Do Now:

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Do Now

• Free write on the topic lifes transitions.
  What does that mean to you? What does it make
  you think of? What is your feeling towards it?
  Write down whatever comes to mind given this
  topic.

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Session One
• Part A--Listening
• Multiple Choice
• Essay
• Part BInfographic
• Multiple Choice
• Essay

• Session Two
• Part ADual Passage
• Multiple Choice
• Essay (Thematic)
• Part BCritical Lens
• Essay (Critical lens)

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Tip 1 Assess the Prompt--Get it down PAT!
• Tip 2 Skim the questions FIRST, BEFORE reading
  the passage
• Tip 3 Read the passage with a PEN or PENCIL in
  your hand to ANNOTATE
• Tip 4 Answer the questions WITHOUT considering
  the choices first!

4
Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Controlling IdeaThesis
• What do they BOTH say ABOUT lifes transitions?
  
• Significance!
• Consequence!
• Reason!

5
Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• TOPIC (What you see, how each passage deals with
  the topic)
• ANGLE (What you are saying ABOUT what you see)
• THESIS (The umbrella)

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Tip 5 Be sure to have a controlling idea that
  is either a SIGNIFICANCE, CONSEQUENCE, or REASON.
  Do NOT simply write a compare/contrast essay!

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Working with your partner, compose ONE sentencea
  theme/thesis/controlling idea. What are you
  saying ABOUT lifes transitions?
• The transition process emerges as one which is
  indeed difficult, but one which parents can,
  ultimately, come to understand and accept.

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Tip 6 Choose a FRAMEWORK
• Essay framework
• Organizational Pattern
• Appropriate transitional words and phrases

9
Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Subject by Subject
• Intro
• Passage One
• Passage Two
• (Synthesis)
• Conclusion

• Point by Point
• Intro
• Point One
• Passage One and Two
• Point Two
• Passage One and Two
• (Point Three)
• Passage One and Two
• Conclusion

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Aim How do you master task three of the ELA
Regents?

• Tip 7 USE LITERARY ELEMENTS in your
  discussion!!! (Aim for TWO a passage)
• HW Settle on a thesis and sketch out your plan
  (rough outline) for this essay. In your outline,
  include the literary elements you would discuss
  from each passage