MCAS Trivia
The date of the ELA MCAS
What is March 26 and 27
What is read through the questions and the prompt?
You should use this to support your claim in a thesis.
What are reasons?
What analyzing means
What is reading and interpreting text closely and carefully?
To give human qualities to non-human things is ________________.
What is personification?
How much time are you given to complete the exam?
What is as much time as you need as long as you are working (not sleeping!).
Once I have a focus on what I am reading for, as I begin reading I should:
What is highlight corresponding text?
If I'm writing in support of one side of a topic, what type of essay is it?
What is argument?
A sequence is _______
What is the order in which events happen
A struggle between opposing forces
What is a conflict?
True or False- you will need to take MCAS again in 11th grade.
What is only if you don't pass in 10th?
What should I do before I read the passage?
What is skim the questions to pick out what I should be looking for.
I should make one of these to organize my thoughts before I begin writing.
What is a graphic organizer or outline
Describe means to _____
What is to give details?
Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant sounds
The month of the Math MCAS
What is May
As I'm reading and highlighting, there is a tool that I can use to annotate the text. This is called:
What is notepad?
The conclusion should always restate this
What is a claim or thesis?
To support your claim is to. ____
What is to back it up; to find reasons and evidence
Allusion
What is a reference to another work?
What is Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?
If I truly don't know an answer, I should:
What person is narrative writing told in?
What is first person?
Inferring information from the text is ___
What is figuring something out even though it isn't specifically mentioned; to read between the lines
Examples of this include: "hissed," "crackle," and "splash."
What is onomatopoeia?