1. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
Do Now: Take out your multiple choice packets with the “Laser” passage and “Snow Days” passage.

2. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
Short-Response Questions: These are single questions in which you must use textual evidence to support your answers to inferential questions. These questions ask you to make an inference (a claim, position, or conclusion) based on your analysis of the passage, and then provide TWO pieces of text-based evidence to support your answer.

3. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
The purpose of the short-response questions is to assess your ability to comprehend and analyze text. In responding to these questions, you will be expected to write in complete sentences. Responses should be 3-5 sentences in length. Students who answer the question only using details from the text will NOT receive full credit. A full-credit response is characterized by both an inference and textual support.

4. Score
Response Features
2 Points
• Valid inferences and/or claims from the text where required by the prompt
• Evidence of analysis of the text where required by the prompt
• Relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, and/or other information from the text
to develop response according to the requirements of the prompt
• Sufficient number of facts, definitions, concrete details, and/or other information
from the text as required by the prompt
• Complete sentences where errors do not impact readability
1 Points
• A mostly literal recounting of events or details from the text as required by the
prompt
• Some relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, and/or other information from
the text to develop response according to the requirements of the prompt
• Incomplete sentences or bullets
0 Points
• A response that does not address any of the requirements of the prompt or is totally
inaccurate
• A response that is not written in English
• A response that is unintelligible or indecipherable
*If the prompt requires two texts and the student only references one text, the response can be scored no higher than a 1.

5. Score
Response Features
2 Points
• You restate the question and make a clear inference that connects to the passage.
• You show that you know what you are talking about; your inference makes sense.
• You use and fully explain 2 pieces of text evidence that actually support and expand your inference.
• You write in complete sentences (Yes, periods are important). Minor errors are okay, as long as your reader knows what you’re saying.
1 Points
• You restate and answer the question, but your connections aren’t strong.
• The text evidence you use doesn’t fully support or connect to your inference. You don’t expand, and your analysis is too literal. You’re basic.
• Incomplete sentences with errors that make your reader question what he/she is reading.
0 Points
• You tried…or didn’t, really. Your inference is inaccurate.
• No text evidence used.
• Too many errors that completely prevent a reader from understanding what you wrote.
*Follow directions. If they ask you to talk about 2 passages, TALK ABOUT 2. BECAUSE IF YOU ONLY TALK ABOUT 1, YOU WON’T SCORE HIGHER THAN A 1!!!

6. Explain…your evidence. Expand!
SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
In answering short response questions, use RACE!
Restate…the question as a transition into your inference/answer.
Answer…the question. Clearly state your inference.
Cite…TWO pieces of text evidence.
Explain…your evidence. Expand!
*Including text evidence with no explanation of that evidence will result in a score no higher than a 1.
** “Citations should look like this” (Hughes, pg.5).

7. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
#64 (pg. 41) Response that would receive 2 points: The theme of both texts seems to be that mental power is stronger than physical power. The fisherman cleverly thinks of a way to put the jinni back in the jug. “There is only one way I can win this context and save myself…and that is by using my brain…” (unknown, para. 7). The main character in “The Boulder” thinks of a clever way to move the boulder. “When he asked which part of me was strong enough to move the boulder, I said I’d give my brain a try” (unknown, para.3). Both characters would have found it difficult to use their physical strength to solve their problems.

8. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
#64 (pg. 41) Response that would receive 1 point: The theme is brain power is the best. The fisherman uses his brain to get the thing back in the jar so it goes in the jar and he push it back into water and it scares the fish making him finally catch them. He couldn’t push the thing back into the jar so he had to use his head.

9. SWBAT write a well-developed response to a short-response question after reviewing the rubric and student samples.
#64 (pg. 41) Response that would receive 0 points: He finally catches fish after beating a demon and they move boulders so that can ride bikes.