The only type of writing you will do on the actual STAAR Test.
What is expository or expository writing?
100
The most annoying character in the entire play.
Who is woman?
100
He is the only non-president to have a national day of remembrance for the work he did during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
She is enormously fat.
Who is Mrs. Fezziwig?
100
A fragment that contains both a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
200
The number of paragraphs your essay should have.
What is 4?
200
This type of figurative language was used to describe the neighbors as "scared, frightened rabbits."
What is a metaphor?
200
This set of laws also known as the Jim Crow Laws, allowed states to have separate but equal public facilities for whites and blacks.
What is segregation?
200
The year the play took place.
What is 1843?
200
This is an action that was.
What is past perfect?
300
The lowest possible essay score a student can receive on a STAAR essay and still hope to pass.
What is 2?
300
The creator and writer of The Twilight Zone
Who is Rod Serling?
300
Along with Lewis, this man is credited as having settled and explored most of what is now the western part of the United States.
Who is Clark?
300
The first and only name of Scrooge's long lost love.
Who is Belle?
300
A statement in support of a particular truth, fact, or claim.
What is a testimonial?
400
This step in the writing process involves improving information you already have in your rough draft.
What is revising?
400
These ended up being the real enemies in Monsters.
What are fears?
Also acceptable: What are ideas? Who are the neighbors themselves? What are thoughts? What are prejudices?
400
This leader of Germany used generalizations to convince the German people that Jewish Germans were all bad people.
Who is Hitler?
400
Two dolls or kids that Present awkwardly presented to Scrooge from beneath his robe each had one word names. One was named Ignorance. The second was named this.
What is Want?
400
Your personality in your writing.
What is voice?
500
The amount of hours you should spend on the multiple choice portion of the STAAR Writing Test.
What is 2?
500
The exact time on Maple Street when something first appears.
What is 6:43 P.M.?
500
This teenage girl hid with her family in a friend's basement to avoid being caught and killed for being Jewish in Germany during World War II.
Who is Anne Frank?
500
The disease that most historians agree Tiny Tim most likely had.
What is polio?
500
I am used between compound adjectives, numbers, and compound nouns.