Poetry
This is the strategy you will use on the STAAR for poetry
TPCASTT
Annotate each paragraph
This is the strategy to be used for paired passages
TCCT
Words in italics that reveal how actors should move or the way they should speak their lines.
Stage direction
The time students are allowed for the STAAR test
4 hours (240 minutes)
Words that appeal to the five senses in vivid description
Sensory Imagery
When student's annotate nonfiction passages, they write this for each paragraph
Main Idea
In TCCT, this step is about comparing the people involved in each passage.
Characters
The high point of tension in the story; everything builds up to this moment.
Climax
This figurative language makes something non-human seem like a human.
Personifcation
This is what students should do when they see sensory imagery questions about a specific paragraph.
Go back and underline the imagery in the paragraph.
Organizational pattern that shows how one thing impacts another thing. Such as how dress code affects student performance.
Cause and Effect
This is what TCCT stands for.
Topic Character Conflict Theme
In order to find the theme of a passage, it helps to understand how characters...
Change
This point of view limits the narrators knowledge to one specific character
3rd person limited
The most important part of TPCASTT and the meaning beyond the literal.
Connotation
On summary questions, we should use BME but also...
the most important details
Which category from TCCT: Both Monster and Sweet Lemon Brown discuss relationships with fathers.
Topic
The two things for which you will annotate when you see a fiction passage on the STAAR next week.
Conflict and character changes
If you were doing TCCT for the Good Will Hunting clip we watched, this would be written for Conflict
Sean needs to get through to Will. Or Sean is trying to get Will to open up.
The connotation behind the phrase, "This relationship is a heavy weight, dragging me down to the depths of my soul."
The relationship is a burden that is causing stress and making the person sad and reflective
This organizational pattern was used in "Can Writers Predict the Future"
Main Idea
Which part of TCCT: Both The Telltale and Monster suggest that the mistakes we make in the past can haunt us in the future.
Theme
In a fictional passage, this point of view is evident when the narrator does not know any of the characters' thoughts or feelings.
Third person objective
Relationships between family