Open ended questions

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Open ended questions

• How to answer those TAKS questions

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Preliminary steps

• Look at the question.
• Do I understand the question?
• How many questions are being asked?
• Decide on answer.
• 3. Check your answer.
• - Does my answer actually answer the question
  being asked?

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Secondary Steps

• Answer the question.
• Find support for your answer.
• Direct quotation
• Paraphrase
• Summarize
• Commentary
• Do I need to connect the support with the answer?

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Need more guidance?

• Use the following fill in the blank process
• A answer
• T textual evidence
• E explain

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Steps to a better answer

1. Read and understand the question.
2. Count the questions.
3. Plan your answer.
4. Write your answer
5. Revise your answer.
6. Rewrite your answer.

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How to get a 2

1. Answer the question.
2. Support with details.
3. Explain support.

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How to get a 3

1. Do all of above.
2. Go the extra step and find the element others do
   not find- literary devices, theme, etc. Be
   insightful and original.
3. Dont be afraid to pick the less obvious of
   answers. It may be the best one.

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Scoring Guide

• If the main idea is incorrect and the support is
  correct 0
• If the main idea is correct and the support is
  wrong 1
• If the main idea and the support are correct yet
  weak 1
• If the main idea and the support are correct yet
  strong 2
• If the main idea and the support are excellent
  and show in-depth understanding and application
  beyond the story without being off topic 3

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• If you follow this plan, you will be successful.
• Make sure to have an idea and support it with
  text not an assumption.

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• 1. How is Widow Douglass character developed in
  Chapter 1? Support your answer with evidence
  from the text.
• 2. How can the reader tell that Hucks
  conscience has been influenced by the beliefs of
  his society? Support your answer with evidence
  from the text.
• 3. How does Hucks use of dialect contribute to
  the atmosphere created in the novel? Support
  your answer with evidence from the text.
• 4. How does the author develop the idea that
  people tend to be extremely gullible? Support
  your answer with evidence from the text.
• 5. How does the incorrect use of particular
  words contribute to the humor of the Chapter 25?
  Support your answer with evidence from the text.
• 6. In Chapter 39, what does Hucks description
  of Jims cabin show about Hucks character?
  Support your answer with evidence from the text.
• 7. In Chapter 39, what is the effect of the many
  descriptive details? Support your answer with
  evidence from the text.