Leap 2025
Which task is based only on nonfiction texts?
Research Simulation Task
How many sentences should your intro be?
3-5
What is the message or moral of a text?
Theme
Language that uses your five senses to describe things
Imagery
What are the 7 sentences in the 7 sentence format?
-Topic Sentence
-Concrete detail
-Commentary
-Commentary
-Concrete detail
-Commentary
-Commentary
What can the narrative writing ask you to do? (just give me one of the possible three answers)
Continue the story or change the ending
Re-tell the story in another form
Tell the story from a different perspective or point of view
Why should you breakdown a prompt?
To help understand what you are supposed to be writing about.
Which task is based on fictional texts that typically has an essay that asks you to finish a story?
Narrative Writing Task
How many paragraphs should you write for your essay response?
Three or four
What is the series of events in a story?
PLOT
a person, place, or thing, that has larger meaning than itself or represents something else
Symbol
How many sentences should your paragraphs be?
Claim needs to be 1 or 2 sentences.
Evidence needs to be 2 or 3 sentences.
Reasoning needs to be 3 or 4 sentences.
At least 7 sentences.
What are tips for success for LEAP Literary Tasks? (name one)
Include all texts/Use CER method and argue
Pick strong evidence
Explain well
How do you breakdown the background information that is needed?
You bracket it: [Background]
How many sections are there for you to take?
Three
List 3 things you SHOULD do when writing a narrative.
1. Use dialouge
2. Stay realistic to the storyline
3. Use the same characters/ setting
4. Write enough! (25-30 sentences)
5. Have a clear ending!
the author's reason for creating a work; to persuade, inform, explain, entertain or reveal an important truth (think P.I.E.E.)
Author's purpose
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” ― Virginia Woolf
"The ballerina was a feather floating on the stage."
Metaphor
What item is used to help give an example from the text. (From CER)
Evidence
What are tips for strong Research Simulation Task? (Name two for full points. One for half.)
Include all texts/Use CER method and argue
Pick strong evidence
Explain well
What do you do with verbs that you should do for the writing when breaking down a prompt?
Circle the verbs.
Highlight the verbs.
Which task is based on only fictional texts and the essay usually asks you to analyze a literary device or element?
Literary Analysis Task
What should an intext citation include? Hint: (___________ )
Author's last name and page number
What are the three types of irony?
Bonus: explain something about them to me
Dramatic, Situational, Verbal
Verbal- sarcasm
Dramatic- the reader knows something a character does not
Situational- the opposite of what is expected to occur happens
“A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.” ― Thomas Fuller
Personification
What item is used at the beginning of the paragraph. Usually detailing what the paragraph is about and must be proven. (From CER)
Claim!
What can Leap Literary Analysis ask you to do? (Name two for full points)
Impact of word choice
Complex characterization
Text structure
Point of view/cultural experience
How do we mark the requirements of the writing, the requirements that need to be finished for us to get a good grade?
Underline them.
You should allow your self ____ minutes to work on the writing portion
30-40
What should your thesis be about?
What the paper is mostly about, restating the prompt, last sentence
The author's attitude towards a subject
Tone
What are three easy ways to get point on Narrative Writing?
Imagery.
Onomatopoeia.
Dialogue.
What does commentary/reasoning try to accomplish in the 7-sentence format?
Gives the meat of why claim is true.
Connective tissue of Claim and Evidence.
Makes connections using the writer's own thoughts.
What can Research Simulation Task ask you to do?
(name three for full points)
Discuss how ideas and claims are developed
Identify author’s point of view or purpose
Analyze the piece’s argument or claims
Discuss relationship of ideas in texts
Look at information in primary and secondary sources
What is the most important aspect of writing for these texts?
Making a connection.
(If a student says something better or as good is up to teacher discretion)