OST prep

What is the first step when given a prompt to write about?

• Read the passages

• Create your thesis

• Figure out what the prompt is asking (simplify it)

• Begin typing

When given the prompt and passages, you have to come up with the claim yourself.

• True

• False

Where do you find the claim??

• You make it up

• In the passages

• In the prompt

What is the difference between a claim and a thesis?

Where in your essay to you write your thesis?

• 1st body paragraph

• 2nd body paragraph

• It's own paragraph

• Last sentence in Introduction paragraph

How many sentences of elaboration do you HAVE to have now?

• 1

• 2

• 3

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Type at least 4 transition words/phrases you will use in your writing.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.7.5

When you "elaborate" in your writing after a quote what are you doing??

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

What do you need around the direct evidence from the passages?

• parenthesis

  ( )

• Quotation Marks

  " "

• Page Number

• Author's name

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

The "central idea" of a passage is the....

• main idea of the passage

• the thesis of the passage

• small detail of the passage

• summary of the passage

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2