Vocab
Narrative Writing
Essay Writing
Reading
MCAS Rules
100
A part of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged in a unit, like a paragraph
What is a stanza?
100
The graphic organizer used for narrative writing
What is SCEPS?
100
The graphic organizer used for essay writing
What is CER(ER)?
100
How many lines are in this poem? How many stanzas?
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
-- William Carlos Williams
8 lines, 4 stanzas
100
True or False: You can ask your neighbor a quick question about as long as you whisper.
False. No Talking AT ALL during MCAS!
200
The feelings of the author towards the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
200
Another word for a narrative is....
A story.
200
The punctuation that goes around a piece of evidence.
Quotation marks (Don't forget them!!!!)
200
True or False: You can read the questions first and skim though the article to try and find the answers.
False! READ EVERYTHING!
200
True or False: you are allowed to receive help from a teacher if you are really confused.
False
300
What a piece of reading is mostly about.
What is central idea?
300
The qualities that make up a person or thing.
What are Characteristics? (Your characters need to have good, descriptive characteristics!)
300
An argument that you can provide evidence to prove.
What is a claim?
300
A piece of writing where the only text is two or more speakers alternate lines of dialogue.
What is a play?
300
True or False: you are allowed to receive help from a teacher if your computer freezes.
True
400
To say or write something again in a different way.
What is retelling?
400
Describe this setting.
Leafy, tropical, lush, humid, warm, wet, watery.
400
What are the two parts of reasoning?
1. A paraphrase of the quote
2. A therefore statement to connect your evidence back to your claim.
400
A piece of writing that is one long piece of dialogue, usually given by someone famous.
What is a speech?
400
True or False: You can have extra time if you need it if you don't complete the test during the testing session.
True
500
when a writer appeals to a reader's senses by using descriptive and figurative language
What is imagery?
500
What 3 things is the prompt asking you to do?
Based on the excerpt from Julie of the Wolves, write a narrative that continues the events of the passage from Julie’s point of view. Use what you know about characters, setting, and events to write your narrative.
1. Write a narrative
2. Continue the story from Julie's point of view
3. Use SCEPS
500
What 3 things is the prompt asking you to do?
Write an essay that describes how Samuel in "My Brother Sam is Dead" and Charles in "Deep South" are heroic. Be sure to use information from both the passages to develop your essay.
1. Write an essay
2. Describe how Samuel and Charles are both heroic.
3. Use BOTH passages to write the essay (2 pieces of evidence, 1 from each passage).
500
The lesson or message you learn from a piece of text.
What is theme?
500
True or False: When you finish the MCAS, you can listen to music and play games to relax.
False