Fiction
Nonfiction
Writing
Budget Your Time
I'm Feeling Lucky!
100
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
100
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author gives information about a problem and explains one or more ways to fix that problem.
What is Problem & Solution?
100
This is the writing task that requires you to continue/write an original story based on one fictional story.
What is the Narrative?
100

This is the approximate amount of time you should spend reading and note taking?

What is 30 minutes?

100

This is the testing tool that you can use to mark important information in the text as you are reading.

What is the highlighter?

200
This is the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
What is the conflict?
200
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author discusses similarities and differences between people, things, concepts, or ideas.
What is Compare & Contrast?
200
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on two fictional passages.
What is the Literary Analysis?
200

This is the maximum amount of time that you should spend writing your thesis statement.

What is 5 minutes?

200

These are words or phrases that show the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a

 text .

What are transition words.

300
This is the part of the plot in which the loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
300
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author provides readers with chronological events or a list of steps in a procedure.
What is Order & Sequence?
300
This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on three nonfiction sources.
What is the Research Task Simulation?
300

This is the maximum amount of time that you should spend answering the Evidence Based Selected Responses.

What is 20 minutes?

300

This is the testing tool that I can use to cross off answers that I know are incorrect.

What is answer eliminator?

400
This is the phrase used to describe the perspective from which the narrator tells the story.
What is narrative point of view?
400
These are the five possible author's purposes. (Hint: PIE'ED)
What are (1) Persuade (2) Inform (3) Entertain (4) Explain and (5) Describe?
400
This is the strong sentence that uses keywords from the prompt and states the main point of your essay that you should include as the last sentence of your introduction.
What is the thesis statement?
400

This is the approximate amount of time that you should spend on writing (after prewriting/before revising and editing) each essay.

What is 30 minutes?

400

This is the first thing that you should do before reading the passage(s) each day of testing.

What is preview the questions?

500
This is the truth or central idea a story reveals about life; this may also be called the lesson or moral.
What is the theme?
500
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author describes an event or several events and the events that follow.
What is Cause & Effect?
500

This is the only writing task that does not require a thesis statement.

What is the Narrative?

500

This is the time the bell rings for you to enter homeroom and be on time!

What is 8:01?

500

DDAT is an acronym to use in narrative writing.

What are: Dialogue, Description, Action, Thoughts

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