MCAS Trivia
The date of the ELA MCAS
What is April 10&11
What is read through the questions and the prompt?
You should use this to support your claim.
Evidence
What analyzing means
What is reading and interpreting text closely and carefully?
To give human qualities to non-human things is ________________.
What is personification?
The name of the strategy that eliminates incorrect answers?
What is use the answer eliminator
Once I have a focus on what I am reading for, as I begin reading I should:
What is highlight corresponding text?
If I'm writing in support of one side of a topic, what type of essay is it?
What is argument?
A sequence is _______
What is the order in which events happen
A struggle between opposing forces
What is a conflict?
True or False- you will need to take MCAS again in 11th grade.
What is only if you don't pass in 10th?
What is the bookmark?
I should make one of these to organize my thoughts before I begin writing.
What is a graphic organizer or outline
Describe means to _____
What is to give details?
Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant sounds
Math MCAS month
May
As I'm reading and highlighting, there is a tool that I can use to annotate the text. This is called:
c) What is notepad?
The conclusion should always restate this
What is a claim or thesis?
To support your claim is to. ____
What is to back it up; to find evidence
Allusion
What is a reference to another work?
What is Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System?
If I truly don't know an answer, I should:
What person is narrative writing told in?
What is first person?
Inferring information from the text is ___
What is figuring something out even though it isn't specifically mentioned; to read between the lines
Examples of this include: "hissed," "crackle," and "splash."
What is onomatopoeia?