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Short Responses
Extended Response
Writing Style
Unstick Yourself!
100
True/False: Before reading, you should preview the questions you will write about.
True.
100
Your first sentence should be your.....
Claim.
100
First paragraph is called the....
Introduction.
100
Quotation marks go here when you are using the author's words.
The beginning AND the end of the phrase/sentence.
100
If you don't know how to start your paragraph, start by....
Restating the question.
200
True/False: You don't need an introduction for your extended response if you have a good claim.
False.
200
Claim or not: The character changed in different ways.
NO
200
Last paragraph is called the....
Conclusion
200
This is the part/s of your writing should you reread after you finish.
ALL OF IT!
200
If you can't think of a theme, this is what else you can think of.
The conflict.
300
True/False: Restating the question is a good form of elaboration.
False.
300
You need to include two pieces of....
Evidence
300
This is what the planning page is used for.
Organizing your ideas and claims.
300
This is how you can get the spelling right for the characters, title, and author.
You can copy it from the text/question!
300
If you can't think of a main idea, this is where you can look.
The title, headings, pictures, or topic sentences.
400
True/False: You should add your own thinking to your elaboration.
True.
400
If a paragraph is named in a question, you should:
Go back to it and reread!
400
If the extended response is about two texts, this is how you can organize your essay.
Respond to all bullets in one paragraph for one story, and all bullets in another paragraph for the other story.
400
You should add this word onto every single paragraph on every question.
BECAUSE
400
If you can't think of how a character is feeling, or how a character changed, ask yourself:
Is it positive or negative? Is this good or bad? And go from there...
500
True/False: All of your answers should include the word because.
True!
500
Always _____________ to explain how your claim and evidence are connected.
Elaborate
500
This is what you should do for each bullet.
Write a claim, two pieces of evidence, and an elaboration.
500
If you don't know what a word means in a question, this is what you should do.
cover it up, and just look at the key words in the question (like theme, main idea, point of view, etc.)
500
If you can't think of what to write, ask yourself questions about the topic using the 5 Ws and H, which are:
who, what, where, when, how, and why