On-Level: Prewriting for "Everyday Use" SAR

Today, we used "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker to review the reading skill characterization and to review writing short answers, which are approximately 24% of your EOC score.

General SAR Notes:

Notice that all of the terms from the directions (answer, evidence, and explain) have multiple synonyms.
 Don't let this confuse you. They are all correct.

Any successful short answer will have all of these things (in purple). The information to the side (in pink) is a list of synonyms.

The question: How would you describe Mama, the narrator in "Everyday Use"? Explain your answer with evidence from the text. 

Here's a peek at the prewriting the different classes worked on today:

5th period characterized Mama as "tough" and "African American"

4th period characterized Mama as "physically strong"
 and said that she "struggles with being too submissive with her daughter"

6th period characterized Mama as "independent"

7th period said Mama was "independent" and "cares for her kids"