Let’s SLAM our Extend Response

What are we doing today? Learn the SLAM method for writing an extended response. Practice making connections between text.

What does it mean to SLAM dunk?

SLAM S L A M tate part of the question in your first sentence. ocate evidence from the story. “In the story its says…” “This proves …..” dd your own ideas. “In my opinion…” “I can relate to this…” ake a meaningful conclusion or connection.

Are you ready to SLAM an extended response?

Remember …. Always read the question before beginning!! In both poems, both speakers discussed how they feel when it is snowing outside. What word would you use to describe both of their feelings. Use a total of 3 examples from the poems to explain your response. Describe how both speakers feel about snow. Choose one word that explains their feelings. Include three details from the poems. Include an introduction and a conclusion Write neatly and clearly Use only the space provided.

When All the World Is Full of Snow I never know just where to go, when all the world is full of snow. I do not want to make a track, not even to the shed and back. I only want to watch and wait, while snow moths settle on the gate, and swarming frostflakes fill the trees with billions of albino bees. I only want myself to be as silent as a winter tree, to hear the swirling stillness grow, N.M. Bodecker

tate part of the question in your first sentence. In both poems, both speakers discussed how they feel when it is snowing outside. What word would you use to describe both of their feelings.

L ocate evidence from the story. “In the story its says…” “This proves …..” In “When All the World is Full of Snow” In “New Year Snowbird”

dd your own ideas. “In my opinion…” “I can relate to this…”

ake a meaningful conclusion or connection.

Did Lexi slam her response?

Tell me how to SLAM your extended response?

Day 2: SLAM Your Extended Response

Let’s Review: How do you Slam your response?

Before Reading Preview the Questions

Reread poems then answer questions then students to individual breakout rooms to work on responses.

In both poems, both speakers discussed how they feel when it is snowing outside. What word would you use to describe both of their feelings. Use a total of 3 examples from the poems to explain your response. SLAM Describe how both speakers feel about snow. Choose one word that explains their feelings. Include three details from the poems. Include an introduction and a conclusion