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PARCC Exam
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Writing Process
Random
100
How many PARCC ELA exams do you take?
Three sessions
100
What is the main problem of a story called?
Conflict
100
What is the main point an author is trying to get across in a text?
The central idea
100
An essay is typically how long?
5 paragraphs
100
What is the perspective from which a story is told?
Point of View
200
The Research Task asks you to read three ___________ and write an essay using evidence.
Texts or Nonfiction texts
200
What is the message or moral of a story called?
Theme
200
What is chronological order?
Order by time
200

Create and label an essay plan.

Paragraph 1: Hook, Background, CLAIM

Paragraph 2: CER                                           Paragraph 3: CER                                         Paragraph 4: CER                                           Paragraph 5: Rephrase CLAIM

200
List four types of figurative language.
Simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration
300
The Literary Analysis (Day 1) and the Research Task (Day 2) have you write essays.  The Day 3 session asks you to read a selection and write a __________.
Narrative or story
300
What is the attitude/mood a writer expresses in a text?
Tone
300
What is text structure?
The way a text is organized.
300

Create and label a tool that helps you compare and contrast.

Venn Diagram

300
List three types of rhetoric that an author might use to persuade the reader.
Word choice, repetition, question, ethos, pathos, logos
400
Every mulitple choice question has two parts.  Part A asks a question, and par B asks students to identify the ________________ that helped you answer Part A. 
Evidence
400
What is the sequence of events in a story called?
Plot
400
What is it called when an author writes a text for a reason or to accomplish something?
Author's Purpose
400
What type of word or phrase should begin each body paragraph? Provide two examples.
Transition
400
What tools will help you understand an unknown word?
Use context clues:

-reread the sentence

-reread the sentences before and after

-break the word apart

- look for a cognate

500
When creating your essay or narrative, you should ___________, ____________, and ___________.
Plan, draft, and revise
500
A character experiences a change in thoughts or actions.
Character Shift
500
What is the author's argument stated in a complete sentence?  What is the opposite?
Claim and Counterclaim
500
What three things should you revise and edit?
Capitalization, punctuation, vocabulary
500

In poetry, authors split their text into _________.

In all other writing, authors split their text into ___________.

stanzas, paragraphs