NJSLA Basics
These are the tasks that you must be familiar with for the NJSLA.
What are the RST, Literary Analysis, and Narrative tasks?
These are the number of sources that appear on the Research Simulation task.
What are three sources?
These are both the number of sources that appear on a Literary Analysis Task and the number of Sources you are asked to use in your Literary Analysis Essay.
What are two?
If you are asked to write from a different character's POV for the Narrative task, it's EASIEST to write in what "person" POV?
What is first person?
These are the minimum number of paragraphs you must compose for any NJSLA writing task.
What are four?
This NJSLA Writing task is concerned with you synthesizing findings of nonfiction texts.
What is the Research Simulation task?
"A, N, T" stands for
What is:
attention grabber
necessary background information
thesis statement
Unlike the RST which does not use these sources, these types of sources will appear on a Literary Analysis Task. HINT: genre
What are fictional texts?
This, which is usually found in the last sentence of the introductory paragraph, is a term used to describe the main or central idea of your argument for both the RST and the Literary Analysis task.
What is the thesis statement?
When you encounter "Part A" and "Part B" questions, this is the best strategy for tackling them.
What is read BOTH parts A & B before selecting your answers?
This NJSLA task is concerned with you understanding and creating a story.
What is the Narrative task?
The Research Simulation Task will ask you to read and synthesize only these types of texts.
What are nonfiction texts?
These are the different ways narrators tell stories. HINT: Choose the two most common ways.
What are 1st person or 3rd person?
This, also known as a claim, usually appears in the first sentence of the body paragraphs of your essay.
What is the topic sentence/answer from RACES?
For the RST and LAT, you should do this to ensure you answer the constructed/essay question correctly. State at least TWO things.
Read the prompt more than once BEFORE reading the passage. Underline the important what you have to do.
Highlight text evidence in the passage that you will use in your essay
Take time to plan
This NJSLA task is concerned with you interpreting the meaning of fictional texts?
What is the Literary Analysis Task?
What are the types of sources you may receive on the RST?
Two texts and one video
In literature, this refers to the major issue or problem that characters in a story must overcome.
What is the conflict?
This is taking exactly from the text to support your answer/claim.
What is evidence?
Before you begin reading, what is the first step you should take and why?
What is read the prompt to guide your reading and annotations
Name 3 compositional risks to include to push your essay from a 3 to a 4.
Add figurative language
Higher level transition words
Advanced vocabulary
Vary sentence structure
You should include the titles of the sources in these parts of the essay.
Introduction paragraph
Body paragraph about the source
In literature, this refers to the message of the story.
What is theme?
These are three possible things you may be asked to do for the Narrative Writing Task.
What are continue the story, create an alternate ending, or change the POV?
To ensure I still have a job next year, what should you do on the NJSLA?
Use all the strategies she taught you and DO YOUR BEST WORK EVER!!!!