POE Codes
The code XTS
What is Too Specific?
1st step to answering multiple choice questions
Do this when you read or listen to a passage for the first time.
What is annotate?
The first step when annotating a passage
What is write the title down and identify the genre?
A question you ask yourself when annotating a Narrative text.
What do we learn about the characters?
What are the characters’ motivations?
What are the conflicts? How are the conflicts resolved?
What lesson(s) does the character(s) learn?
The code XO
What is opposite?
Do this once you fully understand what the question is asking you.
What is go back into the text for evidence that will help you answer the question?
You do this at the end of your annotations.
What is create a central idea endnote?
The 3 genres we annotate for.
What is Narrative, Informational, and Poetry?
A question you ask yourself when annotating an Informational text.
What is the topic?
What are the author’s claims/key ideas about the topic?
The code XNE
What is No Evidence?
What is Process of Elimination or P.O.E Codes?
The code XTG
What is Too General?
The genre of a passage that has lines and stanzas.
A question you ask yourself when annotating a poem.
What is the speaker literally discussing/describing?
What images or visualizations do you see?
The code XNT
What is Not True?
Do this when you are stuck between two answer choices.
What is go back into the text and re-read your evidence?
The reason annotating is important.
What is it gives the reader a deeper/ better understanding of the text?
The genre of a passage that includes dialogue and characters' thoughts and feelings.
What is Narrative?
Two things that are included in a central idea endnote for a Narrative text.
What is summary and theme?
The code XNR
What is Not Relevant?
Do this when you are completely stuck on a question so you don't waste time.
What is mark the question and come back to it later?
Things you physically do to the text when you are annotating a passage.
The genre that refers to the passage as an article and includes information on a topic.
What is Informational?
The central idea endnote for an Informational text.
What is Author's claim?