THINK, THINK, THINK!
[1] Our son has started playing organized T-ball, a beginner’s version of baseball. [2] “Organized” is what parents call it, anyway. [3] Joe is seven, living in those two or three years when they can manage to throw a baseball a few feet but when what they're really interested in are things closer at hand, bugs, butterflies, dirt (if they’re in the infield), grass (if they’re in the outfield). [4] Children of that age still think nothing of doing little dances in the outfield, often with their backs to home plate and, consequently, the batter. [5] It’s not as if the outfielders’ positions matter much, though—the ball never gets hit hard enough to reach there.
The writer wishes to add the following sentence in order to emphasize the uncertainty already expressed about an idea in the paragraph:
I still have doubts. The new sentence would best amplify and be placed after Sentence:
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
B. 2
Tool:
1. Name one word you should not choose on the test
2. Explain why...
*Opinion Words: Believe, Think, Should
**OR**
*Absolutes: Everyone, All, Always, Never
Smith realized the extent of her gift when her friend Alex Haley, who had gathered essential material critical to writing his best-selling novel Roots from a griot in Gambia
F. NO CHANGE
G. for
H. important to
J. that was essential to
G. for
Nevertheless, these tests convinced the officials of the value, of using the Navajo language in a code
F. NO CHANGE
G. officials, of the value
H. officials of the value
J. officials, of the value,
H. officials of the value
#1
Each team will write an explanation on what each word means OR when you would use it.
A. Furthermore,
B. Therefore,
C. However,
D. Whereas,
*I am not going to tell you the question...however, you MUST decide NOW if you will answer the
*BONUS QUESTION* which is worth an extra 200 points*!
Did we:
1. Explain furthermore?
2. Explain therefore?
3. Explain however?
200 BONUS POINTS:
Which answer choice would you have NOT picked and why?
If batters repeatedly fail to hit the ball—and lots of them do—the umpire is patient, giving them four or five chances instead of the usual three.
If the writer were to delete the word repeatedly and the phrase “and lots of them do” (and the dashes) from the preceding sentence, the sentence would primarily lose:
F. a tone of admiration for the work of the umpires.
G. details about the rules of T-ball.
H. an explanation of why children often fail to hit the ball.
J. a sense of how difficult the task is for the children.
J. a sense of how difficult the task is for the children.
Tool: Omit Means What?
*Delete
*Take Out
*Get Rid Of
#2
Be careful...
1. Each team must write a question focusing on word choice.
2. Each team must write four answer choices.
3. Each team must write the correct answer.
Did we:
1. Write a word choice question?
2. Include 4 answer choices?
3. Write the answer?
Outside Navajo communities, such exposure is rare, which greatly contributed to it’s success.
Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?
A. rare; this
B. rare this
C. rare. This
D. rare, a factor that
B. rare this
It’s not as if the outfielders’ positions matter much, though—the ball never gets hit hard enough to reach there.
A. No Change
B. outfielders' positions'
C. outfielders positions'
D. outfielderses positions
A. No Change
Clearly others recognize her as a valuable resource. [8] Smith is the official griot of both the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland; she has served as griot-in-residence at several universities.
The writer is considering deleting the phrase “at several universities” from Sentence 8. If the phrase were deleted, the essay would primarily lose:
A. an essential link to the paragraph that follows.
B. a contrast for the purpose of making a comparison.
C. information that qualifies the term griot-in-residence.
D. an unnecessary detail.
C. information that qualifies the term griot-in-residence.
#3
Tool:
Each team must write 1 tool (not one that has already been used in this jeopardy game) and write an explanation about the tool.
For Full Credit:
1. Did we write one tool that we haven't discussed in this jeopardy game?
2. Did we write an explanation about the tool?
Today, Smith’s repertoire is so vast that she could speak consecutively for twelve hours straight without running out of material.
A. NO CHANGE
B. continuously nonstop
C. perpetually
D. OMIT the underlined portion
D. OMIT the underlined portion
[1] When storyteller Mary Carter Smith practices her art and everybody listens.
A. NO CHANGE
B. Smith, practices her art
C. Smith, practices her art,
D. Smith practices her art,
D. Smith practices her art,
What do each one of these words mean?
A. There
B. Their
C. They're
D. Too
A. There...place...over there
B. Their...possession...it is their coat
C. They're...contraction...they are going...if you can't say "they are" then it is not the answer
D. Too...also...much.. I want to go too. There is too much money in the ice cream jar!
“Hearing that was like a man who has shoed horses all his life being told, ‘You’re a blacksmith!’” she recalls.
Given that all the choices are quotations from Mary Carter Smith, which one would best support the argument the writer is making concerning Smith’s belated discovery of her own talent?
F. NO CHANGE
G. “You’ve got to reveal truths to your listeners,” she says.
H. “Through his novel Roots, Alex Haley was in some ways performing the function of a griot for America,” she says.
J. “I’d say that one of the most crucial moments in my development as a storyteller is the few hours I once spent listening to a griot in West Africa,” she recalls.
F. NO CHANGE
#2
Tool:
;
If you can't put a:
. (period),
*****then you can't put a*****
; (semicolon)
[1] Our son has started playing organized T-ball, a beginner’s version of baseball. [2] “Organized” is what parents call it, anyway. [3] Joe is seven, living in those two or three years when they can manage to throw a baseball a few feet
F. NO CHANGE
G. children
H. he
J. some of them
G. children
#4
Here we go?
Here we go,
Here we go!
Here we go:
1. Each team will write a question with four answer choices and each is acceptable EXCEPT one.
Did We:
1. Write a question with four answer choices?
2. Are three of the answer choices acceptable?
3. Is one answer choice NOT acceptable?
Test Day:
How many questions are on the English part of the ACT test and with no "accommodation of extra time" how much time do you have?
A. 75 questions in 35 minutes
B. 75 questions in 40 minutes
C. 75 questions in 45 minutes
D. None of these are correct
C. 75 questions in 45 minutes
#5
Are You Ready?
Each team will...
1. Write their own test question
2. Create 4 answer choices
3. Write the answer
**You better make sure it is RIGHT!
What is the Tool?
You MUST explain it to get full credit
1. Unique
2. Idiosyncratic
3. Special
4. Unusual
Tool: Do NOT pick the word that you do NOT know or haven't heard someone say it often.
And though many of the stories are intended to make the audience laugh, Smith is fully aware of the other values of storytelling. Indeed, she identifies strongly with the griots of West Africa—those village storytellers where they use songs, poems, and narration to help preserve and transmit culture and history.
F. NO CHANGE
G. Well,
H. However,
J. At once,
F. NO CHANGE
but when what they’re really interested in are things closer at hand, bugs, butterflies, dirt (if they’re in the infield), grass (if they’re in the outfield).
A. NO CHANGE
B. hand, bugs, butterflies, dirt,
C. hand: bugs, butterflies, dirt
D. hand: bugs, butterflies, dirt,
C. hand: bugs, butterflies, dirt
The next man was coming up across the stage, a tall lean fellow with a great shock of white-yellow hair. As he reached the mark, and held out his hand for Harry's script, he looked at the people in the seats in front of him, and his face fell open.
"Well, well," he said, his wide blue gaze aimed behind Bellamy. He had a marked Rebel accent. "It's the girls from the Brooklyn Hotel."
Bellamy, surprised, twisted to look behind him. Lily was leaning forward, staring at the white-haired man. Charlie clutched at her arm in his ritual fit of jealousy, and Eva cried, "Oh, I remember you!"
According to the passage, the face of the man with white-yellow hair "fell open" during his audition because he was:
A. horrified that he had momentarily forgotten his lines.
B. surprised by the sight of familiar faces in the audience.
C. overcome with gratitude for being given a part in the play.
D. trying to express an aspect of the character whose lines he was reading.
B. surprised by the sight of familiar faces in the audience.