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Test-Taking Strategies--pt. 2
100
The first thing you should do for a regents task.
What is create a focus question?
100
The author of OF MICE AND MEN
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
The literary element used very heavily in OF MICE AND MEN, with examples such as the farm, hands, mice, and the gun.
What is symbolism?
100
The number of tasks on the NYS English Regents
What is four?
100
The proper order of citation.
What is author, then line number?
200
The primary note-taking strategy you should utilize during the listening section
What is two column notes
200
The author of The Lesson.
Who is Toni Cade Bambara
200
Shooting of Candy's dog, for example
What is Foreshadow?
200
The very first task you will do is the ___________ section
What is listening?
200
The place to look to find your topic.
What are the situation, the task, or the guidelines?
300
Three verbs necessary for a perfect paragraph.
What are introduce, explain, and connect?
300
Author of "Winter Dreams"
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
300
Money is unfairly distributed in America, for example.
What is Theme?
300
The Critical Lens is at this location on the test.
What is Day Two, Task Two...the last essay you write?
300
The strategy you can use when you do not understand the meaning of a poem they want you to read
What is paraphrasing/breaking it down line by line or section by section?
400
Rather than focusing on the summary of a text you should focus on
What are the individual events, or individual characters?
400
Killer of MacBeth.
Who is MacDuff?
400
It is ________ that George must shoot Lennie in order to protect him.
What is ironic?
400
The third essay you will write requires one of these.
What is the controlling idea?
400
Thing to do when beginning your task IV essay.
What is keep it real?
500
Use for Author One thinks ________ about _________
What is Task III
500
Author of the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
500
The light crawled across the floor of the dusty barn.
What is personification?
500
The best description for the second essay your write.
What is a PERSUASIVE essay
500
Determining whether to agree or disagree with a quote depends on this.
What is, what is provable with your chosen texts?