1. High Schools that Work Conference – 2018 Orlando, Florida
The Anatomy of a TDAQ
High Schools that Work Conference – 2018
Orlando, Florida

2. Think Pair Share What is an analysis?
Jot down your personal definition and be prepared to share with a neighbor.

3. Analysis
Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation
Synonyms – examination, investigation, inspection, survey, study, scrutiny

4. Modes of Analysis What a text says – summary or restatement
What a text does – description (discusses important aspects of the presentation of the text – choices of content, author’s perspective, language, and structure
What a text means – analysis (interprets the text and asserts a meaning for the text as a whole – putting the message in a larger context to determine theme)

5. Analysis Process
Students should follow these steps as they work through a piece:
Make careful observations about the text (close reading)
Find patterns
Draw conclusions that are anchored in text details

6. Constructed Response vs. Text Dependent Analysis Questions

7. How do the question types differ?
Constructed Response
Text Dependent Analysis
Requires the student to generate a response as opposed to selecting a response
Uses textual evidence
Requires the student to generate a response as opposed to selecting a response
Uses textual evidence
Requires higher level thinking

8. How do the question types differ?
Constructed Response
Text Dependent Analysis
What is a lesson the judge teaches the baker? Give at least two reasons to support your answer.
The judge stated, “Punishment should fit the crime. I have decided that the price for the smell of bread should be the sound of money.” Write an essay analyzing why he made this statement. Use evidence from the passage to support your response.

9. What are text dependent analysis questions?
Text dependent questions require
close reading of a text
students to provide evidence from the text and draw inferences based on what the text says in order to support an analysis

10. What are text dependent analysis questions?
Text dependent questions do not
rely on any particular background information extraneous to the text
depend on students having other experiences or knowledge

11. Anatomy of the TDA The TDA will not be an argument or a narrative:
W.2 – Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

12. Anatomy of the TDA Question
The drama focuses on events in the life of Florence Nightingale. Write an essay analyzing how the three-scene structure of the drama emphasizes certain characteristics of Florence. Use evidence from the drama to support your response.

13. Anatomy of the TDA Question
1 – serves to guide students’ thinking
The drama focuses on events in the life of Florence Nightingale. Write an essay analyzing how the three-scene structure of the drama emphasizes certain characteristics of Florence. Use evidence from the drama to support your response.
2 – tells students what to do to answer the task
3 – always the same sentence

14. Anatomy of the TDA Question
The 1st sentence signals to students the type of text they will be reading. It also signals to them that they will be focusing on events in Nightingale’s life.
The drama focuses on events in the life of Florence Nightingale. Write an essay analyzing how the three-scene structure of the drama emphasizes certain characteristics of Florence. Use evidence from the drama to support your response.

15. Anatomy of the TDA Question
The drama focuses on events in the life of Florence Nightingale. Write an essay analyzing how the three-scene structure of the drama emphasizes certain characteristics of Florence. Use evidence from the drama to support your response.
This sentence tells students to focus on a specific aspect of the text’s structure. Then students must analyze HOW that structure emphasizes certain characteristics of Nightingale. It most closely aligns with RL

16. Creating a TDA Question
Pat Conroy excerpt

17. Creating a TDA Question
Work with your table to carefully read the excerpt from Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.
Follow the formula to create your own TDA question for the passage.
1 – Set the purpose for the student
2 – Define the task to be completed – link this sentence to a reading standard.
3 – Require evidence-based responses.
Write your prompt on the poster.

18. Analyzing the Prompt
Attack the prompt by circling the action verbs, underlining the nouns, and rewriting it in a new way.
Identify the reading standards assessed in the prompt. Is the prompt on target? Does the prompt match the expectations of the standard? If not, how can it be improved?
Identify the academic vocabulary students need to know.
Identify the scaffolding needed to answer the question.

19. Group Share

20. Application!
Using a text you are currently teaching or will soon teach, write a text dependent analysis question.
Identify the reading standard the TDA will address.