Soft Skills
What are the four soft skills concepts?
1. Context
2. Add/delete
3. Pointers
4. Graph
What are the four ss/punct. concepts?
1. complete/incomplete
2. DON
3. Colon
4. Comma
What are the six line-it-up (Liu) concepts?
Bonus Points
1. Verb Tense
2. Subject-verb agreement
3. Parallelism
4. Pronoun/noun
5. Faulty Comparison
6. Misplaced Modifier
How do we identify transition questions?
1. Look both ways when you cross the street
2. 2 ways it's tested: mapping, can't have 2 transitions in the same sentence
What are the three EAR strategies?
1. Synonym
2. Homophones
3. Preposition/idiom
Show the following problem:
1. Identify which soft skill concept it is and the call and response for it.
2. Question: Exam 3, Question 13.
1. Context: color words in the answer stem, color words in the answer choices, context, CHOP!
Answer: C
How do you identify ss/punct questions?
Answer:
1. complete vs. incomplete + half stop vs. full stop
2. double or nothing: have to be able to pick the phrase up and read around it to be DON
3. Colon:
List
Example
Elaboration
4. Commas:
DON, List, Complete incomplete, Transition, FANBOYS
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 9, Question 39
Concept: Parallelism
Answer: C
Answer: B
Exam 3, Question 11
Answer: Ear: preposition
B
Show the following problem:
1. Identify which soft skill concept it is and the call and response for it.
2. Question: Exam 10, Question 27.
https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-practice-test-10.pdf
1. Soft Skills: graph - ALUK, color words
2. Answer: D
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 6, Question 29
Answer: B
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 1, Question 24
Concept: Misplaced Modifier
Answer: D
Exam 9, Question 27
Answer: A
Exam 7, Questions A
A
Show the following problem:
1. Identify which soft skill concept it is and the call and response for it.
2. Question: Exam 6, Question 16.
1. Add/delete:
color words in the excerpt (just the thing you’re adding/deleting)
patterns in the answer choices (yes/yes/no/no)
color words in the answer choices
context
chop (2 rounds)
[1] false
[2] relevance
2. Answer: B
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 8, Question 44
Commas: C
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 8, question 42
Concept: Verb Tense
Answer: D
Exam 8, Question 31
Answer: B
Exam 9, Question 18
D
Show the following problem:
1. Identify which soft skill concept it is and the call and response for it.
2. Question: Exam 1, Question 5.
1. Concept: Soft Skills Pointers
3 Ts of poinTTTers:
T words:look for a t word in the sentence - this/these/those/the/that/t pronouns
what does it refer back to? Circle and draw an arrow
Time: what comes before/after?
Transitions: are there transitions you can map?
2. Answer: C
Find the Concept and answer the question
Exam 9, Question 14
Concept: Colon
Answer: B
Find the Concept and answer the question:
Exam 6, Question 30
Concept: Faulty Comparison
Answer: C
Exam 5, Question 43
Answer: A
Concept: Ear - Preposition + Homophones
A