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Narrative Writing
Informative Writing
Argumentative Writing
Text Dependent Analysis
Reading
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When organizing your thinking for a narrative prompt, you should you this kind of planner and the elements of a story.
What is plot map? What is character, setting, plot (including events that are related to a problem) and theme?
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These are two ways to make your writing more formal.
What is avoid contractions, use transitions to connect ideas, write number out that are less than 100 and avoid using "I" or "you"?
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When you think about a argumentative body paragraph, this is the bakery item it should look like and why.
What is a piece of layer cake because your evidence is the cake and the frosting is the reasoning: you should alternate evidence and reasoning?
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This is what you should use to start your essay and your thesis statement to ensure that you answer the question.
What is the words from the question?
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These are the steps that you should take when you are reading for a text dependent analysis.
What is read once to get the "gist" of the passage and determine what it's all about, next read the question and then read the passage again highlighting evidence that helps your support your answer to the question?
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This is how stories tend to go.
What is introduction (introduce the main character, setting, problem), rising action or tension (things happen that are related to the problem), climax (turning point) and resolution?
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This is the planner that you should use when organizing for your informative prompt.
What is boxes and bullets?
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When adding your thinking, these are some questions that you can ask yourself and some ways to add your thinking
What is why did I include this information and "this might be important because", "it must have been", "this shows", "this proves", "this is an example of", "as you can see"?
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You should use quotes to support your thesis statement,these are two phrases that you can use to set up quotes from the text.
What is "according to the text", "In the Article", "the text states", or "in the passage"?
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These are the types of multiple choice questions that you could see on the PSSA question and answer part. (Think QAR)
What is "a right there", " a think and search", "an author" and me" and a "on my own"?
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This is what you should use in your writing to show how much time when by.
What are transitions?
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This are the components of a good introduction paragraph.
What is hook the reader (by highlighting something important or interesting, a quote, or contrast or describe a scene), name your thesis, tell the reader the reasons that you will be discussing in your essay and transition between the ideas in your paragraph and end with a concluding sentence.
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When organizing your thinking for an argumentative prompt, this is the type of planner you should use.
What is an introduction, boxes and bullets for body paragraphs and a conclusion?
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This is the planner that you should use for a text dependent analysis body paragraphs.
What is boxes and bullets?
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These are three of the text structures that we have learned about.
What is "compare and contrast", "cause and effect", "problem and solution", "sequence" and "description".
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This three ways that narrative writers develop characters.
What is characters are introduced slowly? What is characters interact with other characters? What is characters change? What is through characters inner thought and dialogue? What is characters are predictable?
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These are components of a concluding paragraph.
What is a summary of all that came before, remind the reader of an interesting part and leave the reader wanting more with a strong thought or feeling?
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This is what you should use when you are changing from one subject or idea to another in argumentative paragraphs and throughout the whole essay and this is an example of them.
What are transitions and "for example", "the first reason", "the second", "the third", "in addition", "further more", "next", "Finally" and "as you can see"?
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This is the structure of your introduction and concluding paragraphs.
What is name your thesis statement, state reasons to support your thesis statement and a concluding sentence. In a conclusion, you concluding statement should leave the reader with a strong thought or feeling.
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When you talk to the text, these are somethings that you can write/annotate.
What are "my thinking", "summary of what you read", "paraphrase what you read", "inferences", "confirmations", "wonderings"?
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This when you should start a new paragraph and how you can elaborate in your narrative.
What is when you have a change in setting, subject or speaker? What is add more to the heart of the story, including dialogue, actions and inner thoughts (only to parts that move the story along)
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This is a structure of the body paragraphs.
What is thesis or topic sentence and the reason that will be discussed in the paragraph, evidence to back up your thinking, reasoning to support your evidence and say why it is important and a concluding sentence?
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This is the structure of a paragraph in informative and argumentative writing and this is how you would describe a topic sentence.
What is a topic sentence, supporting sentences (evidence), reasoning, concluding sentence and a vague and general statement that does not include facts; it is a thesis statement?
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In addition to adding quotes and facts from the text, writers of a text dependent analysis should also add this to explain why their evidence is important and these are some ways to add it.
What is reasoning/thinking and "this is important because", "this shows", "this proves", "this is an example of"?
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When trying to summarize or determine the main idea, these are things that you should think about.
What is "who", "what", "when", "where", and "why"? Why was it written? Why is it important? Who wrote this or who is it about? When did it take place? Where did it take place?