CER, Citation & "The House on Mango Street"

A formal framework for organizing our thoughts into clear, logical writing.

• Claim

• Reasoning

• CER

• Evidence

Answer explanation

CER is a formal framework for organizing thoughts into clear, logical writing. It stands for Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. It helps structure arguments and support claims with evidence.

The point or argument being made.

• Claim

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• CER

The facts, examples, or sources used to support a claim, properly cited.

• CER

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

The explanation or logic for how evidence supports a claim.

• CER

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reasoning

Match the following

• Evidence

• In “The House on Mango Street,” the narrator says “...this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed” (4).

• Evidence

• It is up to us to decide what to do with our inheritance.

• Reasoning

• The narrator chooses to deal with each of her various inheritances differently, holding on to some and rejecting others.

• Claim

• In “Boys & Girls,” the narrator says “You don’t pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come out like Nenny” (8).

• Evidence

• In “My Name,” the narrator says “I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window” (11).

Reorder the following to be CER.

• It is up to us to decide what to do with our inheritance.

• In “My Name,” the narrator says “I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window” (11).

• The narrator chooses to deal with each of her various inheritances differently, holding on to some and rejecting others.

Identify one example of reasoning in the paragraph.

Select the correct citation: “Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it” ​ ​ (a)  

• 33.
• (33)".
• (33).

In the vignette ​ (a)   the narrator talks about the hair types of each member of her family. She gives short descriptions of everyone's hair but her mother's, whose hair she says (b)   (6) and that it is "like little candy circles all curly and pretty pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day" (6).

• "Hairs,"
• (Hairs)
• hairs
• "Hairs"
• "is the smell of bread before you bake it"
• (is the smell of bread before you bake it)
• Is the smell of warm bread before you bake it.
• : is the smell of warm bread before you bake it.

What should you do first when you get access to the assignment google document?

• 1. Clean up the formatting. Your final version should not have any of my instructions left in it, it should look like this:

• 1. Find TWO pieces of evidence (quotations) from TWO different vignettes that supports your theme statement 

• 1. Select a theme statement you will write about from the theme bank, OR invent your own for a 4 on the rubric. When choosing a theme statement, remember that you are being asked to make a personal connection to it. This may affect your decision. 

• Read the example paragraph.