Hello and Welcome to Thursday and Friday!

OBJECTIVE: 4/21/22 + 4/22/22 (1 page day)
Draft a formal TDA as our final PSSA "Dress Rehearsal".

BUT FIRST..."Focused Reading Sessions" Make-Up = WIN

HOMEWORK: "Sentence NOTES" + Practice links from 4/20 (?)

Here is a step-by-step guide for today's tasks:
1. Copy the OBJ (with date) and HW into your agenda book.

2. Read two passages then draft a formal TDA using your BEST writing skills.
***No links...students absent from class will make up this task during WIN classes.

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--GO TO PAGE 20 IN YOUR PACKET

1. Put Name, Date, and Period above dark bar as shown in photo below.

2. Add key reading skills below dark bar as shown in photo below.

PSSA TDA Cover.jpg

--GO TO PAGE 23 IN YOUR PACKET
Take NOTES as shown in photo below.

PSSA TDA Notes.jpg

TDA Prompt
Nature often has a role in many myths . Write an essay
analyzing the role of nature in both the passage and the
poem . Use evidence from both the passage and the poem
to support your response .

Wait!!! ...Try writing your own TAG'ed
claim/topic sentence before looking
at the samples below.

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Sample TAG'ed Topic Sentence/Claim...Better
Nature is crucial in both Josephine Preston Peabody’s
passage "Icarus and Daedalus" and Wendy A . Shaffer’s
poem “Icarus” . Birds, water, an island, and the sun are
all part of nature and each one has a key role these
mythological pieces of literature.

Sample (somewhat) TAG'ed Topic Sentence/Claim...Just "okay". The above one is better.

These are photos of from a different PSSA TDA prompt...gives a visual of length/depth of a good TDA.

Very Poor "Daedalus and Icarus" TDA