1. ACE: Your guide to acing the short answers!!
Objective: IWBAT master the use of ACE by interacting with PowerPoint.

2. ACE NOTES
Answer: Restate the question and answer it using complete sentences.
Cite: Support your answer with evidence from the text. This must be a direct quote.
Explain: This is where you connect your quote to your answer. If you do not explain why or how your quote supports your you do not receive full credit.

3. A C E Question: What was the color of little red riding hoods cloak?
“Once upon a time there was a little girl who wore a crimson cloak and loved to visit her grandmother. She was called “Little Red Riding Hood”. Every Friday she would carry a basket of treats and goodies and stroll through the forest to her grandmother’s house.
Question: What was the color of little red riding hoods cloak?
1. First you have to restate the question.
2. Answer
3. Cite Evidence (Direct Quote): You must introduce your quote and
tell where you found it.
4. Explain: You must make a connection between your quote and your answer. A C E
The color of Little Red Riding Hood’s cloak
is red.
In the first line the author writes “a little girl who wore a crimson cloak.”
By calling the cloak crimson the author is showing that the cloak is a deep red.

4. Let’s try together!
“School. It loomed before her now, massive and dark against the sky. In a few minutes, she would have to face them again---Diane Goddard with her sleek blond hair and Terri Pierce in her candy-pink sweater. And Carol and Steve and Bill and Nancy... There were so many of them, so exclusive as they stood in their tight little groups laughing and joking. Why were they so cold and unkind?” – The Fan Club
1. Is Laura friends with Diane Goddard? A C E

5. You Try! #1 What is Laura’s attitude toward school?
“School. It loomed before her now, massive and dark against the sky. In a few minutes, she would have to face them again---Diane Goddard with her sleek blond hair and Terri Pierce in her candy-pink sweater. And Carol and Steve and Bill and Nancy... There were so many of them, so exclusive as they stood in their tight little groups laughing and joking. Why were they so cold and unkind?
Answer the following questions using the ACE strategy. Be sure to follow each step carefully.
Answer: Be sure to restate the question as you answer it.
Cite: Use a direct quote from the text.
Explain: Make a connection between your evidence and your answer.
How does your quote explain or support your answer.
#1 What is Laura’s attitude toward school?
#2 What type of people are Diane’s friends?

6. Exit Ticket
“Shivering, Laura remembered how they would sit at the back of English class, passing notes and whispering. She thought of their identical brown loafers, their plastic purses, their hostile stares as they passed her in the corridors. She didn't care. They were clods, the whole lot of them. She shoved her way through the door and there they were. They thronged the hall, streamed in and out of doors, clustered under red and yellow posters advertising the latest dance. Mohair sweaters, madras shirts, pea-green raincoats. They were all alike, all the same. And in the center of the group, as usual, Diane Goddard was saying, "It'll be a riot! I just can't wait to see her face when she finds out.”
Using the ACE strategy answer the following.
You must answer in complete sentences.
#1 How does the author characterize Diane and her friends?