Strategies
What is POE?
Process of Elimination
Where do you submit your writing assessment? Bonus 50 if you know the tab name.
On KA Connect, under assignments.
What is SVO?
Subject Verb Object
When you retell/ paraphrase a story/ video in your own words.
Summary
Your answer/ response to the prompt.
Thesis Statement
What is 95/5 rule?
95 percent of a question is correction, the other 5 is wrong. (Making it a distractor.)
How many points are each KA Plus class? Bonus if you know the max amount of extra credit each KA Honors cycle.
Each is 0.5 and you can get a total of 5.0 extra credit points.
Singular vs Plural (bonus 50 if you give examples of forms.)
1 vs more than 1, example: cat vs cats, Him vs Them
Words like "Nonetheless, Although, Additionally" etc. are called what?
Transitional words.
Another word for details for the topic sentences.
Supports
You can find the subjects/ topics, usually, in paragraphs in these two spots.
Beginning and end
How many extra credit points are field trips?
2
Additions to the beginning of words, such as "Ex-, un- ir-, con-, in-, sub-," etc. are called, what? Bonus 50 if you can spell it.
Prefixes.
To figure out indirectly from the evidence on the page
Infer/ inferencing
Recommended planning time for writing.
5 minutes
NEVER do this.
Leave an answer blank.
What can you use a KA Honors Certificate?
To supplement your English-based application for colleges and high schools.
When you insert additional information in a complete sentence/ statement, you separate it with what kind of commas?
Parenthetical commas.
To suggest information indirectly from the passage.
Imply
What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
Don't look the questions'_____ before the reading. (Bonus 100 for reason.)
answers!
How many times to we watch a video, and summarize, every KA Honors cycle?
Two times
If you can read this without messing up, twice, you get full points:
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
What are words such as "Really, Very, All, Most, Entire, Few" etc. called?
Amplifiers
What type of speech or writing is used to convince the audience to choose a stance/ option?
Persuasive