TEA Paragraph Practice

What is the correct order of the following paragraph elements?

• Context

• Citation

• Thesis Statement

• Quote

• Analysis

Which answer describes a thesis statement?

• Restate the prompt, add your opinion, say because, and give two reasons.

• What is going on in the story at the time your text evidence happens? Who is talking/ thinking?

• This is the exact words from the book that supports your opinion in your thesis statement

• The author’s last name and the page number of your text evidence in parentheses.

Which of the following is NOT an element of evidence?

• context

• analysis

• quote

• citation

Which of the following is an example of CONTEXT?

• "Get this moron to emergency"

• This shows that Peak is adventurous because he likes to climb skyscrapers.

• For example, Peak is sitting in the hospital, thinking about what he had done:

• Peak's punishment is fair because he committed a crime and he got off kind of easy.

What special punctuation mark comes at the end of CONTEXT?

• Semi-colon

  ;

• Comma

  ,

• COLON

  :

• Exclamation Mark

  !

Which of the following citations is correct?

• (Smith, 14)

• (Roland Smith pg 14)

• (Peak 14)

• (Smith 14)

Which of the following is the strongest thesis statement?

• Risktaker because he climbs mountains.

• The character trait that describes Peak is a risktaker because he climbs mountains and skyscrapers.

• The character trait that describes Peak is a risktaker.

• The character trait that describes Peak is a risktaker because he has two sisters and he lives in New York.

Which of the following describes a CITATION?

• The author’s last name and the page number of your text evidence in parentheses.

• This is the exact words from the book that supports your opinion in your thesis statement.

• Connect evidence to the thesis by explaining what the evidence proves.

  This proves that___________________.

• Restate the prompt, add your opinion, say because, and give two reasons.

Which of the following is an example of ANALYSIS?

• Peak is adventurous because he is a mountain climber and he climbs skyscrapers in the city.

• In Peak, Peak is in court waiting to hear what his sentence will be:

• Clearly, this shows that Peak is thinking about the outrageous ideas he had to climb skyscrapers all over New York.

• “This was my sixth skyscraper. I had planned to do nine all together”

Match the punctuation marks to the part of the paragraph they are used with:

• Parentheses

  ( )

• Context

• Colon

  :

• Citation

• Quotation Marks

  " "

• Quote