Essay
Name something you should do before you begin writing your draft.
Acceptable answers:
Brainstorm
Plan
Outline
What is the difference between revising and editing?
Editing is fixing grammar mistakes while revising is improving the wording of your essay.
Non-Fiction means
Not-Fake
(Informational texts or true stories, such as biography or history)
First person point of view gives you insight into
A. The main characters thoughts and feelings
B. Dialogue
C. All characters thoughts and feelings
D. The events taking place in the story
A. The main characters thoughts and feelings
The three sections of a STAAR test (and this common assessment are:
1. Revising and Editing
2. Writing (essay)
3. Reading
The most important sentence in your essay is the
THESIS STATEMENT
Teens should have been giving this earlier form of music recording a chance and experience vinyl records for themselves.
What change needs to be made in the sentence?
A. Change should have been giving to should give
B. Change earlier to earliest
C. Insert a comma after chance
D. Change themselves to themselfs
A. Change should have been giving to should give
When the story is structured by the order in which events occurred, this is known as
Chronological Order
It was a dark and stormy night.
What mood has the author created?
A. Ominous
B. Optimistic
C. Exciting
D. Shady
A. Ominous
Which of the following should you annotate:
A. Revising and editing passages
B. Reading passages
C. Your own essay
B. Reading passages
How many paragraphs should your essay be?
Four
(minimum 3)
Decade’s ago vinyl records provided music lovers with a way to enjoy recorded music.
What change is needed in the sentence?
A Change Decade’s to Decades
B Change provided to provides
C Change lovers to lover’s
D Change recorded to recording
A Change Decade’s to Decades
There is no need to ruin the beauty of nature by corrupting it with unnecessary technology!
The author seems:
A. Apprehensive about technology
B. Optimistic about technology
C. Spiteful towards nature
D. Bored
A. Apprehensive about technology
She walked away, head bowed and eyes watering, knowing that she had made a big mistake in falling for him.
What is the tone?
A. Anger
B. Regretful
C. Fearful
D. Frustrated
B. Regretful
Woosh, Bang, Zoom
These are examples of
Your thesis should contain two of the following:
A.Claims
B.Reasons
C.Examples
B. Reasons
The Taliban instituted harsh social policies often inforced by terrorist acts.
How should the sentence be changed?
F Change instituted to instituting
G Change policies to policy’s
H Change inforced to enforced
J Sentence should not be changed.
H Change inforced to enforced
Which sentence best supports the author’s belief that everyone is capable of success:
A. Many students face testing anxiety.
B. Testing anxiety is a condition in which students feel high levels of stress and tension, even if they do not often struggle with the subject matter.
C. There are strategies you can use, such as annotating a text, to help you feel confident if you face testing anxiety.
D. Many don't realize they have this condition and therefore do not take any measures to combat it.
C. There are strategies you can use, such as annotating a text, to help you feel confident if you face testing anxiety.
What is the difference between internal conflict and external conflict?
Internal conflict is when the character has a conflict within herself and external conflict is when the character has a conflict with the outside world.
How many points is the essay worth on the STAAR test?
16 points
What is an anecdote?
What is the correct way to write the sentences?
A The 11-year-old also began writing a diary it detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
B The 11-year-old also began writing a diary. With details about what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
C The 11-year-old also began writing a diary that detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
D The 11-year-old also began writing a diary. That detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
C The 11-year-old also began writing a diary that detailed what was happening in her region of Pakistan.
An informational text is TYPICALLY written in which POV (point of view)?
Third person
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is a central theme in this poem?
A. Nature is cyclical
B. Nothing is good forever
C. Nature can be beautiful but dangerous
D. Flowers only last an hour
B. Nothing is good forever
Which of the following means "not authorized or wanted?"
a. unwavering
b. unraveling
c. unwarrented
d. unorthodox
c. unwarrented