"The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov and Your First RACEEE Paragraph

Today's Goal: 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Today's Agenda:

1. Entrance Question in the Zoom Chat: Who is your favorite person and why? Can you use RA to answer, please?
2. Social Contract Question #2: What can YOU do to show Ms. Black and your peers respect in the classroom?
3. The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov (1951)
4. C.E. of RACE
5. RACE Paragraph Response 

End of Class Checklist (Did I finish these things?):

• Daily Exit Form
• RACE Paragraph

The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov

While we read this, there are a couple things you need to know and a couple things you need to look for.

What you need to know:

• This story was written in 1951. It is science-fiction!
• The story takes place in year 2155.
• In the story, it talks about a "slot" where the characters put their homework using a punch code to write out answers. In this story, that's the same as Google Classroom or Canvas, where you turn in your work.

What you need to look for:

• How does school in 2020 compare to school in 2155? What is similar? 
• We will need at least one piece of EVIDENCE to use to prove the similarities we talk about.

CLICK HERE for the text! 

C and E of RACE!

We have already talked about R and A together! I will be responding to your posts this week, and I will be responding both with general responses and also feedback! You should DEFINITELY take a look so that you can learn and improve! 

BUT WHAT ABOUT C AND E!?

It's cool I got you covered. 

C stands for "Cite the Evidence" and it's maybe the most important new skill we're going to practice together this year. It is ONE sentence that means you are going to copy a quote from the text and provide an in-text citation. An in-text citation is what you put at the end of a quote to prove where the quote came from. 

Here is what it looks like. It has a VERY specific format!

Every C sentences has THREE PARTS:

1. Introductory Phrase
   examples:
         The author writes, 
         Asimov states,
         Margie says, 
         The writer explains that
         
2. The Quote
         The quote has to be EXACTLY as written in the text
         The quote has to have quotation marks around it
   
   
3. In-text Citation
         You put the author's LAST name (capitalize it) and the page number in parentheses. JUST a number. Do not write the word "page" or "pg" or "#". Then you put the period at the VERY END of the sentence.  
   
   (Bradbury 34)
   (Pilkey 97)
   (Cameron 123)

Examples:

At the end of the chapter, Rowling writes, "All was well" (Rowling 759). 

The author finishes the chapter by stating that "All was well" (Rowling 759).

E Is your EXPLANATION of the quote.

It must be TWO sentences or MORE. 

Ms. Black will often call them RACEEEEEE paragraphs instead of RACE paragraphs to remind you that E needs to be the biggest part of your response. RA is one sentence. C is one sentence. EEEE is two or three or four. That means when you write your response, MOST of the response will be the Explanation part. 

It's VERY important. The point of explaining is show that you can show your thinking and prove that the evidence is significant. 

You can start your explanation with some of these sentence starters:

• This is significant because ___
• This moment demonstrates a similarity to 2020 because ___
• When __ says this, they mean ___
• The text proves that _____

"The Fun They Had" RACE Paragraph:

You're going to write your first RACEEE paragraph for Language Arts today! 

Here is the question you will answer: 

After reading "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov, how is school in 2155 similar to school in 2020? 

You will write a RACEE paragraph response for this! 

Here are some sentence frames that might help:

    After reading "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov, school in 2155 is similar to school in 2020 because ______________. In the story, Asimov writes, "_____________" (_______). This moment demonstrates a similarity to 2020 because _________. (then add 1-2 more sentences to talk about it.)

How will this be scored? 

We are looking for TWO things:

1. Did you do ALL FOUR parts of RACE?
2. Is your C sentence correct?