Testing Strategies
Got Skills?
Vocabulary
Short/Extended response
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 the definition of theme?
The lesson or moral of the story, the author wants you to know
100
How many paragraphs are in a comparison essay?
4-5
100
Which of the following is a simile?
1. She was a butterfly.
2. The bees were singing.
3. She was as silly as a goose.
3. She was as silly as a goose.
200
What strategies do you use for Multiple Choice Questions
1. Multiple Choice Protocol
2. Slash and Trash
3. Try to decode the question
200
What are the different parts of plot?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
200
What is plot?
The flow of the story. (beginning, middle, end)
200
This is the process you use when creating a short response answer
RAFTIT
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
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
4. Outline your essay
300
What is a conclusion based on what you already know combined with the text evidence is an ___________.
Inference
300
The perspective from which a story is told, essentially defining who is narrating and who is experiencing the events
Point of View
300
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.
300
What is the tone of this poem?
Wanting, distraught, sadness
400
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)
400
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
400
the array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition.
This is the definition of what vocab word?
Connotation
400
How do you get full credit on the essay question?
1. 4 full quotes (2 from each article)
2. Explain your evidence
3. Answers all the questions
4. Proper structure
400
Which words show a positive connotation?
stressed, worrisome
Evolving, specific, modern
Wonders, rich, delight
Old, smaller, hollow
C. Wonders, rich, delight
500
What should you do the night before the big test?
Get plenty of sleep!
500
How do you find the tone of a story?
Pick 1 or 2 words that show the meaning/mood in the story.
500
What is an allusion can you give an example?
a reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader's understanding of their work
Ex: King Midas, Greek Mythology
500
What is the purpose of the third body paragraph in your essay? What is included in this paragraph?
To compare both articles with no evidence. Put it into your own words.
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.
