Fiction
Expository
Persuasion
Murder Mystery
Misc
100

The named of the Japanese story where the elderly are forced to be banished from the town until a man's mother solves three problems for the town.

The Wise Old Woman

100

This goes on the left side for annotation.

Main Idea

100

This is the name for a common mistake people make when reasoning.

fallacy

100

The person guilty of murder.

Denna Miller

100

TCCT is used in what STAAR situation?

When there are two passages back to back.

200

This person's job was to intimidate people into doing the king's bidding.

The Discourager of Hesitancy

200
Bold words that introduce a new section to a passage.

Subheading

200

An argument is a claim supported by-

Reasons and Evidence

200

The person who stabbed Jade Mortem, but did not kill her.

Sakashi Sato

200

The two UIL events Mr. Maddox coaches

Ready Writing and Editorial Writing

300

The title given to the man who loves the princess and must choose between two doors.

Courtier

300

The Reconstruction Era took place between these two decades.

The 1860s and 1870s

300

In persuasion, when you anticipate an opponents argument and respond to it in order to defeat it.

Counterargument

300

The crime Jade Mortem was committing towards principal Anthony Keats.

Black mail

300

Mastery on the STAAR means getting this score or higher.

86%

400

Bazarov holds back his feelings because he believes in this philosophical worldview.

Nihilism

400

The reason a passage was written.  Use annotation to help answer these questions.

Author's purpose

400

The fallacy name for attacking the person's character rather than their argument.

Ad hominem

400
One piece of evidence why Denna Miller committed the crime.

Hand size, gone from dinner, jealous of Jade

400

This type of question appears on the STAAR reading exam more than any other question.

Inferencing

500

What causes Steve to question himself at the end of Monster?

O'brien refuses his hug after the trial.

500

These are two things the "Black Codes" did to make black lives harder in the South.

illegal to hold public office, to travel freely, or to serve on juries.  No job means jail time.

500

The fallacy made in the following sentence, "I know Mr. Maddox wouldn't lie to be because he told me so and he's always honest."

Begging the question (circular reasoning)

500

The reason we knew Sakashi's stabbing wasn't murder.

Lack of blood means the victim was already dead
500

The names of every musician on the purple wall.

Bob Dylan, Chance the Rapper and Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)

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