Fiction
Nonfiction
Writing
Budget Your Time
I'm Feeling Lucky!
100

This is the time and place of a story.

What is the setting?

100
This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author gives information about a problem and explains one or more ways to fix that problem.
What is Problem & Solution?
100

This is the writing task that requires you to continue/write an original story based on one fictional story.

What is the Narrative?

100

What is the first question you should answer after reading both texts each day?

The essay.
100

This is the testing tool that you can use to mark important information in the text as you are reading.

What is the highlighter?

200
This is the struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
What is the conflict?
200

This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author discusses similarities and differences between people, things, concepts, or ideas.

What is Compare & Contrast?

200

This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on two fictional passages.

What is the Literary Analysis?

200
This is the maximum amount of time that you should spend writing your thesis statement.
What is 5 minutes?
200
These are the definitions for (1) synonym and (2) antonym.
What are (1) synonyms - words that mean the same and (2) antonyms - words that mean the opposite?
300
This is the part of the plot in which the loose ends are tied up and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
300

These are the three annotations we use for non-fiction/informational texts to best prepare us for the questions.

What is teach, point of view, and main idea?

300

This is the writing task that requires you to write an essay based on three nonfiction sources.

What is the Research Task Simulation?

300
This is the maximum amount of time that you should spend planning your story for the Narrative.
What is 15 minutes?
300

What are the three writing types you can be responding to a writing prompt with? (hint: the "K" in the PACK acronym)

Kind: Story, Essay, Letter

400
This is the phrase used to describe the perspective from which the narrator tells the story.
What is narrative point of view?
400

This is what you should be looking for in both informational PARCC texts that you read. In your Research Simulation Task you will be including these between the two articles. 

Similarities

400

This is the strong sentence that uses keywords from the prompt and states the main point of your essay that you should include as the last sentence of your introduction.

What is the thesis statement?

400
This is the approximate amount of time that you should spend on writing (after prewriting/before revising and editing) each day.
What is 30 minutes?
400

This is the first thing that you should do before reading the passage(s) each day of testing.

Read the essay prompt. 

500
This is the truth or central idea a story reveals about life; this may also be called the lesson or moral.
What is the theme?
500

This is the nonfiction text structure in which the author describes an event or several events and the events that follow and happen after. 

What is Cause & Effect?

500

This is the only writing task that does not require a thesis statement.

What is the Narrative?

500

This is the amount of time you should spend revising and editing your writing before moving onto your final passage (remember, you can always go back with extra time!).

What is 5 minutes?

500

What does it mean to unPACK the prompt before answering?

P- Look for the purpose of writing

A-All about--what is the question asking you

C--Citation--what text(s) are you using

K-Kind: What kind of response are you writing?

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