What is a detailed description of a person or place?
100
do not start your paper with...
What is a definition or rhetorical question?
100
use a highlighter to
What is highlight the correct answers in the passage?
100
Write a story that is _____ and _____.
What is "real" and "personal"?
100
How many parts should you write for the crossover?
Answer and quote for story #1
Answer and quote for story #2
FOUR PARTS
200
Dialogue
What is a conversation between two or more characters?
200
do not write less than...
What is less than a page and a half?
200
Make sure you answer the question that is ...
Answer the question that is asked.
200
Instead of starting with the reading passages, what should you do first?
Read the writing prompt and begin gathering ideas for your story.
200
How many parts do you write for the normal short answer questions?
TWO PARTS: one answer and one text support. Prove your answer with the evidence.
300
Thought shot
What is a sentence beginning with "I guessed, I wondered, I hoped, I thought..." that indicates a character's feelings.
300
do not use this type of word
What is slang?
300
Use this to define words in the reading passage.
What is a dictionary?
300
Just "jump right in" to your story and establish your setting/characters instead of...
restating the prompt
300
Text evidence, a quotation, and proof are defined as...
ANY words in the story that support your answer.
400
Explode a moment
What is the process of slowing down the most exciting point in the story for the purpose of adding more detail.
400
do not use words like "first, second, third"
What are words like bad transitions?
400
If you don't know the answer, then ...
What is read the passage again?
400
What is the most important part of your story?
The conclusion! Write about a lesson you learned through this experience or write about how this incident changed your life significantly.
Make the connection from your story to the prompt EXTREMELY clear!
400
In the short answers, you do not have to mention the...
author's name, title of the story, or page number.
500
Sensory details
What are details that describe the five senses including sight, sound, touch, taste, and hearing?
500
do not use phrases like "my first reason is..., my second reason is..."
What is listing reasons?
500
Do this before choosing an answer...
What is eliminate at least two choices?
500
Write a personal, realistic story instead of ...
Writing about the reading selections, a movie you saw, or some hypothetical person somewhere doing something.
500
Before writing the final copy for the OERs and the essay, you should...
write a rough draft and plan your answers carefully