Essay Writing

True or false: It's okay to drop a quote in a paragraph all by itself, without any of your own words before or after to explain it.

• True

• False

Why do we cite evidence?

• To make our essays longer

• To help prove our claim/point/idea

• To paraphrase

After giving evidence to support your ideas, you should...

• cite another piece of evidence.

• move on to your next ideas.

• explain how the evidence supports your idea.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

A poem's title should be underlined.

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is the "meat" of the quote sandwich

• The claim

• The quote

• The interpretation

• The connection

The idea of a quote sandwich is not literal, it is

• A simile sandwich

• A metaphorical sandwich

• A hyperbolic sandwich

• A delicious sandwich

Titles should always be

• Underlined and Spelled Correctly

• Underlined and Lower-Cased

• In Quotation Marks

• Excluded from an essay

It is really important to use evidence because

• Evidence is your claim.

• It's easy to pull words from a text.

• It is the cool thing to do.

• Evidence supports your claim.

True or False: It matters which quotes you use.

• True

• False

• Honestly, it depends on how well you interpret that evidence. If you can prove your claim to be true, in the end it doesn't really matter how specific the quote is.

True or False: Direct Quotes have to come from the text word for word.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Occasionally