Transcript Short Answer Response PPT

Introduction to Short Answer
Response for ELA STAAR
Finding a way to place “out of the box”
insights appropriately into a prescribed box…
Short Answer Response (S.A.R.)
• Short Answer Questions are an opportunity for you, the
student, to strut your intellectual stuff through the
selection of prime text evidence and weaving that
textual support with your own commentary.
Part A - Like all short answer questions, the first
step is to answer the question in your own
words simply and directly.
Part B - The next important step is to find two direct
quotes from the text that directly support
your answer and embed them in your own
writing.
Part C - The final, ultimate step is to use your own
words to explain how the direct text quotes
support your answer.
Short Answer Respons(S.A.R.)
• When writing S.A.Q.s, you will be asked to use two
different systems of organization as you brainstorm and
pre-write. The first organizational system is a planning
grid to be used during brainstorming.
Part C
Part C
Part B
Part B
Part
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Part B
Part C
Part B
Part C
Short Answer Respons(S.A.R.)
• After completing the planning grid for brainstorming, you
will then use the prewriting organizational system
found below:
A) – Answer
B) – Best Embedded Text Quotes
(2 needed)
C) – Commentary (connect the
quotes to your answer)
Short Answer Respons(S.A.R.)
• You will need to complete both the brainstorming and
the prewriting process before you place your final,
polished answer in the ELA STAAR box.
Short Answer Respons(S.A.R.)
• Important Considerations:
– Make sure that all of your words fit on the lines inside the
provided final answer box (no doubling lines or writing
vertically or horizontally along the border of the answer box).
– Both text selections and student commentary need to reflect
insightfulness. Do not just provide a literal, superficial
response. Do not merely echo or paraphrase text evidence
in your connecting and concluding commentary.
– When crafting your commentary, do not go beyond the
concepts contained in the text evidence. If you provide new
information, you must have textual support to defend it.
– Your scores on the S.A.Q.s on the STAAR exam for English
will factor 33% of your overall EOC score.
S.A.R. Practice - Question
Let’s practice together as a class:
Question: In “The Most Dangerous Game,” what is one significant internal
change that Rainsford experiences due to his stay on Ship Trap
Island?
Text:
(From the beginning of the story)
“ ‘Don’t talk rot, Whitney,’ said Rainsford. ‘You’re a big game hunter, not a
philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?’
‘Perhaps the jaguar does,’ observed Whitney.
‘Bah! They’ve no understanding…This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney.
Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes – the hunters and huntees.
Luckily, you and I are hunters.’”
(During the hunt with Zaroff…)
“Then he ran for his life. The hounds raised their voices as they hit the fresh
scent. Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels.”
S.A.R. Practice – Planning Grid
C) But after being
(Before/After)
hunted by Zaroff,
Rainsford directly
B)
“Rainsford
B) ‘Who cares
realizes that
how a jaguar knew now how an
the hunted
animal at
experience a
feels?”
A) Rainsford
bay
keen terror.
learns to
empathize with
the fear of
hunted animals.
B) “Bah!
They’ve
C) Before
arriving at Ship no understanding…”
Trap Island,
Rainsford does
not believe hunted
animals have any
awareness.
feels.”
B) “Then
he ran for
his life.”
S.A.R. Practice – Prewriting
A) –
In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most
Dangerous Game,” Rainsford experiences a
significant internal transformation when he learns
to empathize with the fear of hunted animals.
B) –
Before arriving at Ship Trap Island, Rainsford does
not believe hunted animals have any awareness,
“Bah! They’ve no understanding.” But after being
hunted by Zaroff his perspective shifts, “Rainsford
knew now how an animal at bay feels.”
C) –
After his stay on this eerie island, Rainsford
directly realizes that the hunted do indeed
experience a keen and comprehending terror.
S.A.R. Practice – Final Answer
In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”,
Rainsford experiences a significant internal transformation when he
learns to empathize with the fear of hunted animals. Before arriving at
Ship Trap Island, Rainsford does not believe hunted animals have any
awareness, “Bah! They’ve no understanding.” But after being hunted by
Zaroff his perspective shifts, “Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay
feels.” After his stay on this eerie island, Rainsford directly realizes that
the hunted do indeed experience a keen and comprehending terror.