What is the last sentence in your introductory paragraph?
100
The last sentence in a paragraph.
What is the concluding sentence?
100
When you use words and phrases in a sentence or paragraph to determine the meaning of a word you don't know.
What is Using Context Clues?
100
The length of your Final Exam.
What is 2 full class periods.
100
The part of your paper that includes your last name and the page number, located on the upper right-hand side of all of your MLA-formatted essays.
What is the header?
200
The types of questions we typically use as introductions and conclusions, those in which the answer is so strongly implied, the questions don't need an answer.
What are rhetorical questions?
200
The first sentence in the Body Paragraph Structure.
What is the Topic Sentence?
200
Marking your text by highlighting, underlining, and writing marginal notes for later reference.
What is annotate?
200
Suggested Strategies for the first day of your Final Exam, the Reading Portion. (There are four.)
What is 1) Read the questions, 2) Read/Annotate the text, 3) Complete the Short Answer questions, 4) Create a sentence Outline.
200
The parenthetical citation found in the body of your paper.
What is an in-text citation?
300
The first skill in the Intro Paragraph Structure, meant to engage your reader.
What is a hook?
300
A transitional word/phrase, language from the thesis statement, and a new main idea that will be the focus of the paragraph.
What are the three things an effective topic sentence should have?
300
The first level of Reading, where the answers are found directly stated in the text.
What is Reading Comprehension?
300
Creating a sentence outline is recommended because of this.
What is the "Writing Process Category" on the Rubric.
300
The list of outside sources that a writer uses on his or her paper, which is on a separate sheet of paper at the end of the essay.
What is a Works Cited page?
400
The skill in the Intro Paragraph Structure that comes between the restatement of the prompt and the thesis statement.
What is a 2-sentence summary of the article?
400
The sentences that ask you to draw on your own observations and experiences in your essay.
What are commentary sentences?
400
The second level of Reading, where you must draw meaning from the text and the answers are NOT directly stated.
What is Making Inference? or Drawing Conclusions? Inferential Reading Comprehension?
400
The first strategy of Day #2, The Writing Portion.
What is Check Your Sentence Outline?
400
An example of when you can leave the author's name out of the parenthetical in-text citation.
What is when there is no author, or if the author's name appears in the lead-in/signal phrase.
500
Two important things included in the Restatement of the Prompt skill in your Intro Paragraph Structure.
What are the title, author, main idea. (There are three, any two of these are acceptable.)
500
The text that you've integrated into your essay for support.
What are concrete details?
500
The third level of Reading, where you must make connections between the text and the world around you.
What is Applied Reading Comprehension?
500
Why does Ms. Schmidt urge you to be on time both days of the exam?
She urges students to be on time because she goes over the questions on the test, including the essay question, at the beginning, and to ensure that students have as much test-taking time as possible to write a full essay.
500
The DIFFERENCES between a regular in-text citation and a block quotation. (There are four.)
What are 1) 4 lines or more, 2) no quotation marks,
3) double-indented text, 4) period comes before the parenthetical in-text citation