Text Evidence
The point of text evidence
What is to support and prove your answer to others through writing?
2 of the 3 reasons why an author might write something
What is to inform, to persuade, or to entertain (must have 2 of 3)?
Using elements from the story to make a logical guess as to what happens next
What is an inference?
Malala's problem, in I am Malala and what she did about it
The Taliban wouldn't let girls go to school; Malala wrote a diary about her education for the world to see
The abbreviation for this strategy is TQ
What is Tough Question?
This excerpt from Speech to the Young:
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
Shows this theme
What is to live in the present/live for the process?
The person/people that an author makes something for
Who is the audience?
The word spectator means a person who watches at a show, game, or other event. It can be inferred that the latin root, spect means this
What is "to look," "to see," "to behold," or "to watch"?
Jordan's problem from New Kid
What is he felt lonely and alone because his Grandpa moved, and he felt like he had to act different with his new friends at his new school?
This signpost looks at the differences between situations or scenes
What is Contrasts and Contridictions?
How does the scene where Gran'pa describes Jordan's favorite foods build the central idea of the text?
Gran'pa's story is a metaphor about Jordan's two friends getting along with each other
The reason why an author might write an argument
What is to persuade?
If that latin root ob- means against, what can the definition of obstacle be inferred to be in the following passage.
"This is when I learned that the obstacles in our lives can only do one of two things: stop us dead
in our tracks, or force us to get creative."
Something that goes against progress
The point of most tension in a story; where the turning point occurs
What is the climax?
This strategy is exposed when the author says something like "I remember when" or "last time I..."
What is Memory Moment
Events that take place during this part of the plot diagram often build to the main idea of the text, much like tension also increases
What is the rising action?
The reason why an author might write a story
What is to entertain?
You can make this inference about your teacher based on their room
Answers will vary; Teacher's discretion
Another way to talk about the theme of a story
What is the central or main idea?
This signpost refers to when a character has a moment in which they make a big realization about the conflict in their story
What is "Aha Moment"
The theme for this unit is never giving up. What are two examples from the unit text that show this theme?
Answers will vary; teacher discretion
The reason why an author might write an informational piece
What is to inform?
This can be inferred from this scene in The First Day of School:
Don't you know anything? Don't you know it's harder for them than us? Don't you know Daddy didn't go to the mine this morning? They laid him off on account of us?
The father gave up his job so that John and Audrey could go to school. Audrey feels like this sacrifice needs to be made worthwhile
This motivated John to go to school with Audrey in The First Day of School
What is Audrey telling John that their father lost his job so that they could have the opportunity to go to school?
This signpost occurs when Jordan's Grandpa tells him a metaphorical story in New Kid that gives Jordan advice on his problem
What is Words of the Wiser?