RACE WRITING
Rephrase this prompt: Compare and Contrast the memoirs Mother Tongue and Born a Crime.
Mother Tongue and Born a Crime have similarities and differences.
Why is annotating important?
Annotating is a reading comprehension strategy that helps you make connections and remember what a text is about.
A nonfiction narrative written from the author's perspective about a facet of their own life.
Memoir
The Author/Narrator of Mother Tongue
Amy Tan
Author/ Narrator of Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Yeah. They are the same and different all at once. They are both memoirs.
Does this answer the prompt to Compare and Contrast MT and BAC? If not what should you do.
No this does not answer the prompt. The student needs to follow the RACE strategy to make a clear, concise, and well formatted answer that includes text evidence and explanation of that evidence.
Highlighting one sentence in every paragraph is what it means to annotate.
No. Highlighting can be a part of annotating but there should be a note or symbol or a key with color coding explaining why that particular sentence was highlighted.
How a work is presented? (IE Novel, Short Story, Painting, Film)
Medium
Mother Tongue is in what medium?
Short Story
Born a Crime is in what medium?
Novel
A quote from the text that supports your answer. It should be introduced and it should be explained.What is this called?
Text evidence
What does it mean to make a connection to the text?
As I am reading, I'm thinking about world events or even personal events that are similar to what I'm reading.
Stories that share similiar styles or subject matter. We get an idea of what we can expect. (Horror, Mystery, Romance...)
Genre
Mother Tongue is in what Genre?
Memoir
Trevor Noah's Born A Crime is in the memoir genre. Given that information before you ever read a word you knew that you could expect...
A non-fiction narrative about an aspect of the Author's life.
"Some educators argue that students can't afford to miss more school this year - even when it snows" (Cray 1).
What is this (C) CITING EVIDENCE sentence missing?
This citing evidence example is missing an introduction to the prompt.
My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.
Make a note for this excerpt that explains what the author means.
Amy Tan realizes as she is speaking that she speaks English differently with her mother than she does with this group.
The perspective the story is told from. It could be a character in the story or an outside narrator. Sometimes the reader becomes a character in the story. This is called...
Point of View
1st person uses first-person pronouns.
2nd person addresses the reader and uses You.
3rd person can be limited or omniscient; this form uses 3rd person pronouns.
"My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. "
What POV is this?
1st Person
After finishing primary school at H.A. Jack, I started grade eight at Sandringham High School.
What POV?
1st person
Cyber school students should have snow days. The Atlantic argues, "snow days' primary purpose has become bringing children joy." This shows cyber students should still have snow days.
Why isn't this a good EXPLANATION sentence?
This isn't a good explanation because it doesn't explain why the evidence shows students should still have snow days.
When you guess what is going to happen in a passage or ask a question and then keep this in mind as you are reading and look for evidence to support your thoughts this is called..
Making predictions/asking questions and finding the answers in the readingl
Expressed in one full sentence. It is what the author wants you to know about a topic and can be traced through the development of the protagonist.
Theme
Express in a sentence one of the Theme's of Mother Tongue
The challenges of navigating language and the perceptions people have of you based on your ability to speak their language.
The relationship between 1st generation Americans and their parents as the children straddle two cultures.
Trevor Noah's book Born A Crime covers a series of events from his childhood and continuing on to adulthood. Why is his book considered a memoir and not an autobiography?
The topic of the book is how is life was influenced by Apartheid and he shares his experiences as a child of mixed race during and after apartheid.