DIY: Your Best Test! (Testing Strategies)
This is what you can do when feeling fatigued or frustrated.
What is "take a break"?
I wanted to go for a walk. My friend decided to join me.
This is the correct way to most effectively combine the two sentences above.
What is "I wanted to go for a walk, and my friend decided to join me."?
This is the person or animal who tells the story.
What is "the narrator"?
This is the information that supports or proves an idea or claim; can include facts, statistics (numerical facts), expert opinions, examples, and anecdotes.
What is "evidence"?
My phone is waiting on top of the pile of dirty clothes, right where it landed when I chucked it at the wall early Sunday morning because the constant ringing was making me crazy and I was too tired to turn it off.
This is the point of view in the above passage.
What is "1st person"?
This is the tool you use when you find an unfamiliar word in a passage or question.
What is "Dictionary"?
Shawn decided to stay home. He wasn’t feeling well.
This is the correct way to most effectively combine the two sentences above.
What is "Shawn decided to stay home, because/since/as he wasn’t feeling well."
This is a struggle people opposing forces in a story.
(Bonus: These are the two types a character can experience?)
What is "conflict"?
(Bonus: What is "internal and external"?)
This is the points that explain why the author is making a certain claim.
What is "reasons"?
Behind you the module burns.
Before you . . .
Cold. Unimaginable, bone-chilling cold. The sun so small, so far away. The land and the sky bleached of color, drained to faint red or blue tints on varied shades of gray.
You shiver in your vacuum armor. The forced landing has jarred its systems.
This is the point of view in the above passage.
What is "2nd person"?
This is the tool you use to mark important words in a passage or question.
What is "Highlight"?
Marcus invited me to dinner. I already had plans that night.
This is the correct way to most effectively combine the two sentences above.
What is "Marcus invited me to dinner, but I already had plans that night." OR "Marcus invited me to dinner; however, I already had plans that night."
This is the turning point or the high point of a story.
What is "the climax"?
These are the 3 basic author's purposes.
What is "to entertain, to persuade, to inform"?
"Be careful," the bus driver said as Stanley walked down the steps.
Stanley wasn't sure if the bus driver meant for him to be careful going down the steps, or if he was telling him to be careful at Camp Green Lake. "Thanks for the ride," he said. His mouth was dry and his throat hurt. He stepped onto the hard, dry dirt.
This is the point of view in the above passage (be specific!).
What is "3rd person limited"?
This is the formula you write on your scratch paper when drafting your ECR.
What is "ACECECo"?
The cat was purring. I picked it up.
This is the correct way to most effectively combine the two sentences above.
What is "The cat was purring, so I picked it up" OR "Since/Because the cat was purring, I picked it up."?
This is the central idea, message, or purpose of a literary work.
This is the organizational structure used when arranging events or information in a text, based on the time they occurred.
What is "chronological order"?
"Let me remind you," Barney Northrup said, "the rent here is cheaper than what your old house costs in upkeep."
How would he know that, Jake wondered.
Grace stood before the front window where, beyond the road, beyond the trees, Lake Michigan lay calm and glistening. A lake view! Just wait until those so-called friends of hers with their classy houses see this place. The furniture would have to be reupholstered; no, she'd buy new furniture—beige velvet.
This is the point of view in the above passage (be specific!).
What is "3rd person omniscient"?
This is what you need to find to support your answer on every question.
What is "text evidence"?
Rosa was tired. She finished her homework on time.
This is the correct way to most effectively combine the two sentences above.
What is "Although/While Rosa was tired, she finished her homework on time."
These are the 5 parts of the plot pyramid, in order from start to finish.
What is "exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution"?
This is a sentence, in the introduction of an essay, that states the writer’s central idea or opinion on the topic of the essay.
What is "thesis/thesis statement"?
"Why didn't you come up to the attic?" Meg asked her brother, speaking as though he were at least her own age. "I've been scared stiff."
"Too windy up in that attic of yours," the little boy said. "I knew you'd be down. I put some milk on the stove for you. It ought to be hot by now."
How did Charles Wallace always know about her? How could he always tell?
This is the point of view in the above passage (be specific!).
What is "3rd person limited"?