1. Free-Reading! (5 th period only) Go ahead and grab your book from the shelf in the back! We will have free reading for about 20 MINUTES this morning

2. Warm Up On your way in, please grab a post-it note and sign our social contract up on the front board. Even if you don’t sign it, you are still held to those expectations! If you want to ADD something to the social contract, get another post-it note from me, write your suggestion on it, and stick it to the contract!

3. Objective TLW identify and evaluate text evidence for relevancy and effectiveness using a formative assessment and student models.

4. TE Quiz Write your name on your post-it and number down the side 1-4. On each of the next slides, there will be a question and 4 answer choices about selecting correct text evidence. Write your answer choice beside the appropriate number You may use your “Everyday Use” text, your stick figure, or your Short Answer Practice handout

5. 1 Which of the following quotes show that Mama is independent? a)“I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down.” – line 88 b)“I used to think she hated Maggie, too.” – Line 72 c)“I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing…” – line 33-34 d)“[Dee is] a woman now, though sometimes I forget.” – line 61

6. 2 “Have you ever seen a lame animal…sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him?” – Line 54. This quote shows that Mama is a)Naïve b)Heartless c)Forthright d)Unhappy

7. 3 Which of the following quotes shows that Mama is old-fashioned? a) “After I tripped over [his name] two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber.” – Line 198 b) “Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her.” – Line 69-70 c) “Don’t ask me why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now.” – Line 89 d)“Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man’s job.” – Line 96

8. 4 “That was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send [Dee] to Augusta to school.” – Line 72-73. This quote shows that Mama is a)Wise b)Spiteful c)Vengeful d)Compassionate

9. SAR  “Brain" The part of the SAR that comes directly from your brain is the ANSWER/RESPONSE/IDEA It usually restates the prompt in some way. It can be a metaphor or a simile, but you must be able to explain it! It usually - but not always - comes first in the SAR

10. SAR  “Book” The part of the short answer response that comes from the “Book” or the text. Must have quotation marks around it You do not need to include line or page numbers Must be EMBEDDED Must be CORRECT You should have at least TWO pieces of text evidence. IF YOU CAN’T FIND TWO THAT SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER, YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ANSWER!

11. Exit Ticket On the back of your post-it, please write down ONE question you have about SARs, characterization, or anything we have talked about since the first day

12. SAR “Upgrades” These are ways you can take a short answer response and upgrade them from a 2 (passing) to a 3 (AWESOME! ) – Use a simile or a metaphor – Make a real world connection – Use an idiom – Think about what DIDN’T happen in the text – Examine literary devices within the text