Text Evidence
When you use information directly from a passage to support an answer, you are using this.
What is text evidence?
The main point an author communicates about a non-fiction topic is called this.
Cause and ___________
What is Cause and Effect?
Katherine Switzer became famous for participating in this race.
What is the Boston Marathon?
This word means lonely, sad, or abandoned in appearance.
Forlorn
This prolific Science Fiction writer wrote the short story, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"?
Who is Ray Bradbury?
True or False:
Good text evidence should directly support the claim you are making.
What is true?
Which belongs in an objective summary?
A. Your opinion
B. Every single detail
C. The central idea and the one or two most important details.
D. Whether or not you liked the passage
What is C?
In literature, RL.7.3 asks you to analyze how elements such as characters, setting, and ________ interact.
What is plot/events?
During the race, Katherine Switzer faced this major obstacle while running.
A race official attempted to remove her from the race because she was a woman.
This word means empty, deserted, or bleak.
What is desolate?
The planet where most of the story takes place.
What is Mars?
Which is stronger evidence?
A. "I think Katherine was brave."
B. "Race officials attempted to physically remove Katherine Switzer from the course."
C. "Running seems difficult."
D. "Katherine probably practiced a lot."
What is B?
What does objective mean when writing a summary?
What is based on the text without personal opinions or judgements.
Term for the series of major actions in a passage that begins with the inciting incident and ends with the resolution.
What is the plot?
These character traits are BEST demonstrated by Switzer continuing the race despite opposition.
To gradually become smaller or fewer.
What is dwindle?
Initially, Harry Bittering wants very much to do this.
What is return to Earth?
After providing text evidence in a written response, you should do this.
What is explain how the evidence supports your answer/claim?
A passage describes Katherine Switzer entering the Boston Marathon, facing resistance, finishing the race, and helping change opportunities for female runners. Give a reasonable central idea.
What is Katherine Switzer challenged discrimination against women in running and helped create change through perserverance?
You must explain how the events, ideas, or individuals affect or influence what another. You must explain the connection.
In Earthlings, Meet Venus, by explaining how one scientific idea leads researchers to investigate another possibility, which standard are you primarily practicing?
What is RL.7.3?
To gradually move back or father away.
What is recede?
As the story progresses, this happens to the Bittering family and other Earth Settlers.
What is they gradually transform and adapt to Mars, losing much of their former Earth identity?
A student gives a correct answer but uses a quotation that has nothing to do with the answer. What RI.7.1 skill does the student need to improve?
What is selecting relevant text evidence?
Explain the difference between a topic and a central idea.
A topic is one or two words that states what the passage is about; a central idea is a complete sentence stating the most important overall point/message that the author communicates about that topic.
In Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, Mars changes the Bittering family physically and psychologically. What type of interaction should an RL.7.3 response analyze here?
What is the interaction or connection between setting and character?
When comparing First Woman to Wear a Boston Bib Races Again with Going, Going Gone, what should a strong paired-text response include?
A comparison of the texts' ideas supported with evidence/details from both texts.
Double Trouble
Give the correct answer to BOTH definitions:
1. The process of adjusting to new conditions.
2. The process of becoming absorbed into another culture or group.
1. Adaptation
2. Assimilation
How does the Martian setting help develop the plot?
The strange Martian environment gradually changes the settlers physically and mentally, driving their transformation and the major events in the story.