Essays
Annotations
POE
Genre
Test strategies…
100

How many paragraphs should an essay have?

4

100

What are the first annotations you should put on your paper?

GAT

100

Reading directions and the text is which step of POE?

Step 1

100

This genre of text is about true events, places, things or people


Non-fiction 

100

Keep this item in your hands at all times

Pencil 

200

What is the acronym for writing a strong introduction paragraph?
Extra points if you write out what each letter stands for


HOT 

hook, overview, thesis 

200

What is the annotation focus for fiction text?

4Cs

200

If you are missing Step 3 of POE, what do you need to add to your paper?

Prediction 

200

This genre is composed of made up events, places, things or people

Fiction

200

Keep your __________ on your own paper and your __________ off.

eyes ; voice

300

________________+ _________________= a Strong Thesis

Body paragraph argument 1 + Body paragraph argument 2

300

Annotation focus for non-fiction next?

SC - -> AC

300

Should you read the questions before or after you read the text?


AFTER!

300

This genre tells the story of a person's entire life and is written by themselves

auto-biography 

(no just "biography", isn't correct) 

300

The most important meal to help you focus during testing days?

breakfast 

400

A zoom out is used to explain…


1. why your evidence is important 

2. how your evidence supports/connects to your argument 

400

End note for non-fiction text? 

How do you make it?

Author's claim  made by synthesizing all of your sub-claims 

400

What does the code “TG” mean?

too general 

400

A genre of text where the narrator is telling a story about a particular event or time in their life (true story, 1st POV).

Memoire / Narrative non-fiction

400

Box this word and label it as a shift changer

BUT

500

What is the format for a body paragraph?

ACEZ(Z) CEZ (Z) 

500

Name each of the 4Cs 

- craft 

- conflict (& resolution) 

- change 

- characterization 

500

When stuck between 2 good answers, which POE step will help you choose the BEST answer?



Step 6 - going back into the text to label evidence 

500

An important characteristic of journalism text


delayed lede 

500

Sitting up nice and tall help with this

AWV: staying awake, getting oxygen to your brain