RACE--Short Answer Response Method ---COPY EVERYTHING IN RED ONLY!!!

Please take the following notes and place in the Reading/Writing Strategies section of your notebook (if you don't have it yet, save it until you do):

Short Answer Strategy: RACE- 
Restate-restate the question

Answer—answer the question (make sure you understand it first--ask if you aren't sure!)

Cite –give the best textual evidence possible to support your answer--not just any evidence (Think about my ESPN SportsCenter example)

Explain*—explain/analyze how your evidence supports the answer (the part we want to focus on more in 12th grade)

Important Notes**: 
1. These DO NOT have to be in this order.
2. Not all questions can be answered this way. Especially "right there" questions in which the answer is just a fact. 
example :  What city was Malcolm born in?

Today we will:
1. Take notes on the RACE question/answer strategy to receive full-credit on responses.
2. Read the sample college essay "Loss of a Father" as a group.
3. Decide as a class and discuss aloud: What the writer is trying to show about himself? How do we know? Are these characteristics that a college would be looking for?
4. As a class we will answer some questions together using the RACE strategy-- a model response (#1).
5. Answer the rest of the questions on a blank sheet of lined paper. Yes! You may copy any answers we did on the board. Place it in the box by the door for your class period.

Worksheet download: College Essay Examples (PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THE CLASSROOM COPY!)