Habits
What is the first thing you do when you see a multiple choice question?
Markup the key words in the question
What does the word chastise mean ?
To rebuke or reprimand severely. (Scold, punish)
4 !!!!!!!!!
Name the 4Cs
Characterization
Change
Conflict/ Resolution
Craft
What is another way of saying central idea?
Main idea / what it's mostly about
What's the last step of POE?
Slash the trash !
What is the prefix of “deindividuation” ? What does it mean?
De= the opposite of
How should your essay be structed ? (think about the student samples Ms. G and Ms.Kelly showed in class)
Indent your paragraphs, transition words at the beginning and DO NOT skip a line when starting your new paragraph.
What is the formula for Author's Claim?
Opening Claim+ Subclaim+Subclaim+Shifts=Author Claim
What do we look for to help us find the central idea of a text?
Repeated language/ ideas
What does every question except a Part B question need?
Prediction
When you see a unfamiliar word in a text, what should you do ?
Read the context before and after the word.
What are the components on an introductions? Sentence by sentence
S1= Hook
S2= Summary of first text
S3= Summary of second text
S4= Thesis statement
If a text genre is Nonfiction, what will be your Endnote?
Author's Claim
What is the repeated idea?
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fish, reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk like other mammals
Dolphins are mammals that live in water.
What should you do if a multiple choice question ask you about a specific paragraph in the text?
Go back to the text and put the question number next to the paragraph.
What does the prefix "re" mean ?
re= to do again
Should your essay be an ANEZ or ANEZNEZ? Why?
ANEZNEZ because each body paragraphs needs two pieces of evidence.
What is the topic and genre of this passage?
Why Are Parents Banning Books?
By Finlo Rohrer, BBC News, Washington, September 2010
In the US more and more parents are pressing schools and libraries to withdraw books with bad language or sexual content. But should children's books be restricted in this way?
Topic: Debate on why or why not parents want to ban books
Genre: Journalistic Non-Fiction
What it the repeated idea below?
In England, on Salisbury Plain, about seventy-five miles from London, stand the ruins of an astronomical tool that was built long ago. This tool is Stonehenge. It is a complicated structure of giant stone pillars and slabs. Stonehenge was built in three phases. The building began around 2600 B.C. It was completed in about 1400 B.C.—some twelve hundred years later. Stonehenge was used for religious ceremonies. But it was more than a temple—it was also a giant calendar.
Stonehenge is a ancient and unknown structure.
When you are stuck between two possible answer choices, what visual habit should you do ?
Put a dot or a marker next to the possible answer choice. (magic maybe)
Use the word writhing in a sentence
P1= Transition word
P2=thesis restated
P3= Bigger message learned
What 4C and figurative language is used?
Mrs. Price tried to blame me and say it’s my sweater but all I can think is, Not mine, not mine, not mine, but Mrs. Price is already turning to page thirty-two, and math problem number four. I don't know why but all of a sudden I'm feeling sick inside, like the part of me that's three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven.
4C= Conflict
Fig Lang= repetition and simile
PART A: Which of the following best describes the central idea of the text? (CENTRAL IDEA)
A. Limitations on an individual’s environment or role has no connection to their changes in
behaviors or attitudes.
B. When restricted to a specific environment and role, people are unlikely to conform and instead
display behaviors that are aligned to their personality.
C. People often pretend to behave in the manner of the role in which they are assigned, even if
they disagree with the behaviors or attitudes associated with their role.
D. When restricted to a specific environment and role, people are likely to conform and to display
behaviors that may be counter to their personality.
D