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A sentence that is missing either a subject or a verb (predicate).
What is a sentence fragment?
100
This is the reason an author writes something.
What is his/her purpose?
100
True or False You absolutely must read the stories in the writing section!
What is False. (explain)
100
What is the first thing you should do on the essay?
What is cut out all the extra information and look at the actual question.
100
What is the acronym you can use to remember how to organize your short answer questions?
What is APE?
200
A sentence has two full sentences (two subjects and two predicates) divided by a conjunction.
What is a time that you need to use a comma.
200
Using the phrase, "the author thinks ___X____ about life and human nature." is an easy way to find this about a story.
What is a theme?
200
To answer questions about replacing a word or phrase, it is not important to read the original sentence. How would you go about answering these questions?
What is cross out the "bad" word/phrase and substitute the answer choices until one sounds right.
200
What are the 3 things graders really looking at on your essay?
What is your organization, ability to stay on topic, and grammar/spelling.
200
What two things belong in the introduction of your essay?
What is a thesis and a hook sentence?
300
A statement that is repeating information already said or adding information that doesn't go with the story/idea.
What is redundant?
300
Unfortunately you must do this to more accurately answer the questions to the reading section.
What is read the stories! (they aren't all bad!)
300
Catherine would like to provide a more detailed thesis statement, help her! a) Instead, Baumgartner was high about Earth -- 24 miles to be exact-- and jumped without a jet. b) Instead, Baumgartner, who was 24 miles about Earth at the time, jumped out of a capsule and proceeded to free-fall, traveling at speeds of more than 800 miles per hour.
What is B. It is more detailed. Read questions carefully!!
300
After you finish writing your essay what should you do next?
What is come back in a few minutes and re-read it. Check for spelling/grammar and make sure it MAKES SENSE!
300
What are the graders looking for on your SAQ?
What is how you back up your answer. Can you prove that your answer is in the story/stories?
400
This is added to words to show possession or, in the case of pronouns, to show a contraction. Ex: The husband's baseball shirt. Don't touch its food! It's saving it!
What is an apostrophe?
400
It is important to remember that answers in this section are rarely _________. They like to keep things very Disney.
What is negative?
400
What are two things to remember about questions like this? How should sentence 6 be change? a) change commissioned to comissioned b) change ships to ship's c) change pirate to Pirate d) sentence 6 should not be changed.
What is a time you must use a dictionary and at time to immediately check "d" last.
400
The #1 best thing you can do to make the essay easier to write and stay on topic and organized is what?
What is PLAN!
400
If you start feeling sleepy what can you do to stay awake?
What is drink some water, splash water on your face, go to the bathroom to stretch, take a MINUTE and daydream or doodle on your test.
500
What part of speech is "harmless" in the following sentence? How do you know? He ran harmlessly into a table!
What is an adverb?
500
What should you do next? 1. Read the questions for story # 1 2. Read story # 1 3. Answer ALL questions for story # 1 4. See if there is a Short Answer Question for story # 1 (assume there is) 5. ______________________
What is find quotes in the story to support the SAQ and then write your SAQ.
500
When looking at how sentences should be combined you should start with the two shorter answer choices, but when looking at how sentences should be revised you should do what?
What is start with the two longer answer choices. *BEWARE*
500
True or False If you think you are going to run out of time the best thing you can skip on the test is the Essay.
What is FALSE
500
What is the only time it is acceptable to guess on a question?
What is when time is almost up, it is the reading section and there is no short answer question attached to the story, and you've already gone through and answered as many questions as you can about the story without reading it.
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