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Written Response:
- READ the prompt and make sure you understand what it is asking you to write about.
- Make sure you use an organizational structure for your responses – RACES, TIDIDE, SLAM – anyone works.
R – Restate the topic (Include title, author, topic, and analysis of the topic)
A – Answer the prompt – make sure your topic sentence answers the prompt – add another
sentence if necessary.
C – Cite textual evidence from the reading selection – Remember to embed & 6 words or less is
Best. HINT: If you remove the parenthesis and the sentence makes sense you have done it
correctly.
E – Explain how the evidence supports your topic
REPEAT C & E YOU MUST ALWAYS HAVE 2 PIECES OF EVIDENCE
S –Summary Statement of your analysis – The SO WHAT? The HOW? The WHY? …
- NEVER write in first person. – EX. I believe, I think, …
- NEVER use contractions
- ALWAYS write in present tense about literature you are responding to for a prompt.
- ALWAYS reread your response and check if you did the following:
• Introduce the topic clearly, provide a focus, and organize information in a way that makes sense.
• Use information from the passage(s) so that your essay includes important details.
• Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations, or other information and examples related
to the topic.
• Identify the passages by title or number when using details or facts directly from the passages.
• Develop your ideas clearly and use your own words, except when quoting directly from the passages.
• Use appropriate and varied transitions to connect ideas and to clarify the relationship among ideas and
concepts.
• Use clear language and vocabulary.
• Establish and maintain a formal style.
• Provide a conclusion that supports the information presented.
• Check your work for correct usage, grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
For an Argumentative Response:
The student’s response is a well-developed argument that develops and supports claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence based on text as a stimulus.
• Effectively introduces claim(s), acknowledges and counters opposing claim(s), and engages the audience
• Uses an organizational strategy to establish clear relationships among claim(s), counterclaim(s), reasons,
and relevant evidence
• Uses specific and well-chosen facts, details, definitions, examples, and/or other information from sources to
develop claim(s) and counterclaim(s) fully and fairly and to point out strengths and limitations of both while
anticipating the audience’s knowledge and concerns
• Uses words, phrases, and clauses that effectively connect the major sections of the text and clarify
relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and
counterclaim(s)
• Uses and maintains a formal style and objective tone that is appropriate for task, purpose, and audience
• Provides a strong concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented
What is covered on the EOC Grammar and Editing section(listed in order from most often seen to least):
- Verb Tense/Subject-Verb Agreement
- Comma
- Word Choice (replace this word with that word)
- Spelling
- Homophones
- Clarity
- Fragment
- Apostrophe related (plurals or possessive)
- Semicolons (usually in relation to clause combining)
- Capitalization
- Plurals
- How does the author/What effect/Purpose/Why did the author
- What should be added to ______
- Context clues
- Recognize the run-on
- Pronoun case or agreement
- What detail does ______
- Combine sentences to reduce wordiness
- Hyphens (spelling related mostly)
- Parallel structure
- Colons
These other things listed seem to be hit or miss items. In other words, useful to know to get that 4, but may not be on all tests:
- Double negatives
- adjective/adverb (choose which to use)
- End mark punctuation
- Quotation Marks
- Contractions
- Who/Whom
- Transition words
- Audience
- Abbreviations