🪞 Mirrors & Windows
A story helps you understand the experiences of people whose lives are very different from your own.
What is a window?
This text feature tells readers what a section will be about.
What is a heading?
The "R" in RACCE.
What is Restate?
A text's specific point about a topic.
What is the main idea?
You cite a book by Sarah Johnson from page 15.
What is (Johnson 15)?
Understanding another person's emotions and perspective, even if you have never experienced the same situation.
What is empathy?
Characterization that directly tells the reader a trait is called this.
What is direct characterization?
The two "C's" in RACCE
Context and Cite
Specific information that supports and explains the author's point.
What are supporting details?
You cite a website article with no author and no page numbers.
What is ("First Three Words...")?
A novel reflects your own culture, traditions, and experiences.
What is a mirror?
Themes should be written as this type of statement.
What is a complete sentence?
The Explain section is this many sentences...
3 sentences Minimum
A brief retelling of the most important information from a text.
What is a summary?
You cite a book written by two authors.
What is (Author and Author page #)?
Feeling concern or sorrow for someone who is struggling.
What is sympathy?
A theme should not mention these.
What are specific characters' names?
A sentence starter for Cite
The text states,
The subject a text is mostly about.
What is a topic?
You cite a source with three or more authors.
What is (First Author et al. page #)?
Reading about a refugee family's journey causes a student to better understand challenges they never faced themselves.
What is a window experience?
STEAL stands for...
Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, Looks
This comes at the end of text evidence
in-text citation
The sentence that acts as a roadmap for an essay. The last sentence of the intro paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
Why are in-text citations important?
What is giving credit to sources and avoiding plagiarism?