This document provides guidance on writing text-based compositions. It discusses the QAR reading strategy and different types of writing prompts. It explains how to write compositions using 1 or 2 passages, including outlining an introduction, body paragraphs with transitions, and a conclusion. The document models these concepts with an example composition responding to a prompt about slave quilts. It provides templates like a Reading Process Card, prompt brainstorming map, and FLE map for planning a composition. Scoring rubrics are referenced. Students are directed to practice writing a composition in response to a given prompt.

1. Writing Text Based
Compositions
RAP…CC
With
Flee Map

2. QAR and Essays
 So far what type of questions have your
essay prompts been?
a. Right there
b. Think and Search
c. Author and Me
d. On My Own

3. New Writing Prompt on iLEAP
 Read the speeches written by two students
running for class president. As you read the
speeches, think about which student would
get your vote and why. Then use the
speeches to help you write a well-organized
multiparagraph composition.
o Which type of question is this?
Author and Me

4. 3 Types of Text Based Compositions
 One passage
Read one passage and use details from
that passage
 Two passages
Read two passages and use details from
both passage
 Finish the story
Read the passage and use details from
that passage to finish the story or

5. estate the question. nswer all parts.
rove your
answer.
rove your
answer.
losing paragraph.
“Tell Me More”
details from text
“Tell Me More”
details from text
(Not the exact same paragraph as the beginning, but means the same.)
Writing a Text Based Composition with 1 or 2 Passages
ommentary.
“Tell Me More”
details from text
(Commentary= Your Comment, Opinion, Feelings, or Explanation)
ommentary. ommentary.
rove your
answer.
1st
Paragraph
Remember to “hook” the reader first.
Transition Transition Transition
2nd
Paragraph 3rd
Paragraph 4th
Paragraph
5th
Paragraph

6. Reading Process Card
 Read the prompt on page 3.
 Read “Pattern for Freedom: Women’s Quilts
as Art” by following the Reading Process.
Circle title and pictures.
Key and number paragraphs.
Read first paragraph
a. Ask, “Is it Narrative or Expository?”
b. Write an E or N in the top corner.
Read each paragraph and underline important
details. While reading, write a word or phrase
about the main idea of the paragraph in the
margin.
As you read, write any questions you have in the
margin.

7. Prompt Brainstorming
 Brainstorm using
a Circle Map.
Learned
from
Slave
Quilts
What slaves thought
African culture
Symbols/
Secret Code
Underground Railroad
Color Meanings

8. Text Based Composition Flee Map
Based on “Pattern for Freedom: Women’s Quilts as Art”,
people have learned a great deal from studying slave quilts.
These quilts teach about African culture, the Underground
Railroad, and what slaves thought and felt.
First
African tribes
used quilts to
keep their
culture alive.
Slave quilts
taught us much
about the
Underground
Railroad.
These quilts
taught us
about slaves’
personal
backgrounds.
Also Finally
Tribes had no written
language so customs, events,
legends taught through
textiles.*These quilts were like
our scrapbooks and photo
albums. They told a story.
Log Cabin design with
black instead of red in
the center meant safe
house.* These quilts
actually meant life or
death to slaves.
Women who couldn’t read
or write have passed on
their emotions, histories,
and religious beliefs.
*These women’s quilts
were the diaries of today.
In conclusion, I believe these quilts were of great importance to the slaves during
the time of the Underground Railroad and are still important today. Slaves’ quilts
have taught us much about slaves’ lives, culture, and the Underground Railroad.

9. Slave Quilts
Slave quilts are a very important part of history. Based on “Pattern for Freedom:
Women’s Quilts as Art”, people have learned a great deal from studying slave quilts.
These quilts taught us about African culture, the Underground Railroad, and what
slaves thought and felt.
First, African tribes used quilts to keep their culture alive. Many of these tribes had
no written language so customs, events, and legends were taught through textiles.
These quilts were like our scrapbooks and photo albums. They told a story that taught
about the African tribes’ pasts. Much of this information would have been lost without
the quilts.
Also, slave quilts taught us much about the Underground Railroad. For example, we
learned that a log cabin design with black instead of red in the center meant that place
was a safe house. The Jacob’s Ladder pattern also told slaves if a place was safe.
Slaves used an Underground Railroad Quilt Code to communicate. Not knowing what
a quilt represented could actually have meant life or death to slaves.
Finally, these quilts taught us about slaves’ personal backgrounds. Women who
couldn’t read or write have passed on their emotions, histories, and religious beliefs
through the creation of these quilts. For example, they used certain colors to express
their feelings. Blue, also, represented protection for the person making the quilt. These
slave women’s quilts were their diaries of today.
In conclusion, I believe these quilts were of great importance to the slaves during
the time of the Underground Railroad and are still important today. Slaves’ quilts have
taught us much about slaves’ lives, culture, and the Underground Railroad.

10. What does a 4 look like?
 Read the text based writing prompt.
 Read the student sample your group was
given.
 Use reverse mapping to find the “holes” in the
composition.
 Look at the Content Rubric for 2 passages
and score your sample. (4, 3, 2, or 1)
 Share Flee Map and score.
 Real score??

11. Your Turn
 Use the Reading Process as you read the
Writing Prompt.
 Write a multi-paragraph composition to answer
the question on page 3.
 Remember to add specific details from the text.
 Type composition in Word and submit at
my.hrw.com
 Revise and edit your work if you scored below a
3.
 Submit again.