Test Strategies
Got Skills?
Vocabulary
Short/Extended Response Protocols
Use your noggin
100
What is the best thing to do as you are reading a passage?
Annotate and Gist the story.
100
What is included in your gist?
2-3 sentences including who and what the story is about
100
What is a gist?
The main idea of the story.
100
Name all the steps in RAFTIT
Restate
Anser
For example
This shows
In addition
This shows
100
What is a simile? Provide an example
A comparison using the words like or as.
She was as fast as a cheetah.
200
What should you do the night before the big test?
Get plenty of sleep!
200
What are the different parts of plot?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
200
What is theme?
Theme is the lesson or moral in the story the author wants you to know.
200
How many paragraphs should be in a compare and contrast essay?
4-5 paragraphs.
200
Which of the following is NOT an example of theme?
a. Friendship.
b. Try your best even in tough times.
c. The flow of the story.
d. Perserverance
C. The flow of the story
300
How should you approach a multiple choice question?
Put the question in your own words.
Create or find your own answer before looking at the choices.
3. Use slash to trash /process of elimination to search for wrong answers.
300
Name all the steps in the STOP strategy
S: Speaker
T: Tone
O: Overall message
P: Pretty Language
300
What is plot?
Plot is the flow of the story. Tells you what happens in the beginning, middle and end.
300
What do you need to include in your short response to get full credit?
2 pieces of evidence and a clear inference
300
Which is an example of a metaphor?
a. She was as pretty as a butterfly.
b. The classroom was a zoo.
c. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
d. The leaves danced in the wind.
b. The classroom was a zoo
400
What is the scrap paper protocol for the state test?
1. Ask for as many as you need
2. Plan out your essay/short response
3. Create a gist of the article
400
What is a conclusion based on what you already know combined with the text evidence is an ___________.
Inference
400
What is tone and provide an example
Tone is the authors attitude in the story.
Example: Admiring, excited sadness ect..
400
What score would you earn in an essay if you copy text evidence from the passage but do not explain anything? Why?
0
Why?
There is no inference.
400
Which words show a positive connotation?
stressed, worrisome
Evolving, specific, modern
Wonders, rich, delight
Old, smaller, hollow
C. Wonders, rich, delight
500
1. What do you do once you finish the test?
What is…
Review my answers
Submit the test
Rest
Do not disturb my other peers
Once everyone is done you can do your quiet activity (no computers)
500
Which is the definition of the climax of a story?
Series of events
struggle the character has to overcome
End of the conflict
B. struggle the character has to overcome
500
What is the definition of hyperbole? Provide an example
An extreme exaggeration
Ex: He ate a ton of candy
500
How many paragraphs would be done to answer this essay question? What kind of essay is this?
Comparison essay. 4 paragraphs
500
A storm at sea causes a boat to crash on the rocks of a tiny island.
Search planes miss the island despite the survivors efforts to signal for help.
Supplies are running out. As their last resort the survivors send a message in a bottle.
A fisherman from a nearby island finds the bottle.
The fisherman rescues the survivors.
Which part is the exposition of this plot line?
What is…
1) A storm at sea causes a boat to crash on the rocks of a tiny island.
