Explaining Evidence

E Explain your citation

Elaborate on why your textual evidence helps you prove your point. Use phrases

_____like: “this example shows how...,” “this quotation proves that...,” etc.

Multiple Choice

What does the "E" stand for in RACE?

• Explain the question

• Expect a response

• Engage the reader

• Explain your evidence

Multiple Choice

The part of RACE where you add your own thoughts to add to the quotes you have chosen to include.

• Restate

• Cite

• Answer

• Explain

Multiple Choice

Which part of the RACE strategy is underlined below?

Question : What is the theme?

The theme is love your neighbor. I know this because the text says "she learned that she needed to be nice to everyone." This quote shows that she learned that it's important to be kind to everybody- which is the same as loving your neighbor.

• Restate

• Answer

• Cite

• Explain

Multiple Choice

Which part of the RACE strategy is underlined below?

Question : What is the theme?

The theme is love your neighbor. I know this because the text says "she learned that she needed to be nice to everyone." This quote shows that she learned that it's important to be kind to everybody- which is the same as loving your neighbor.

• Restate

• Answer

• Cite

• Explain

Multiple Choice

Explaining in RACE is the same as giving more reasons for your answer.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

When you write an explanation sentence, you must:

• Repeat your topic sentence exactly

• Restate your evidence and Repeat the topic sentence

• Explain your evidence and Connect it to the topic sentence

Multiple Choice

The following sentence starter would be best used for which part of a constructed response: This evidence from the text explains why....

• explaining/elaborating on evidence

• citing evidence

• restating the question

• answering the question

Multiple Choice

Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:

The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.

• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.

• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.

Multiple Choice

Which citation supports the idea that Shoeless Joe made a lot of money for his family playing baseball?

• "He was paid $2.50 per game-- more than he made for a day’s work."

• " She had gone to school and could sign the marriage certificate for both of them."

• "The only thing he could read was a pitch and that made him a major sensation in the majors-- when he finally got there."

Multiple Choice

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:

High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200.

• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.

Multiple Choice

Which piece of evidence supports that Kathleen is brave?

• "Even slight miscalculations could send the Vulcan cruiser thousands of miles off course."
• Kathleen might never see her parents again.
• "Kathleen reassured them with a confident look as she logged onto the navigation computer."
• Something could go wrong during takeoff. 

Multiple Choice

Read the topic sentence and evidence below.

In “Four Skinny Trees,” one theme is that we should never give up. The poem says, “Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep,” (Cisneros).

Which of the following would be the best explanation?

• This shows the theme is to never give up.

• The speaker imagines the trees encouraging her to never give up, so we shouldn't either.

• The trees are saying keep to the girl who looks like them. They want the girl to be happy.

Multiple Choice

Read the topic sentence and evidence below.

In “Mother to Son,” one theme is that even when life is hard you have to keep moving. The poem says, “Don’t you set down on the steps/ ’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard,” (Hughes, lines 15-16).

Choose the best explanation to follow this.

• So you can't sit on steps and let the world pass you by.

• The mother, who is speaking in the quote, means that the son shouldn't give up when it's tough.

• When life is hard you have to keep moving and going forward because it's tough a lot of the time.

Multiple Choice

Which explanation is best for this quote?

Ms. Hutchinson was clearly in a state of panic as she screamed, "It isn’t fair, it isn’t right" (Jackson 1).

• By expressing her hysteria, Ms. Hutchinson is allowing her inner emotions to bubble to the surface.

• She is freaking out.

• She is uncomfortable

Multiple Choice

Which explanation is best for this quote?

Anticipation was in the air as, "A sudden hush fell on the crowd as Mr. Summers cleared his throat and looked at the list" (Jackson 1).

• This quote explains how everyone was nervous.

• People were freaking out

• This was the moment that all of the anticipation had led to and in a matter of moments, they would know their fate.

Multiple Choice

Which explanation is best for this quote?

The audience was clearly desensitized to the situation as evidenced by the fact that, "The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions" (Jackson 1).

• They citizens of the town did not react.

• Even though the situation was bleak, the citizens seemed to have the directions memorized and did not concern themselves with listening again.

• They weren't concerned with what was going on in front of them. They did not want to hear the directions again.