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100
This is the type of essay you should write from this question:
"You've just read three texts about climate change. Write a speech that explains to readers the many ways climate change is affecting our planet."
What is Informative/Explanatory?
100
These are some strategies to stay calm during a test.
What is to take deep breaths, stay positive, and remember that you've prepared well?
100
The Central Idea of a Nonfiction text is the same concept as this in a fiction text.
What is a theme?
100
This common 4 legged animal never walks or trots.
What is a rabbit?
200
This is the type of essay you should write from this question:
"You have just read the excerpt from the popular story 'Snow White.' Please write an alternative ending to the story from Paragraph 15. You may use dialogue in your writing."
What is Narrative?
200
This is what you should do if you're not sure about the answer to a multiple-choice question.
What is process of elimination?
200
This is the format of a five paragraph ARGUMENTATIVE essay.
What is an intro, two body paragraphs, a counter-argument paragraph, and conclusion?
200
This was the first NFL team to win the Vince Lombardi Championship five times.
Who are the San Francisco 49ers?
300
This is the type of essay you should write from this question (This is right from the new NJSLA):
"Write an essay for your school newspaper arguing whether playing video games significantly affects physical healthy. Your essay must be based on the ideas, concepts, and information that can be determined through the analysis of "Do Video Games Have a Major Effect on Players' Physical Health?" sources.
What is an Argumentative Essay?
300
This is what you should do before reading a passage.
What is read the questions?
300
In Narrative Writing, this is the details you give to "paint a picture" of the story.
What are sensory details (or imagery)?
300
Between 1659 and 1681, this holiday was illegal to celebrate in Massachusetts.
What is Christmas?
400
Name three qualities your narrative writing should have!
Three of these:
- Dialogue
- A Logical Sequence (beginning, middle, and end)
- Characters
- Sensory Language
-Transitions
400
When you encounter a word you do not know, this is what you should do to guess the meaning of it.
What is using context clues?
400
This is the difference between a text's mood and tone.
What is the audiences' feelings and the author's feelings?
400
There are four main instrument families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. Of these four, this is the oldest of the four.
What is the woodwinds?
Neanderthal Flute
500
Provide a counterargument for this opinion:
Contact sports (e.g., football, hockey, soccer) carry significant risks of acute and chronic injuries, most notably traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), concussions, and CTE. Repeated impacts can cause long-term neurological damage, memory loss, and behavioral changes.
Mr. Kurpick, Mr. Wood, you be the judges!
500
This is what you should do when you finish the last question of the test or the essay portion.
What is REVIEW YOUR WORK?!
500
After rephrasing your thesis to begin your conclusion paragraph, this is the question you should think to yourself as you write the rest of the paragraph.
What is "Why does this matter?"?
500
This is the only United States president who was elected unopposed.
Who was George Washington?