Fiction
Nonfiction
Argumentative Writing
Testing Tools
Stretch Your Thinking
100
Fiction authors use these descriptive types of phrases to create pictures in your mind.
What is figurative language?
100
Words or phrases we use at the beginning of our topic sentences to introduce our reasons.
What are transitions?
100
The part you need in argumentative writing that you don't need in informative writing?
What is a counterlcaim?
100
The tool you can use to help you answer this type of question.
What are sticky notes?
100
Techniques the author uses to make the writing interesting. For example, figurative language, text structures, foreshadowing, flashbacks, etc.)
What is author's craft?
200
The life message of the story. We can apply this type of message to our own lives.
What is theme?
200
The sentence that follows the hook in an informational or argumentative writing.
What is a claim or thesis?
200
Explain why you have to have a counterclaim.
To acknowledge that not everyone may agree with you.
200
Use this strategy if you want to cover up part of the story so you can focus on one or two paragraphs at a time.
What is chunking?
200
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
300
This part of a fiction story includes the setting, main events (rising action, climax, falling action), and resolution.
What is the plot?
300
Where we state our evidence and warrants in our essay.
What are body paragraphs?
300
What is the end goal of a counterclaim?
to prove what you have to say is STRONGER than what the other side has to say about the issue
300
The most helpful tool to use when preparing for the writing part of the test. HINT: You will use this tool as you read both passages.
What is a planning sheet?
300
What is the purpose of lines 5-6 in the poem below:
As I look across a field of green, I dream.
I look to the stars and wonder just how far, and I dream.
I dream of worlds beyond where peace and love are one, and so I dream.
If worlds like that exist and can live in heavenly bliss, why can't we?
Allow me to dream
To show the reader that the narrator of the poem is unhappy with the chaos or fighting in the world.
400
When the characters change throughout the story.
What is character development?
400
When you explain your thinking about your evidence.
What is elaboration?
400
When you're giving evidence, in addition to transition words, what other information do you need to provide?
What is the author's name and title of the work.
400
Use these when you are stuck on the meaning of a word. HINT: The sentences before or after the word can help you figure out the meaning.
What are context clues?
400
Why does the author repeat the word dream in the poem below?
As I look across a field of green, I dream.
I look to the stars and wonder just how far, and I dream.
I dream of worlds beyond where peace and love are one, and so I dream.
If worlds like that exist and can live in heavenly bliss, why can't we?
Allow me to dream
To show that the narrator has HOPE for a better world.
500
The three parts of a story where we can learn how the characters are developing or have developed.
What is the beginning, middle, and end?
500
TRUE or FALSE. This is the not the correct way to cite evidence.
According to the CEO of Nike, "Our company made over $1 million dollars in profit within 1 month."
FALSE. It is the correct way.
500
What do you have to do to evidence if you're going to copy it word-for-word to show you're not plagiarizing?
Put it in quotation marks (and give title of work and author).
500
Name at least two strategies or tools you can use to help answer multiple choice questions.
What is:
Process of elimination, ranking most important details (on multiple selection questions), cover up multiple choice answers, use planning sheet.
500
Techniques the author uses to make the writing interesting. For example, figurative language, text structures, foreshadowing, flashbacks, etc.)
What is author's craft?