Regents ELA Part 3 text-analysis response overview quiz quiz

One text; identify a central idea and analyze how one writing strategy develops it

Four texts; take a position

Three texts; answer multiple choice

Two texts; compare them

lists

repeats

summarize

develops

It has no central idea

Retelling is summary; the marks live in analysis of how a strategy develops the idea

It is too short

It uses too many quotations

Gardening.

Tending something neglected can restore both a place and a relationship.

Old people like gardens.

The grandmother plants tomatoes.

'Change' is a theme word that claims nothing; it needs to say what the text shows about change

It is too long

It names a strategy

Nothing, it is ideal

As many as possible

One, chosen because you can clearly connect it to the central idea

Exactly three

None; just summarize

Naming identifies the technique; analyzing explains how it develops the central idea

Analyzing means giving a longer quotation

Naming is for poetry only

There is none

A longer quotation

A second strategy

The author's biography

The explanation linking the imagery to the central idea

By stating the central idea and naming the strategy, then beginning the analysis

With a general essay introduction

With a paragraph retelling the plot

With the author's name and date

It is against the rules

It uses first person

Plot is never relevant

It spends the short space on summary, which earns nothing, and delays the analysis

By word count

On a 6-point rubric

On a 4-point holistic rubric across four criteria

Pass or fail

Length

Number of quotations

Whether the response shows how the strategy develops the idea, rather than just naming both and summarizing

Use of first person

Claim, counterclaim, evidence, citation

Reading, writing, listening, speaking

Content and Analysis, Command of Evidence, Coherence/Organization/Style, Control of Conventions

Spelling, grammar, length, neatness