TDAS
How do you start a TDA?
Title and the author in a sentence.
Survival, friendship, and love are examples of topics or themes in a story?
Topics
What does analyze mean?
Look carefully, explain, etc...
What must you do before every paragraph?
indent
The passage features a grandmother creating a story for her grandchildren. Write an essay analyzing why the Grandmother's story is important to the children. Use evidence from the passage to support your response.
Look at the above TDA Prompt, what is the task?
The second sentence: Write an essay analyzing why the Grandmother's story is important to the children.
What is theme?
The message or lesson in the story.
The time and place in which a story occurs
setting
True or False: The word "I" is always capitalized.
True
How do you turn the task into a statement?
Write an essay analyzing why the grandmother's story is important to the children.
The grandmother's story is important to the children.
The typed of narrator in the story who uses pronouns like "I, me, or we."
First person
Words that have opposite meaning are called
antonyms
Eating, jumping, and farting are all what part of speech?
verbs
What does TDA stand for?
Text Dependent Analysis
When the passage mentions something from another book, story, movie, typically something from the Bible.
Example: "I am like David fighting Goliath."
Allusion
The sequence of events that make up a story
plot
Pronouns replace what?
nouns
Read the following prompt:
The author makes the point that "detective work" is involved in cave science. Write an essay analyzing how this point is supported throughout the passage to support your response. Use evidence from the passage to support your response.
How do you turn the task into a statement/answer?
"Detective Work" is involved in cave science.
Descriptive language that uses the five senses (hearing, sight, etc.)
Imagery
To use information from the passage and what you already know is to
Infer
You use this punctuation mark to cite evidence.
Quotation Marks " "