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What should you do if you are asked to contrast?
Step #1 of the SRP includes:
previewing the text (genre, genre frames, and title)
Stories based on a author's imagination is known as
Fiction
Once you read the text, Our thinking frame questions form this big idea!
The criteria for a short response question includes...
-write a strong claim.
-include relevant evidence to support claim
- explain evidence
What should you do if you are asked to describe?
You should tell the characteristics.
As you read the text, you should complete step #2 of the SRP. What is step #2 of the SRP?
Read and jot the main idea.
Contains verses, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes
Poetry
What are the thinking frames for poety?
What is the literal and deepest meaning?
What should you do if you are asked to explain?
You should tell your answer and give reasons, details, facts, or examples.
You should ask yourself these two questions when you are investing in the question
What is the question asking me in my own words?
What is my plan to answer the question?
Biographies, autobiographies, and speeches
Informational/Nonfiction
What is the thinking frames for informational text?
what is the topic
what is the text teaching me about this topic?
what is the author's point of view?
What should you do if you are asked to evaluate?
You should make a judgment based on evidence.
What should you do if you are asked to conclude?
You should show your understanding of the overall idea of the text.
How should you "work through the question"? (name the process)
Cover the answer choices, invest in the question, find and mark evidence in the text, and come up with an idea that answers the question in your head.
advertisements, e-mails, online information, televised news, and documentaries
Media
What are the thinking frames for narrative text?
Who are the characters? What is the problem/solution? what is the lesson learned?
Mr. ________ and Ms. ___________ are the coaches of the 2019-2020 Excel Upper Basketball team
McCray and Life
What should you do if you are asked to persuade?
You should convince someone by giving reasons.
Preview the text, read and jot the central idea, work through the question, check your answer.
cast of characters, dialogue, scenes, settings, set directions
Drama
The criteria for a strong (2/2) main idea includes:
the deepest meaning that is supported by the text, places the idea in context, and is accurate.
All annotations and jots should be related to...
the genre frame questions