What should you do first?
A) read the passage
B) read the multiple choice questions
c) read the open response question
read the open response question
100
How many paragraphs are you expected to write in the WRITING section?
At least 6
100
What is a paragraph in a poem called
Stanza
100
What should you try to do before you read the answer choices?
Try to solve/predict the problem before looking at the answers
200
What should you do the morning of the test?
Eat breakfast
200
What is the mneumonic for answering open response questions?
Quite Isolated People Must Go To Extremely Cold Rooms
200
Before you write, what are expected to do?
Underline the key words in the questions, brainstorm, create and use a graphic organizer
200
How many times should you read a poem?
At least three
200
What words or phrases should you circle or highlight in a multiple choice question?
What the question is asking you (key words) and where to find extra information.
300
How can you decrease stress levels?
Try meditation or deep breathing, come prepared, try to leave your problems at the door.
300
What are a few strategies for answering open response questions?
Eliminate the garbage answers, go back if the question mentions a particular paragraph
300
What is one item you are graded on in the WRITING section?
answers will vary
300
"The flowers flourished on the farm"
Alliteration
300
Which statement is true?
A) once you find the answer, circle it, and move on quickly to the next problem
B) read all the answer choices before circling the answer
B
400
Instead of just looking at your MCAS score, what are we now focusing on more closely?
What is growth?
400
What should you write in the margins of the text you are reading?
The MCAS open response pointing words, the main ideas of the paragraphs that help you answer the question
400
What are two items you are graded on in the writing section?
answers will vary
400
"His smile was the bright sun, shinning light on those around him."
Metaphor
400
Why would you cross through answers in a multiple choice question?
you are eliminating choices, which will help you find the right answer
500
What are the advantages of making growth on the MCAS?
Our MCAS recognition assembly, feeling good about yourself
500
What should you do if you come to a word in the reading and you do not know its meaning?
Use the context to help figure out what the word means, see if there is a definition of the word below the text
500
Name the 4 types of writing styles that you may be asked to write.
Narrative
Expository
Descriptive
Persuasive
500
"And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet."
Personification
500
You only have 5 minutes left, you have 10 multiple choice questions left, what do you do?
Fill in all C's and THEN go back and try to answer the questions you may know.