Box It!!

1. Box It!! Your ticket to passing the OAA—and to answering any short or extended response question.

2. Short Answers • 2 Points = 2 Actions • This means I need to do 2 things!

3. Extended Responses • 4 Points = 4 Actions • This means I must do _____things! 4

4. Step One: How do I know what to do?!

5. Read the question. Really read the question—the whole thing! And then……

6. Describe Explain Evaluate Determine Contrast Compare Support Justify Give reasons Show Draw Give examples Simplify Demonstrate Compute Construct State Identify Find the Action Words!!

7. Underline them!! Step Two: • Really! Right on the test or paper. • Underline those action words!!

8. Short Answer Example

9. Short Answer ExampleWhat would you underline? On the basis of Helen Keller’s experiences by the end of the passage, predict her attitude toward her future lessons. Support your answer with specific details. Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2 points)

10. Another example…. The original cost of the guitar that Jane wants to buy is $240 in two different stores. Sam’s Music is having a sale where guitars are discounted by 30%. Melody Music is offering a $45 discount on the same guitar. In your Answer Document, explain which store is offering the better deal. Show work or provide an explanation to support your answer. (2 points)

11. The picture shows a stream flowing through a desert canyon. The canyon was shaped by natural processes. In your Answer Document, identify a slow process that could have helped shape the canyon. Describe evidence of this process shown in the picture. Then, identify a rapid process that could have helped shape the canyon. Describe evidence of this process shown in the picture. (4 points)

12. The charts show some differences in the amount of electricity produced by different methods in the United States and in Ohio. Various constraints, such as geographic, social or economic factors, influence the method used for electricity production in a region. In your Answer Document, choose one method of electricity production used in Ohio. Give two reasons or factors that support using this method in Ohio, and give two reasons or factors that can be used to argue against using this method in Ohio. (4 points)

13. Step Three: • Look at how many points the question is worth. • If it’s worth 2 points, draw 2 boxes.

14. Step Three: If it’s worth 4 points, draw 4 boxes.

15. Predict Support Label your boxes with your verbs. On the basis of Helen Keller’s experiences by the end of the passage, predict her attitude toward her future lessons. Support your answer with specific details. Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2 points)

16. Write your answers in the boxes. • Look back at the question and see what they want you to “predict”, or “explain,” or “support” or “describe”. • Write your answer in a sentence in each box. • Make sure your have each box filled.

17. How would we "Box" this Question?

18. What Should This One Look Like? Support Predict Her attitude toward her future. Your answer with specific details.

19. Predict Support Label your boxes with your verbs. She went around trying to learn the names for common objects around her. I predict Helen will actually study and try to learn more. On the basis of Helen Keller’s experiences by the end of the passage, predict her attitude toward her future lessons. Support your answer with specific details. Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2 points)

20. How Would You Grade This? I think she would be more eager to learn as much as she could. When she got home from the well-house she said everything she touched felt full of life. Support Predict Grade … 0 1 2

21. What should a Short Answer (2 Point) Response Look Like? She will be very calm. She won’t fight or throw a hissie fit or argue. Support Predict Grade … 0 1 2

22. What should a Short Answer (2 Point) Response Look Like? Her attitude was good. She knew she was blind so she made the best of it. Predict Support Grade … 0 1 2

23. Let’s try another one… Use two pieces of information from the passage to explain how the Indians showed “care and respect” for the cedar trees. Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2 points)

24. Use two pieces of information from the passage to explain how the Indians showed “care and respect” for the cedar trees.Write your answer in the Answer Document. (2 points) • What is the verb to underline? • How many boxes do you draw? • What would the labels be?

25. It Should Look Like This… Explain Explain How the Indians showed care and respect. How the Indians showed care and respect.

26. Lets Do This One On Our Own! On your answer document, identify two beliefs that influenced China during the Zhou period; then describe each belief. Is this a 2 or 4 point question?

27. How Should it Look? Identify Identify Daoism is one belief. Legalism is one belief. Describe Describe Daoism stressed living in harmony with the Dao, the guiding force of all reality Legalism is the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled.

28. Box It! • Read question. • Underline verbs or action words. • Draw boxes. • Label boxes. • Go back to question to see what they want. • Write your answers in a sentence.