BELL RINGER
In your bell ringer section UNDERNEATH last class period’s
bell ringer write today’s date and these sentences:
9. forrest never had no right to lie his jacket their did
he
10. we have broke the worlds record for water skiing
on prior lake in minnesota
**You may either re-write them correctly or use editing marks like the ones on the poster to correct the sentences
You have 5 minutes from the time the tardy bell rings to complete this assignment and YES-IT IS FOR A GRADE!
STEP 2: SHORT ANSWER RESPONSE
10 MINS TO FINISH!
•Answer the SAR with your partner
•Make it a score point 3!
•Remember to embed your quotes (no
floating quotations!)
•You have 20 minutes to complete this
activity
MARKER VERBS
• Check your verbs! If they’re lame, change
them up! Make them sparkle!
• You have 3 mins to change at least 1 lame verb
COLOR CODE IT:
• Assertion=yellow
• Text Evidence =orange
• Commentary=pink
***You will ALWAYS color code your SARs before
turning them in***
it is an automatically -15 points if you do not do so
EMBEDDING QUOTES PRACTICE
• So let’s practice embedding quotes
• Glue the purple paper in the toolbox section of your
1 subject notebook
• We will do the first practice set together today
SAR
• Review the SAR Rubric
• Check the rubric-what
score would you get?
PAIRED SAR
• Your paired short answer responses should ALWAYS
include 4 things:
• Assertion (Answer)
• Textual Support (Evidence) from BOTH passages (#1 & #2)
• Commentary (Your thoughts and ideas)
• I will show you an easy way to answer a paired short
answer response like those found on the English II EOC
STAAR exam
ENGLISH I EOC STAAR PAIRED SAR
• Take out your English I SAR Paired Passage
• What was your score? What do you notice about your answer? Did you
make an assertion? Did you support it with evidence from 2 passages?
Did you include commentary?
• Example:
• Color code it!
• What were you missing?
PAIRED SAR MODEL
SCORE POINT 2
How are the themes of “Theme for English B” and “Funny in Farsi similar? Use evidence
from the text to support your answer.
In “Theme for English B” and “Funny in Farsi” the authors want the reader to understand that we are all
basically the same. “You don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we
are, that’s true.” The speaker tells his instructor that though they look different they are still alike in
some ways. “I realized that my father’s description of America had been correct. The bathrooms were clean
and the people were very, very kind.” The narrator gets lost on her way home and learns that although
she’s not American, she will still be treated like a person by those around her when a stranger shows her
and her mother how to get home.
NOW…HOW DO I MAKE THIS A 3?
• Once you have a 2 it’s somewhat easy to turn it into a 3
• I’m going to show you how!
• You need your 3 subject notebook—Reader’s Notebook section (right where we just
glued in the score point 2)
• You need 4 highlighters:
• Yellow
• Orange
• Green
• pink
PAIRED SAR MODEL
SCORE 3
Prompt: How are the themes of “Theme for English B” and “Funny in Farsi” similar? Use
evidence from the text to support your answer.
In “Theme for English B” and “Funny in Farsi” the authors want the reader to understand that our
differences make us individuals, but our similarities make us human. The speaker in the poem tells his
instructor that “you don’t want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are,
that’s true” signifying his belief that the human race is related regardless of color or culture. As a recent
immigrant, the narrator of “Funny in Farsi” gets lost on her way home from her first day of school.
Dumas learns that the “people [of America] were very, very kind” when two complete strangers help her
and her mother find their way home. Her experience illustrates that although she may be a foreigner
and different, people understand each other on a basic human level. We are all “a part of [each other].
That’s American.”
PAIRED SAR PRACTICE
• How were the speaker in “Theme for English B” and
Firoozeh in “Funny in Farsi” similar? Use evidence
from both selections to support your answer.
*I’m going to provide you with a score point 2 response to this
question
*You will turn it into a score point 3 by
#1 enhancing the answer
#2 embedding the quotes (you may add/change quotes if
you deem it necessary)
#3 changing the verbs (use your marker verb list)
COLOR CODE IT:
• Assertion=yellow
• Text Evidence #1 =orange
• Text Evidence #2 =green
• Commentary=pink
***You will ALWAYS color code your SARs before turning them
in***
it is an automatically -15 points if you do not do so