TAR
This is what the acronym TAR stands for.
Textual Analysis Response
How many sources are you required to quote?
3 (at least 2 in your BP and 1 in your CC)
These features (list at least 2) indicate that a text is fiction.
- dialogue
- character names
- unrealistic references (supernatural, fantasy, etc.)
- accept all other answers
These features (list at least 2) indicate that a text is nonfiction.
- headings
- table of contents
- dates, numbers, statistics
- photographs
- maps
- etc.
This is the difference between the literal and deeper meaning of poetry.
literal - right there, obvious, what does the author say?
deeper - inferences, connections, what does the author mean/wan the reader to understand?
This is the purpose of the topic sentence.
To introduce your reader to the topic of your paragraph - or what it will mostly be about.
claim
This is one way to identify the central idea (multiple responses will be accepted).
- identify the main idea
- identify the lesson learned
- identify the most important point the author makes
- identify what the author says about a subject
This is another name for the subject in a nonfiction text.
topic
Robert Frost
To help your reader understand where the quote fits into the text.
You've read 3 out of the 4 texts but they all seem to support one side. This is the advice you need to give yourself.
Keep reading. You need a source that will prove the opposite side in order to earn above a 3.
This is a literary device that is used to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
characterization
These are some of the nonfiction topics we explored in ELA this year.
- group think
- cancel culture
- Cotes
- etc.
personification
ARGH - I don't understand this text! This is the thinking job to use when a fiction text feels crazy hard! This thinking job helps you make sense of the text.
C (character)
P (problem)
S (solution)
LL (lesson learned)
This is the highest score you can earn if you only cite 2 texts.
Level 3 - booooooooooo :(
This would be an absurd scenario. This WILL NOT be any of you.
This is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
tone
This term describes the perspective the author is writing from.
point of view
This is the author of Ms. Chesler's favorite childhood poet. He wrote "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out!"
Shel Silverstein
The analysis in the tar proves this.
The thesis - how the literary device develops the central idea.
This is the full and complete structure for a (describe 1) 4-paragraph or 5-paragraph argument essay.
4 para: Intro, Body Paragraph (TBEABEAR), Counterclaim/Rebuttal, Conclusion
5 para: Intro, Body, Body, Counterclaim/Rebuttal, conclusion
List 8 literary devices :) Challenge - YOU CAN DO IT!
Nonfiction writers write for this reason(s). List at least 2.
- to inform
- to persuade
- to explain
- to amuse
- to describe
- etc.
This is the difference between mood and tone.
Mood = what the readers feels
Tone = the author’s attitude