SC Ready TDA

What is a good way to plan your text dependent analysis or (essay)?

• Use an outline, t-chart, or web map on paper

• Begin typing

• Read the entire passage first.

• Read the question before the passage. 

You're writing a TDA, or essay, analyzing an author Thomas Crane's opinion about whether or not students should wear school uniforms. Select the best sentence starter to introduce him in your topic sentence.

• The author of the article ...

• The author, Thomas Crane, wrote in his essay "Done with Uniforms," that students should have a choice.

• The author wrote that students should have a choice in school uniforms.

• The author has the opinion in "Done with Uniforms" that they're not cool.

What is the first step you should take with text dependent analysis?

• Scan the article

• Read the article

• Read the question

• Answer the question

What is the second step in text dependent analysis?

• Scan the article,

• Read the article.

• Read the question.

• Answer the question.

To make an inference, the reader must use ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   to understand what the author does not say in the text.

• text evidence

• background knowledge

• dictionary

• highlighter

This image is an example of _______.

c

hyperbole

personification

inference

metaphor

Which metaphor best represents this image?

c

time is like moeny

time is money

time is green

money is time

Label this basic plot diagram.

a

b

c

d

e

Resolution

Climax

Rising action

Introduction

Falling action

When a text dependent analysis rubric ask you to use domain specific language, what is it asking you?

• It is asking you to show the author's claim.

• It is asking you to use language specific to the article or subject.

• It is asking you to give the authoritative opinion.

• It asking you to give a quote.

When the TDA rubric asks you to determine implicit meaning of a text, what is it asking you to do?

• It is asking you for the direct quotes from the author.

• It is asking you for a meaning at which the author only hints.

• It is asking for a quote.

• It is asking for an authoritative opinion.