Introduction
This WebQuest will help you cite evidence to support the text needed. This will help you look at critical and thorough evidence from the passage to support your text. The goal is for you to understand where you're gaining the evidence and how to support questions/text that require evidence.
Task
Your task is to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin. Once you're finished reading the story, I would like for you to answer four questions using evidence from the text to support your answers. You can answer them on paper, Word, or Google Slides. Make sure to type at least a paragraph for every answer. No one lines!
Process
Part I: Reading
The first course of action is clicking on the passage, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. You can take notes if you'd like, anything that seems interesting is worth being written down.
Part II: Answering
The second course of action is to answer the questions I've provided with at least a paragraph. Make sure that you use quotes or direct evidence from the text to support your answers.
1) What does Ursula Le Guin base happiness off of in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” ?
2) Why does everyone in the city have to be aware of the existence of the child?
3) Is Omelas a true Utopia? Why or why not?
4) Does the narrator live in Omelas? Explain.
Part III: Revision
The third and last course of action is to revise your answers. Make sure that your sentences are punctuated correctly and that you're evidence supports your answer.
Evaluation
Each answer will be graded according to this rubric.
| 2 | Gives sufficient evidence of the ability to determine and analyze the development of a central idea within the text. | Includes specific examples/details that make clear reference to the text. | Adequately explains the development of the central idea within the text and the supporting information with clearly relevant details based on the text. |
| 1 | Gives limited evidence of the ability to determine and analyze the development of a central idea within the text. | Includes limited examples that make reference to the text. | Explains the development of the central idea within the text. |
| 0 | Gives no evidence of the ability to determine and analyze the development of a central idea within the text. | Includes no examples to the text. | Has no explanation/development to the central idea within the text. |
Conclusion
Thank you for participating in my WebQuest. Hopefully, you will have understood how to cite evidence from a passage to support your answers. If you continue to struggle, I have a few websites that could help you.
1. For an easy and simple practice, play the Citing Textual Evidence game on quizizz.com.
2. If you need it explained in detail or just something to look back on, read the Textual Evidence Powerpoint.
3. For a quick and easy refresher, watch the YouTube video called Citing Evidence.
Reminder: Make sure that when you’re citing textual evidence that the evidence supports the text you’re answering. Think of questions such as, “How can I back this up?” “What evidence from the text supports my reasoning? What can I infer about a specific character or event?”
For MORE extra help, try out this practice quiz or this YouTube video.
Thank you for trying this out. I really hope it helps!
Credits
I would like to thank my English teachers that helped us learn how to cite evidence to support our answers.
Teacher Page
This WebQuest is to help students know how to support their answers with evidence from a passage. It provides them different types of media to help them practice how to cite. This activity is pretty simple and easy for high school students to do. It provides them a few fun and simple activities and a more serious kind of task. I think that this is a simple and easy activity for those that struggle with citing evidence to support their answers.
Standard
11-12.RL.2.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences and interpretations drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.