TDA Review Text Dependent Analysis

What do you do after you read the text?

• highlight the evidence

• draw the say, mean, matter chart

• write your essay

What is the ultimate goal of a TDA?

• to answer the prompt using evidence and analysis

• to analyze the text you are reading

• to write a 5 paragraph essay with correct grammar

How many pieces of evidence do you need to write your TDA essay?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 4

When do you draw and complete the "Say, Mean, Matter" chart?

• after you read the text

• after you highlight the evidence

• after you write your introduction

Why do we deconstruct the prompt first?

• so we can write our introduction

• so we understand what the prompt is asking us to write about

• so we know what the text is about

What is the acronym we use to right a successful TDA?

• R.A.C.E.S.

• T.D.A.A.S.

• R.U.N.S.

• W.R.I.T.E.S.

We always finish our TDA with a strong ______________.

• Conclusion sentence

• introduction

• answer

• muscles

When we provide a piece of evidence from the text, we must always introduce it with __________________.

• the answer

• our name

• nothing

• a sentence starter

Putting ___________________ around the evidence we found in the text shows we are using someone else’s words.

• periods

• commas

• quotation marks

• circles

How many pieces of evidence do we need provide to write a successful TDA?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 0