Paired Text w/Buffalo-TEXT EVIDENCE

What are two ways to CITE, or add text evidence, to support your answer?

• answer it and add a direct quote

• a direct quote or paraphrase

• paraphrasing and explaining

When citing information (or adding text evidence), you ALWAYS have to tell where the information is coming from.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When you copy down the exact words and put quotation marks around them, it is...

• a direct quote

• a paraphrase

When you put the text into your own words, it is called...

• a direct quote

• paraphrasing

Including a page number to your cite makes it extra impressive.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Every C needs an E. What's an E?

• energy

• explanation of your cite

• problem

A good way to explain a cite is to add which statement below?

• A. This shows_______ because______

• B. This explains_____ because______

• C. None of the above

• D. Options A and B

Which of the following is the best example of a direct quote?

• The text stated that they were trying to get the buffalo herd up to about 1,000 on the tribal lands.

• "The goal is to establish at least 1,000 buffalo in herds on American Indian lands" (17).

• The text stated, "The goal is to establish at least 1,000 buffalo in herds on American Indian lands" (17).

Which choice below is the best example of a paraphrase?

• The text stated, "The goal is to establish at least 1,000 buffalo in herds on American Indian lands" (17).

• The text stated that "The goal is to establish at least 1,000 buffalo in herds on American Indian lands" (17).

• The text stated that there was a goal to get the buffalo herd numbers on tribal lands up to 1,000 (17).

Imagine your are creating a TDA response that is asking you to write about the role buffalo played in the survival of many American Indian tribes on the Great Plains.

Which would be the best topic sentence?

• In the Scope Scholastic article "The Vanishing Beasts", Talia Cowan shared that buffalo were key to the survival of many American Indian tribes on the Great Plains.

• In the Scope Scholastic article "The Vanishing Beasts", Talia Cowan shared that millions of buffalo roamed the Great Plains.

• Many American Indian tribes had a deep respect for the buffalo.