Plan of Attack 1
What is the first step of your plan of attack?
Identify the genre through PIN
What is the first thing you do when you receive a multiple choice question?
Cover the answer choices and annotate the question
What is the structure of a short response?
Claim
Evidence
Analysis
What will you see that tells you it is an extended response?
A planning page
How do you separate paragraphs?
Skip a line and indent
What does the P in "PIN" Stand for?
Poetry
What are two text features of a narrative text?
Characters, dialogue, setting, not about real facts or information
What do you need to keep in mind when selecting evidence?
That it matches your claim and you can explain how to connect it to your claim through analysis.
What is the difference between an extended response and a short response?
A short response is one paragraph, an extended response has a least 4 paragraphs
What are two transition phrases you can use to introduce evidence?
"For example"
"In the text it says..."
What is a text feature of an informational text?
Subtitles
Facts
What is an answer jot? Why do we do it?
Writing the answer in your own words. We answer jot because we can use our knowledge of the text and compare our own thinking to the answer choices.
What does it mean to provide analysis?
Explain how the evidence you chose proves your claim.
What is the structure of an extended response?
Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Conclusion
How should you attack a vocabulary in context multiple choice question?
Cover the answer choices
box the vocabulary word
go back and read the word in the text
Answer jot a word that makes sense
Compare your answer jot to the answer choices
What is the thinking job for a narrative text?
Characters
Conflict
Resolution
Setting
Theme
What do you need to keep in mind for a part to whole question?
You need to choose an answer choice that addresses the part AND the whole. Focus on the central idea or theme depending on the genre of the text.
What are two ways you can you make sure you answer all of the questions the prompt is asking?
Annotate the prompt
circle the question marks
What are the components of an introduction?
Hook, including authors' names and title of all texts.
Big claim
What do you need to keep an eye out for in multiple choice questions that ask you: Which evidence is the best example of _________?
The hidden question. You will probably have to answer jot for the central idea or theme, or another hidden question
What do you do when you are done annotating and jisting?
Answer the thinking job:
Write the who/what/so what or CCRST
What is the thinking job for poetry? And what do they mean?
T4 (Topic, Tone, Technique, Theme)
Topic- what the poem is about
Tone- the feelings the author communicates with the reader (ie: sad, carefree, gloomy, adventurous)
Technique- how the author communicates their message (ie: imagery, personification)
Theme- the deeper meaning of the poem, the lesson learned
How many pieces of analysis should you have if you have two pieces of evidence?
Two. Analyze each piece of evidence.
What are the components of a strong body paragraph?
Little claim/topic sentence
Evidence 1 for the little claim (one idea)
Analysis 1
Evidence 2 for the little claim (same idea)
Analysis 2
What are three differences between a theme and a central idea?
Theme is for narrative or poetry, central idea is for informational
Central idea is what mostly happened in the text, theme is a lesson learned
Central idea is specific to the text, theme does not use character names because it can apply to anyone