Name: _______________________________ Period:_____

Practice Short Answer Response  

Prompt: How does who the protagonist is and what he or she has experienced shape the way he or 
she sees the world? 
 
● Dear Martin-​ Use evidence from chapter 1 linked ​HERE​ ​or​ any evidence from chapters 1-7 
● To Kill a Mockingbird-​ Use evidence from chapters 2&3 ​HERE​ ​or​ any evidence from chapters 1-12 
 

1. Use the sentence stems below to write your response. 

2. Then type your response in a Google Doc or in the space provided below the sentence stems.  
a. MUST be typed.  
3. When finished upload your response to Schoology through TurnitIn. 

  Sentence Stems: 
  

Assertion 
In ​To Kill a Mockingbird b
​ y Harper Lee, Scout is ________ and 
experiences ______________, which causes her to see the world 
as ______________________________. 
 
Answer the prompt  OR 
 
In ​Dear Martin b​ y Nic Stone, Justyce is ________ and 
experiences ______________, which causes him to see the 
world as ______________________________. 
 

Evidence 
Sentence Stems: 
 
In the text, the protagonist is shown to be ____ through 
___________ (quote).   
Can be multiple sentences (2-4)  OR 
“How do you know?”    
When _____, (author) writes ______ (quote), it shows _______ 
about the main character. 

Commentary 
Sentence Stems: 
 
The evidence shows __________, which allows the reader to 
understand __________ about the protagonist. 
Last few sentences of SAR   
Explain how the evidence supports your assertion.  OR 
  
Explain deeper meaning of text  This example helps the reader to see/understand __________. 
 
 
 
 
Type FULL RESPONSE in the space provided below (no more than 200 words) 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice is a young black teen who is a top student in his class. In Dear Martin, Whos 
undergoes an incident with a policeman while trying to pick up Mel while she was drunk. 
He was racially profiled by the police officer, And was in handcuffs for several hours. 
Justice has started a small project of writing letters to Martin Luther King junior. “‘I know 
your kind: Punks like you wander the streets of nice neighborhoods searching for prey. 
Just couldn't resist the pretty white girl who’d locked her keys in her car could ya?’”(Stone, 
13). According to this text evidence, Officer castelo is assuming the situation and racially 
profiling justice.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
SAR Rubric: 
100 88 78 68 50
Mastery Proficient Approaching Insufficient Unacceptable
Proficient Progress

Assertion Accurately and Accurately answers Partially answers Tries to answer the Assertion has
insightfully answers the prompt the prompt. prompt but is nothing to do with
the prompt (sufficient, (partial success). incorrect the prompt/ is
(more perceptive, accurate). (insufficient, absent​ ​(off task,
more complex, inaccurate).
missed the point).
deeper
understanding).

Selecting The evidence The evidence The evidence The evidence No support
Evidence provided is provided is provided is only provided may be provided (off-task,
well-chosen and appropriate and somewhat inappropriate or little to no
thorough (effective, complete (sufficient, supportive vague (insufficient, evidence of
convincing). understandable, (inconsistent, vague). learning).
workmanlike). limited, general).

Commentary Commentary is Commentary goes Commentary Commentary Commentary is

precise, insightful, beyond literal somewhat expands misinterprets the not provided
clearly analytical, and interpretation and is on the evidence, evidence; has little (off-task, little to
can be easily linked clearly linked to but has difficulty to no success no evidence of
to evidence, shows evidence, going beyond the linking to the learning).
significant depth of representing a literal meaning evidence and/or
ideas in relation to sufficient and/or is only prompt (vague,
the prompt understanding of partially linked to inappropriate,
(convincing, the text and/or the evidence inaccurate).
insightful, fuller, prompt (correct, (limited, imprecise,
exemplary). satisfactory, target).
inconsistent,
general).

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