Essays
These are the two types of essays on the EOC
What are argumentative and informational?
Is it true that if you've read a passage before or know what it says, you don't really need to read it again on a test?
What is no? You always need to read before answering questions.
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
The key concept of a non-fiction text
What is the main idea?
There are this many days of testing
What is 3?
What paragraph does an argumentative essay have that an informative essay does not have?
What is a counterclaim?
A majority of the points on your EOC come from these types of questions
What are multiple choice questions?
The central idea of a fictional work. It should be applicable to the real world.
What is a theme?
Four things you must know before analyzing a non-fiction text.
What are the speaker, audience, purpose, and subject?
(I will accept tone and exigency as well.)
The EOC accounts for this amount of your grade
What is 20%?
What is the primary difference between an argumentative and an informative essay?
The purpose of the speaker.
(One is to simply inform; the other is to persuade)
A constructed response needs these three things.
What are a claim, data, and link?
Third-person objective is an example of this.
What is point of view?
When asked the meaning of a word, you should re-read which sentence(s)?
What is the sentence before the word is used; the sentence the word is used, and the sentence after the word is used?
This day of testing is the longest
What is the first day?
Where should your thesis go?
At the end of your introduction paragraph.
You should include this many pieces of evidence in a constructed response.
What is two?
To obtain information from evidence and reasoning rather than direct statements.
What is to infer?
When asked about making a revision to a student's essay, you should focus on maintaining this tone.
What is a formal (or professional) tone?
You will write this many essays and narratives (combined)
What is 3?
If you don't have time to finish an essay, this is the first paragraph you should cut.
What is the third body paragraph?
What are read the introductory information and read over the questions for the passage?
The definition of dramatic irony.
What is knowing things that characters do not know?
Chronological, compare and contrast, and cause and effect are examples of what?
Most of you are testing in one of these two rooms
What is 130 or 210?