Test Taking Strategies
What is the first thing you need to find when you start taking the test?
The first essay question
A verb from Scorpions that means looked quickly
glanced
The problem of a text is called the...
Conflict
What graphic organizer will you make to answer a question that requires you to have a central idea and use evidence from the text?
6 pack
Characters speaking is called...
Dialogue
What color do we use to highlight the essay question and the PSST on the computer test?
Pink
A word on the street that means freezing
frigid
What does TAR stand for?
Title, Author, Restate the question
What graphic organizer will you make to answer a question that requires you to use the setting, events, and characters from the passage?
Witch's Hat
If a novel has talking animals or magic, it is this genre
Fantasy
What is the name of the tool that helps you narrow down answers for Multiple Choice questions?
Eliminator Tool/Answer Eliminator
A word from A Corner of the Universe that means unpredictable
erratic
What is another word for characteristic?
Character trait
On your narrative writing graphic organizer, you must draw a line AND draw boxes for these two story elements
Setting and Characters
What are two types of figurative language?
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole
After you finish reading the passage (with highlights and annotations), what is your next step?
Answer the Multiple Choice questions
A word on the street that means extremely happy and joyful
Ecstatic
Bang! Boom! Creak! Meow!
Are all examples of...
Onomatopoeia
What is the label of each box of the six pack?
X, Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Body Paragraph 3, Conclusion
What is Alliteration?
When words start with the same consonant sound
Which screen of the test should you be on while you do your highlighting and annotations?
The screen with the essay question
A word from Scorpions that means quickly
briskly
What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
The rain pounded on the door like a drum, but still Jalyssa did not wake.
Simile
Orange (transitional clincher)
The narrator's attitude towards the thing that they are writing about is the...
Tone