CER Review

CER Review

Supporting your thoughts and ideas with text evidence.

Multiple Choice

What does C.E.R. stand for?

• Citation, Evidence, Response

• Creature, Empire, Rodent

• Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

What is it?

• When you write about what you read, you need to use EVIDENCE (examples from the text) to support your answer. 

  
  

• This strategy will help organize your ideas and evidence.

Example

Money has been valued over human lives for centuries. This is seen when Reynolds emphasizes that "Enslavers weren't interested in hearing anything about converting their slaves. Saving their crops each year was more important to them than saving souls. It was harvest over humanity" (Reynolds 19). This evidence shows that the idea of slaveholders wanted their money more than they wanted to treat African people like human beings, which is something that did not stop once slavery was "ended".

Overview

• Write a CLAIM = Answer the question or state your idea/opinion

• Use EVIDENCE from the text. Evidence = quotes or ideas from the book.

• Add REASONING to explain your ideas and how they connect to the evidence.

Claim - If there's a question to answer

• Always answer fully and restate the question in your answer.

• Your reader should not have to see the question to know what you are writing about.

• Example Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Multiple Choice

What is a CLAIM that answers "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

• The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side.

• To get to the other side.

Multiple Choice

What would be a way to answer this question with a claim:

Could Phillis Wheatley be described as an antiracist, segregationist, or assimilationist?

• Assimilationist.

• Phillis Wheatley was an assimilationist.

• Phillis Wheatley was a poet.

• She was an assimilationist.

I repeat:

Your reader should not have to see the question to know what you are writing about.

Claim - If no question

• Write a statement you want to prove.

• Your topic and idea should be clear.

Possible CLAIM sentence starters:

• It is logical that...

• One can see that...

• Many people would agree that...

• After reading, it is clear that...

• OR -- Simply give a statement that can be

  argued.

Multiple Choice

Which color is the CLAIM?

Money has been valued over human lives for centuries. This is seen when Reynolds emphasizes that "Enslavers weren't interested in hearing anything about converting their slaves. Saving their crops each year was more important to them than saving souls. It was harvest over humanity" (Reynolds 19). This evidence shows that the idea of slaveholders wanted their money more than they wanted to treat African people like human beings, which is something that did not stop once slavery was "ended".

• RED

• GREEN

• BLUE

Evidence:

• A quote copied from the text - OR -

• A paraphrased detail (write someone else's ideas in your words)

• Use a sentence starter to introduce it.

Sentence Starters

• The author states that "_________" (Author's last Name, page #)

• In paragraph ___ on page ___, the author argues that "______".

• The author emphasizes that "_________". (Author's last Name, page #).

Multiple Choice

Do you always have to say where the evidence came from?

• Yes

• No

You're Awesome!

• But for a CER, you're probably not an EXPERT in the topic

• You're using SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEAS

• So yeah, you have to give them credit.

Citing Evidence

• Add the author's last name and

  page number in parentheses at the end of the quotation.

• Name the author and page number in the sentence starter.

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Multiple Choice

Which color is the EVIDENCE?

Money has been valued over human lives for centuries. This is seen when Reynolds emphasizes that "Enslavers weren't interested in hearing anything about converting their slaves. Saving their crops each year was more important to them than saving souls. It was harvest over humanity" (Reynolds 19). This evidence shows that the idea of slaveholders wanted their money more than they wanted to treat African people like human beings, which is something that did not stop once slavery was "ended".

• RED

• GREEN

• BLUE

Reasoning

• Say MORE!

• IN YOUR OWN WORDS, explain how the evidence supports your claim.

• Write more than one sentence if you can.

Sentence Starters

• This quote shows...

• This excerpt explains...

• Based on the evidence ....

• The author's point is that...

• Because ________, we know that ...

Multiple Choice

7th graders typically have the hardest time with writing...

• claim

• evidence

• reasoning

Reasoning is HARD

• You have to use your own ideas

• You don't want to repeat what's already been said

Some Ideas for Reasoning

• Make an inference

• Write a connection to other ideas/topics

• Add personal thoughts/ideas

Multiple Choice

Which color is the REASONING?

Money has been valued over human lives for centuries. This is seen when Reynolds emphasizes that "Enslavers weren't interested in hearing anything about converting their slaves. Saving their crops each year was more important to them than saving souls. It was harvest over humanity" (Reynolds 19). This evidence shows that the idea of slaveholders wanted their money more than they wanted to treat African people like human beings, which is something that did not stop once slavery was "ended".

• RED

• GREEN

• BLUE

Multiple Choice

What should you do when writing your reasoning?

• Write, "This proves what I said is true."

• Explain how your evidence supports your claim.

• Repeat the claim.

Multiple Choice

At a MINIMUM, how many sentences should a CER paragraph be?

• 3

• 4

• 5