What can you do if you don't understand the prompt?
Do/What chart, OR attempt to restate the prompt in your own words
100
What is Mr. Charchalis' favorite sport to watch?
Football
200
Which sentence tells the most important idea of paragraph 3?
What is main idea?
200
Has lines and stanzas
What is a poem
200
What does the A in RACE stand for
Answer Every question
200
How many paragraphs should there be in your extended response?
At least one paragraph for each bullet point
200
What is Mr. Charchalis' favorite sport to play?
Tie: Flag football or basketball
300
How does the illustration help you understand the story?
What is text features?
300
Based on a historical time period, but the dialogue and and events have been fabricated
What is historical nonfiction?
300
What does the C in RACE stand for
Cite evidence
300
Should you use direct citations in your extended response? If you do, how should you cite evidence?
Yes. By using either paragraph numbers or line numbers, whichever one is given.
300
When Mr. Charchalis was in 8th grade, who was his favorite author?
J.K. Rowling
400
Why does Keno's mother smile?
What is cause and effect?
400
Teaches a lesson, has animals as characters, sometimes explains nature
What is fable/ folktale
400
What does the R in RACE stand for
Explain every claim
400
How do we figure out the theme or central message?
Look at the end. Think about what the characters learn, and what the author wants us to learn.
400
What is Mr. Charchalis' favorite kind of music?
Jazz
500
Which word best describes the bird?
What is character inference?
500
A made up story about a person's modern life, has a problem, solution, setting, and lesson that could really happen.
What is realistic fiction?
500
When explaining your answer, what's the most important word to include?
"because"
500
When are you finished?
After every bullet point has been addressed with its own paragraph, two pieces of evidence have been given for each bullet point, and an explanation of how each piece of evidence answers each bullet point.