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!)

Another example of the senior exit speech

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Senior exit speech example #1

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Senior Exit Speech

link to the assignment (last for the year): click here

Basic format:

Greeting:


Purpose:


Memories:


Lessons learned (or other topic________):


Advice to future graduates (or other topic __________):


Final message to class of 2019 or the world (or other topic ___________________):

Rhetorical Mode: Definition

(for your chart) A definition essay A definition essay takes the concept of “definition” more broadly, moving beyond a dictionary definition to deeply examine a word or concept as we actually use and understand it.

"On Being a Cripple" page 226 by Nancy Mairs

and answer the worksheet questions provided:

Process/analysis day 2

"On Dumpster Diving" by Lars Eighner
Read and complete the questions that follow.

Choose one of the following topics and write a process analysis essay of 1-2 pages (either information or informative). The topic can be anything you want (most likely something you know a lot about or know how to do well). Here are some ideas if you don't have any:
1) Something from your shop (how to do or make something)
2) How to become successful in life
3) How to get a job for a high school student
4) How to make something to eat ( a meal you know how to prepare)
5) How to get your driver's license
6) How to choose something to watch on tv/online
7) How to live a happy life
8) How to make new friends
9) How to find the perfect prom dress
10) How to play a sport



Here is a link with more ideas

Process Analysis Writing

for your chart: 
Process Analysis is:  is a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. It can take one of two forms: Information about how something works (informative)

"Learning to Read' by Malcolm X
--Complete multiple choice #1-10
--Add on writing response (no specific format)--Which of the 2 types of process analysis writing do you believe this is (information or informative--see above definition). Explain your answer using at least 2 specific examples from the text.