Always Strategies
This can usually be found by reading the title and the blurb.
What is main idea?
0r What is author's purpose?
This strategy helps you find the theme of a poem.
What is find the shift?
What do the letters in the Acronym RACEE Stand for?
What are Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, and end?
In this part of the poem the mood changes, or the speaker realizes a truth he or she hasn't known before.
What is the shift?
the number of questions on the English II EOC.
What is 68?
The acronym SAPS stands for these aspects of a piece of literature.
What is Speaker, Audience, Purpose, and Structure?
This strategy helps you define a word that comes in the first part or last part of a sentence, by changing the direction of the sentence.
What is "Watch the but"?
Items that should always be included in the restate sentence.
What are author, title, genre, and keywords?
This is the pattern of the end rhyme throughout the poem.
What is the rhyme scheme?
The number of constructed responses on the English II EOC.
What is four?
Always look for these types of questions to help you answer each other.
What are connected questions?
This strategy involves going back to the text after you have narrowed your choices down to 2 or 3.
What is specific thinking?
What is textual evidence?
Most often writers of poems and speeches use this literary device to emphasize an important idea.
Repetition
Students must be in the classroom at this time on their designated EOC day.
What is 7:45?
This strategy acronym always makes me think of the writer who wrote "The Raven."
What is process of elimination?
This strategy can be used after narrowing your choices down to 2 when you are unable to find a specific detail from the test to support either answer.
What is Big Picture thinking?
This part of the CR should sum up the paragraph and convey a broad real world idea.
What is the End statement?
The chunks of text in a poem.
What are Stanzas?
Points students can add to their 3rd 6-weeks average by meeting their growth target on the English II EOC.
What is 5?
Always use this strategy when answering a constructed response writing prompt.
What is RACEE?
This strategy can be used when answering a question about a poem. After eliminating all but two answers, it involves avoiding the concrete answer.
What is Literal vs. Figurative?
These three parts of the CR are worth the most points.
What are the answer, citations, and explanations?
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" This line from Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative poem “The Raven” is an example of this literary device.
Consonance
What are getting out of seat during breaks, using scratch paper strategies, and using the race strategy.