STAAR Strategies
This strategy is three letters and applicable to multiple choice questions.
-Identify the strategy
-Name the acronyms
Explain its significance
What is PAD.
-Proven; Assumed; Distractor
Identify the figurative language below and the rhyme scheme:
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
What is simile.
A - B - C - B
Identify the major rhetorical appeal and explain its significance:
"Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 50 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best."
-USA Roofing, INC.
What is ethos.
Name this section:
Fast food is delicious, yet dangerous because it leads to obsession and obesity.
What is thesis statement.
Byron can improve the clarity of sentence 4 by changing "it" to —
(3) Some records indicate that Helen of Troy visited the area before the Trojan War. (4) Founded around 700 B.C., it thrived for centuries and then allegedly disappeared into the depths of the ocean.
A the famous Trojans
B the magnificent city
C the extreme wealth
D the historical record
What is (B) the magnificent city.
This strategy is used to analyze speeches and non-fictional texts.
-Identify the strategy
-Name the acronyms
Explain its significance
What is Tic-Tac-Toe speech organizer.
-Speaker; Occasion; Audience; Purpose; Subject; Title; Tone; Figurative Language; Propaganda
Identify the figurative language below and explain its significance in the text:
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
What is alliteration.
Repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds are used to enhance the verse.
Identify the major rhetorical appeal and explain its significance:
"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality."
-Martin Luther King
What is pathos.
Name this section and the letter from HELPS:
Drugs cause harm to the human body.
(E) Britney Spears' drug overdose in 2007.
What is Reason 1 & Example 1.
Name the redundant sentence:
(23) Scientists aren’t sure why Thonis-Heracleion disappeared into the water. (24) There’s no certainty regarding this issue. (25) Some think that a rise in sea level combined with unstable sediment might have been the reason. (26) Others suggest that an earthquake was responsible.
What is sentence 24.
This NEW strategy is used to analyze poetry.
-Identify the strategy
-Name the acronyms
Explain its significance
What is TWIST
-Tone; Word Choice; Imagery; Structure;Theme
Identify the figurative language below and explain it's significance in the text:
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
What is imagery.
The reader's five senses are evoked to create a set of mental images.
Identify the major rhetorical appeal and explain it's significance:
"Notably, since stabilizing in mid-2009, real household spending in the United States has grown in the range of 1 to 2 percent at annual rates, a relatively modest pace. Households' caution is understandable. Importantly, the painfully slow recovery in the labor market has restrained growth in labor income, raised uncertainty about job security and prospects, and damped confidence."
-US Census Bureau
What is logos.
Name this section:
To commence, community college should be free because it reduces student loan debt. Companies such as Sallie Mae target individuals, such as my brother Ken, and make billions of money off high school graduates. Thus, grads are left broke and jobless. This can change with a free Associates degree.
What is FEEL
(F) - First/topic sentence
(E) - Example
(E) - Elaborate
(L) - Link to thesis
What is the most appropriate close (micdrop) to end the essay (after sentence 28).
(28) As the study of the site continues, researchers are learning more and more about the remarkable city of Thonis-Heracleion and the period in which it thrived.
B According to Damian Robinson, director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford, “It is a major city we are excavating.”
C “We are just at the beginning of our research,” Goddio remarked. “We will probably have to continue working for the next 200 years for Thonis-Heracleion to be fully revealed and understood.”
D “The statuettes allow us to examine their belief system and at the same time have wider economic implications,” Oxford researcher Sanda Heinz commented. “
What is (C)
“We are just at the beginning of our research,” Goddio remarked. “We will probably have to continue working for the next 200 years for Thonis-Heracleion to be fully revealed and understood.”
1) List the recommended order of sections for the STAAR assessment.
2) List the amount of time you should spend on each section.
1) Essay (1 hour)
2) Reading (2 hours)
3) Editing & Revising (1 hour)
Identify the figurative language below and explain it's significance in the text:
You see,
As she was dying,
I led each of you to her side,
One by one she scorched you with her radiance.
What is hyperbole.
"Scorched you with her radiance," is used for striking exaggeration.
Identify the 2 major rhetorical appeal and explain it's significance:
"During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world."
-Steve Jobs
What is ethos and pathos.
Name this section and name the acronyms:
Growing up, I always valued a dollar. From high school to college, I worked a minimum of two jobs to maintain my lifestyle. Money is necessary to drive ambition and achievement.
What is HIT
(H) - Hook
(I) - Intro
(T) - Thesis
Which of these sentences could best follow sentence 13 for additional support?
(11) The artifacts they discovered revealed a city as grand as its legend. (12) At the center of the city stood a large temple, just as ancient historians had described. (13) A network of canals and channels stretched out from the temple.
G The remains of more than 60 ships, at least 700 ancient anchors, gold coins, and bronze, lead, and stone weights indicate that the city was a major trading port in the eastern Mediterranean.
H The city was probably an important entry port for trade into Egypt before it sank into the Mediterranean Sea so many centuries ago.
What is (G)
The remains of more than 60 ships, at least 700 ancient anchors, gold coins, and bronze, lead, and stone weights indicate that the city was a major trading port in the eastern Mediterranean.
This strategy is used to compose essay drafts.
-Illustrate the strategy
-Name ALL sections & acronyms
-Explain its significance
What is the Collegiate Cross.
Front: Thesis; Reason 1 & Example 1; Reason 2 & Example 2; Dumping Box
Back: HIT-FEEL-FEEL-CUT
Identify the figurative language below and explain it's significance in the text:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
What is metaphor.
A comparison that is made directly without using like or as.
Hope → feathers
Singing → tune without words
Identify the 2 major rhetorical appeal and explain it's significance:
"You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina...knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."
-Martin Luther King
What is pathos and logos.
Name this section and name the acronyms:
Some people may contend that the voting age should be changed to 16 because teens are maturing faster; however, the voting age should stay at 18 for liability and logical purposes.
What is counter argument & rebuttal.
(CUT it)
Provide a more effective thesis statement for this paper:
(8) As divers sifted through layers of sand and mud, they discovered some extraordinarily well-preserved relics of an ancient city. (9) It was Thonis-Heracleion.
A Before long they realized that they had found the city of Thonis-Heracleion.
B In time they realized that they had actually found what was a very ancient city.
D In the end it just happened to be the place and the city of Thonis-Heracleion.
What is (A)
Before long they realized that they had found the city of Thonis-Heracleion.