Short Response
Once you have completed your plan of attack, what are the first two steps of tackling a short response?
Unpack the prompt
with your
reader’s eyes
and
create an evidence frame
Once you have completed
your plan of attack, what is the first step of tackling an Extended Response?
Unpack the prompt
What is the first step of Plan of Attacking a passage?
Identifying the Genre
and the Thinking Job for the passage
What are 3 superhero moves can you use if you encounter an unknown word in the answer choices?
Go back to the text to look for context clues/embedded definitions
Break the word into parts and use prior knowledge to try and figure out what the word could mean
Try to eliminate all other choices, logically, before choosing the unknown word
What is the first sentence of a short response and
what should it do?
The claim
Answer the questions in the prompt
How long should planning take and what is its purpose?
5-7 minutes
The purpose is to determine how you will organize your essay/
bucket your evidence
Once you have read and gisted a nonfiction article, what do you write at the bottom of the last page?
The teach and authors POV
What superhero moves should you use when answering “Evidence as Answers” questions?
Go back to the text in order to find the particular evidence
What are two ways to present your textual evidence?
Line evidence
Cluster evidence
What must be included in the Introduction Paragraph of an Extended Response Essay?
A thesis statement
What is one reason of gisting paragraphs?
To figure out the paragraph’s connection to the central idea or theme of the text
To provide yourself with a quick reference to help you when you go back to the text to answer the questions
What superhero moves should you use when answering question that ask for the mood or tone of a passage
or
how a person is characterized question?
1) Go back to the text and circle descriptive words about the subject matter
2) Determine if the pattern of words you find is negative or positive
3) Compare the words you circled and decide on a specific emotion that the words convey together
What writing technique can you use to write a short response?
CERER
A body paragraph in an Extended Response is the same format as what?
A short response
What are the Nonfiction thinking jobs?
NF = Who? What? So what?
/Teach? POV?
What are some multiple choice strategies you can use in order to figure out the correct answer to a question?
Process of elimination, etc
What should be included before each piece of evidence in a short response?
Context
How should every excellent essay end?
With a conclusion sentence
When do you label textual evidence in the multiple choice
Plan of Attack process?
After annotating the question, before answer jotting
When a question asks you to take a look at line 27 for example, what should you do first?
Go back to line 27 in order see what it says/ read the sentence before the line and after the line.