Overview from 9/15 and Assignment due 9/22

Today we did our first Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) Workshop. The students were given a packet that they need to bring with them every week until I say otherwise. Forgetting the packet at home will make it hard for them to participate each week, and would cause them to get a zero score on the assignment that is due in the packet that week. 

TDA Prompts have 3 sentences and each sentences serves a purpose:

First sentence: Gives an overview of the text the prompt goes with OR skill needed for the essay

Second sentence: Gives the task (what you have to analyze/write about)

Third sentence: Reminds you to always cite evidence to support your response

We also looked at the difference between Literary ELEMENTS vs. Literary DEVICES. Students took notes on the two. Each TDA task asks students to look at the relationship between Literary elements and devices. They should always box the following in each TDA prompt task sentence:

1. Literary element

2. Literary device

3. The verb that connects the literary element and literary device

FOR NEXT WEEK:

Students are to read and annotate "The Snow Cave" and "The Sea Wolf" in their TDA packets. I will check annotations next week before starting our next assignment where we will use those texts.