Questioning
Look at the illustrations from the folktales. Write an essay describing how each illustration helps the reader understand the characters' actions in each folktale. Be sure to use evidence from each folktale to support your response.
How does each illustration help the reader understand the characters' actions in each folktale?
Each section of DC CAPE is 90 minutes. On your paddle, answer the following:
How should you split your time so you can complete everything?
30 minutes to read and take notes
30 minutes to answer multiple choice questions
30 minutes to write essay/narrative
Protagonist
What is the first thing you should do when you begin DC CAPE?
Click through to the writing prompt and break it down on your scrap paper.
Name the only US State that starts with the letter D.
Delaware
Your friend thinks it is impossible for people and animals to live in the Arctic. Write a letter to your friend explaining it is possible to live in the Arctic. Include information about how people and animals are able to survive in the cold. Use ideas and facts from both articles in your letter.
How is it possible to live in the Arctic?
On your paddle, write down the three types of writing tasks required on DC CAPE.
Research Simulation Task
Narrative Task
Literary Analysis Task
This term describes a life lesson, moral, or message about life and human nature that is communicated through a literary work
Theme
Your test proctor has just announced that there are only 30 minutes remaining for the test. Ideally, what should you be doing for the last 30 minutes of the test?
Writing your essay/narrative
This school is the oldest university in the United States.
Harvard
Perhaps one of the most significant events to impact the study of the moon's origins occurred when astronauts were actually able to visit the moon, beginning with the Apollo missions. Write an essay that uses references to all three articles to explain the significance of the lunar missions to the study of the moon's origins.
What is the significance of the lunar missions in studying the moon's origins?
On your paddle, write down the four elements of a strong paragraph.
Topic Sentence
Evidence
Elaboration
Conclusion
This acronym is commonly used when analyzing characterization. What is it? What does this acronym stand for?
Sounds like
Looks like
Acts like
Thinks like
Effect on others
If there is a question about the meaning of a word, which sentences should you read to help you figure out the meaning?
The sentence that the word is in, then the sentences that come before and after
This country gave the United States the Statue of Liberty as a birthday gift.
France
Use what you have learned from reading the passages from "Sister Carrie" and "The Grasshopper" to write an essay analyzing how the author in each passage uses small events in a day to develop the main character.
How do the authors in each passage use small events in a day to develop the main character?
Using your scrap paper, set up your note taking sheet for the Literary Analysis Task.
- Fold in half
- Line drawn two inches from the top, with question and annotation focus written down.
This occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens, often creating a humorous or dramatic effect.
Irony
What are the three steps used for breaking down the prompt?
1. Highlight/underline the key words
2. Turn the prompt into a question
3. Determine the annotation focus (what you are looking for as you read the passages)
This musician holds the record for the most Grammy awards of all time.
Beyonce
Both Charles Dickens and James Joyce incorporate dialogue into their passages. Use evidence you have gathered from both passages to write an essay analyzing how the dialogue in each passage functions to reveal aspects of the characters.
How does the dialogue in each passage reveal aspects of the characters?
Using your scrap paper, set up your note taking sheet for the Research Simulation Task.
- Paper folded into thirds
- Line drawn 2 inches from the top, with question and annotation focus written
What is it called when an object, animal, or color represents a deeper meaning or idea beyond its literal sense?
Symbolism
List the five steps you take when answering a multiple choice question.
1. Read every word in the question
2. Come up with a possible answer before looking at the answer options
3. Read ALL the answer options before selecting your answer
4. Eliminate the answers that do not make sense or are only partially correct
5. Look back at the section of text referenced in the question to check your answer
How many branches does the US government have?
Bonus points: Name them
3