Vocabulary
SENTENCE COMPLETION
GRAMMAR-
CIZE!
Passage Reading
I Want to Pass the SAT!
100
These roots mean "Both" "On Both Sides"
What is Ambi/Amphi?
100
After reading the question, this is the first step you should ALWAYS take to correctly answer the sentence completion questions on the critical reading section.
What is FILL-IN-THE BLANKS with your own responses?
100
Lights... Camera... ACTION! These words are action words!!
What are verbs?
100
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. What is one strategy that you can use to succeed in this section?
(Up to Mr. T's discretion)
100
You have a question that didn't get addressed in class? This is when you can ask for clarification from Mr. T!
What is either: 1) During lunch OR 2) During office hours - M,T,TH, F From 2:10-3:30.
200
This root means "Good"
What is BENE?
200
After filling in the blanks with your own answer, this is the next step to correctly answering sentence completion questions.
What is either: 1.) comparing your answer to the multiple choice questions OR 2.) eliminating choices that do not match your answer.
200
TRUE or FALSE? You should pick answers because they sound right!
What is FALSE?!
200
Writing your main idea down after reading every paragraph - another name for this strategy that we've gone over in class.
What are Passage-Maps?
200
This is the best way to study for the SAT (at least the reading and writing portion).
What is READ FOR 20 MINUTES EVERY DAY?
300
This root means "Light." You must also come up with one word that uses this root!
What is PHOTO. (Acceptable vocabulary words to be determined by Mr. T)
300
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Corruption is ____ in our society; the integrity of even senior officials is ____ . A. growing - unquestioned B. endangered - disputed C. pervasive - intact D. rare - corrupted E. rife - suspect
What is E. RIFE-SUSPECT?
300
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. The number of Americans living in rural areas have decreased to unprecedented levels, with most farmers saying that their days in the country are numbered. No Error. A) Have Decreased B) With Most C) Their Days D) Are Numbered E) No Error
What is A) Have Decreased?
300
NOT just reading the words - actually thinking about what the words are saying is the key to success in this section. This is what this idea is called.
What is critically reading?
300
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Mr. T will pull up the graph titled "Education pays." This level of education seems to be where you are below the average of unemployed workers AND where you make at or above the average weekly salary of all workers.
What is an ASSOCIATES DEGREE (2 years of college).
400
This vocabulary word NORMALLY appears on the SAT. Seeing it on your test, in other words, MEETS THE USUAL EXPECTATIONS. The words in capitalized letters are your hints!
What is "conventionally"?
400
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with more data obtained from dubious sources. A. ascertain B. buttress C. refute D. absolve E. dispute
What is B. Buttress?
400
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Students, many of whom find themselves in nearly insurmountable debt, are compromising on their career ideals, taking jobs that, while in many cases highly lucrative, are often hardly inspiring. No Error A. Of Whom B. Are Compromising C. While D. Are E. No Error
What is E. No Error?
400
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Read the following paragraph and create an appropriate Passage Map for it. Outbreak control requires a coordinated series of medical services, along with a certain level of community engagement. The necessary medical services required include rapid detection and contact tracing, quick access to appropriate laboratory services, proper management of those who are infected, and proper disposal of the dead through cremation or burial. Prevention includes decreasing the spread of disease from infected animals to humans. This may be done by only handling potentially infected bush meat while wearing proper protective clothing and by thoroughly cooking it before consumption. It also includes wearing proper protective clothing and washing hands when around a person with the disease. Samples of bodily fluids and tissues from people with the disease should be handled with special caution.
UP TO MR. T's Discretion. Mr. T's Passage Map is: How to avoid Ebola.
400
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Mr. T will pull up the graph titled "SAT and Income." Look at the general trend of this information and complete this sentence: According to the graph it seems that the higher that I score on the SAT, the ............ money my household will make.
What is MORE?!
500
This word is over 50% likely to be on the SAT!! Your Greek and Latin Roots projects were this word, that is to say, had excellent taste/were pleasing to the eye.
What is "aesthetic"?
500
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. Our grandfather was an entertaining ____; he used to ____ us with marvelous anecdotes that we, in our childlike simplicity, accepted unquestioningly. A. rascal - bore B. orator - intimidate C. raconteur - regale D. curmudgeon - surprise E. tyrant - stupefy
What is C. RACONTEUR - REGALE?
500
WHOLE CLASS - you have the next 2 minutes to answer the following question. Mr. T will come around for your answers. If you do not answer in 5 seconds, you will be skipped. James Hillhouse High School, a place that is going through many changes this year, is enormous, often chaotic, and many of its teachers* love coming to school everyday. No Error A. Is going B. Is C. Often Chaotic D. Many of its teachers E. No Error
What is D. Many of its teachers?
500
When answering Critical Reading Questions, you should answer the line-specific questions FIRST and then go back to answer the general questions if you have time. This is the reason why.
Critical Reading Questions tend to go in order of the text. When you answer the line-specific questions, you can re-read chunks of the entire text without using more of your time up.
500
I will call upon the first three groups that answer to answer this question: Why do YOU want to pass the SAT?
Answers will/should vary.
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