What to bring:
What not to bring:
TAGS
Things to know/do:
Study List:
100
What should your bring with you if you are the "thirsty type"?
What is a bottle of water.
100
What should you not carry with you to your MCAS test?
What is a backpack or bag.
100
Give me the title, genre, and setting for, the book by Octavia Butler.
What is Kindred, Science Fiction (Novel), 1970s California & Slavery Times in the South
100
Most importantly what do you need to do.
Be on time, Be on time, Be on time
100
What paragraph structure should you use to answer your open response questions?
What is MEAT and Monster MEAT
200
What should your bring with your if you are the "hungry" type, "cold" type and/or "hot type"?
What isa snack for the break, a sweater, or wear short sleeves.
200
What should you not have near you at any time of the MCAS.
What is a cellphone
200
What is the Author, Genre, and setting of The Color Water.
What is James McBride, Memoir, and the South 1940s & New York 1970's.
200
What should you do before testing begins?
What is go to the bathroom.
200
What should you look for when you are are memorizing and studying your graphic organizer or old essays and comments?
What is Essay structure.
300
What will you get a demerit for if you do not bring this? (be specific)
What are sharpened #2 pencils
300
What is the last thing you should not bring to your MCAS test?
What is a grumpy attitude.
300
What is the title, author, and setting of an epic poem.
What is Odyssey, Homer, and Ancient Greece.
300
What is there absolutely none of during the test?
What is talking.
300
What should you memorize and use on essay day?
What is Pre-writing steps.
400
What should you bring no mater what type you are?
What is a book.
400
Why are you not allowed your cellphone during MCAS testing?
Because it is a way you can cheat, and you should not have your phone on you anyways (school rules)
400
What is the Title, Author and Genre of the book set in the Holocaust, World War II, in European Concentration Camps.
What is Night, Elie Weisel, Memoir.
400
When is the earliest you will be dismissed? Why?
What is the test is not times, the earliest you will be dismissed is lunch.
400
What do you need to know for your essays?
What are the TAGS for each book we read this year.
500
What is the last thing you should bring to your MCAS test?
What is a well rested and well-fed self.
500
How can you avoid bringing a grumpy attitude to your MCAS test?
What is making sure you are well rested and well fed.
500
What are the Title, Author, and Settings of the two plays you have read.
What is Fences by August Wilson, set in the 1950's Pittsburgh, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare, set during the Middle Ages in Scotland.
500
What must you not discuss? You can't even say. . . what?
What is You can not discuss the test, you can't even say "that was easy".
500
What are some of the traps to avoid and strategies to use on multiple choice questions.
What is Identifying a "finding evidence" vs. a "making inference" question, the sesame street game, unconfident sophomore trap, the close but not best trap, the proximity trap, the assumption trap.