STAAR and the R.A.C.E. method
Restate the prompt as a statement; Answer the question; Cite text evidence; Explain.
What is the R.A.C.E. Method?
The main character of the book who does not see Mango street as her home.
Who is Esperanza?
The person or thing completing an action.
What is a subject?
An observation the author makes about either how people act or their society.
What is a theme?
Confused and disconcerted
What is discombobulated?
A statement, normally found at the beginning of an essay, informing the reader of what you will be discussing.
What is a thesis statement?
The girl in the first eleven vignettes who has a boyfriend in Puerto Rico and hopes to get a better life by marrying rich.
Who is Marin?
The thing or person that performs an action.
What is a verb?
The emotions/feelings an author or speaker expresses towards their subject matter.
What is Tone?
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
What is arbitrary?
You must use the _______ wording of the question in the sentence when restating it as a statement.
What is "the exact wording"?
The girl in the story who Esperanza idealizes because all the boys like her.
Who is Sally?
The person or thing that an action is done to in a sentence.
What is a direct object?
A reversal of roles.
Example: Esperanza points out that outsiders feel unsafe in her neighborhood, but she feels the same way when she is in a different neighborhood.
What is irony?
a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
What is stoic?
Quotes or summaries from the passage that are used to support your thoughts.
What is text evidence?
Esperanza wants to return to Mango street one day so that she can inspire change in the community.
Why does Esperanza want to return to Mango street?
All sentences that contain a subject, verb and direct object are called independent clauses, but a clause missing a S, V, or D.O. is called a __________________.
What is a dependent clause?
What is a symbol?
to show or guide someone to their seat or to a place.
What is usher?
Restate the question below into a statement:
What is the greatest Christmas movie of all time?
What is "the greatest Christmas movie of all time is"?
These objects represent Esperanza's Maturity from a girl into a woman in vignettes such as "Chanclas," "The Family of little feet," and "Sire."
What are shoes?
A semicolon (;) is used to join two ____________ clauses of the same content.
What is an independent clause?
The use of the 5 senses (sight, touch, sound, taste, smell) to create a visual image in the reader's head.
Extremely Stupid or foolish
What is asinine?