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1. APE A Guide to Successful Short Answers CLICK ON THE SCREEN TO ADVANCE THE SLIDES

2. APE APE is a guide to help you create a complete short answers. If you follow this guide you will be successful on this important exam. You should use the APE on every short answer we do from now until the important test.

3. A The first step in creating a successful short answer is to A - ANSWER THE QUESTION You should first RESTATE the question & then answer the question CORRECTLY

4. A – Answer the Question Let’s practice RESTATING the question! Example: What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this story? How would you restate this question? Make it a sentence!!

5. A – Answer the Question What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this story? Here is one way to RESTATE this question: The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers and to show what the future may hold.

6. A – Answer the Question Now you have to support your answer with DETAILS from the selection. Here is what we have so far: The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers and to show what the future may hold. What details do you think the author uses effectively in the selection to warn his readers about the future?

7. A – Answer the Question You could use the following… “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.”

8. P After RESTATING the question, answering the question CORRECTLY and giving a REASON for your answer you must then P – PROVE YOUR ANSWER You should use a QUOTE from the passage to support your answer. The QUOTE MUST PROVE your answer.

9. P – Prove your Answer Remember our example: What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this story? Here is the beginning of our answer: The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers and to show what the future may hold.

10. P - Prove your Answer Now we add the two together : The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers and to show what the future may hold. “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.”

11. P – Prove you Answer PROOF requires that you link the answer to the quote by explaining “why” the quote supports the answer. So…

12. E The final step in writing a short answer is to write an EXPLANATION E – EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER This statement is simply a CONCLUSION. You wrap up your answer.

13. E – Explain your Answer Here are some ways you could begin an EXPLANATION: This shows that… This is the reason… That is why… In conclusion…

14. E – Explain your Answer Our Example: What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this story? Here was an ANSWER with PROOF: The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers and to show what the future may hold. “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.”

15. E – Explain your Answer Here is one way you could EXPLAIN your answer: The author wrote “The Pedestrian” to warn his readers about technology. “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them.”is a quote from the story that warns readers through simile. It shows that technology can be used as a tool to control the public and compares them to the living dead.