SBAC Review

SBAC doesn't change your grade in your classes.

BUT it is important for our school to understand where students are at with their learning.

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​SBAC Prep

Multiple Choice

We will be graded on our SBAC

• TRUE

• FALSE

​There are 3 types of essays the SBAC might require you to write.

They are: Narrative, Informational, and Argumentative.

Multiple Select

Select ALL of the essays that might be on the SBAC!

• Argumentative

• Narrative

• Informational

• Literary analysis

Narrative Essay

​Narrative is to tell a story.

Narratives should include:

Characters, dialogue, setting, and conflict.

(This could be a story about yourself or something made up [Like Percy Jackson, or the story you wrote about your Greek parents.])

Multiple Select

What should a narrative essay include?

• characters

• arguments

• conflict

• setting

​Informational Essay




When you write an essay using research.

Informational Essays should include:

Important information, quotes, research

Multiple Select

Informational essays should include

• quotes

• conflict

• research

• important infromation

In our class, we've barely touched the service on argumentative essays... BUT you still might get tested on it.

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Argumentative essay

When you try to change someone's mind by arguing your point.

In an argumentative essay you need:

Claim, Evidence (quotes), and Reasoning as to why you think what you think.

Multiple Select

What 3 things should be included in argumentative essays?

• Claim

• Reasoning

• evidence

• storytelling

​Identify the following kinds of writing as either narrative, informational, or argumentative.

Multiple Choice

The Great Depression affected many people especially those who lived through it. With that said the main point of this essay is how people who lived through the Depression were affected during it. During The Great Depression people had things to deal with that made them struggle. Some people didn't have an abundant amount of money not a decent amount. Insted they had little or none at all. It was a struggle to earn money with the lack of jobs, people ended up doing side jobs to earn money.

• argument

• narrative

• informational

Multiple Choice

  The young boy stood with the most menacing look he could muster spread across his face. He just stood there watching the endless columns stretch as far as the eye could see down the long, dusty road. The soldiers would turn and look as they went by, and he made sure to look right back. He made sure to stare as far as he could into the dark pupils of their eyes, as if it would raise the house that was now nothing more than a heap of ashes. Only a few charred remains of the walls were left.

• narrative

• argument

• informational

Multiple Choice

 The boy took a step forward and leaned back, then whipped his body forward and released the rock at the same moment. The boy heard a thud as the rock came home and the rear most soldier clutched his side and looked back – but all he saw were those hateful eyes with tears rolling forth.

• argument

• informational

• narrative

Multiple Choice

 Some people think that we are superior to animals but I think that animals are as smart as we are. Pets react to your moods and seem to know just when it’s dinner time! Some animals use tools, communicate and think for their own. 

  If animals can use tools, they must be smart. For instance, a cow named Betty made a hook out of a piece of metal wire. That’s obviously pretty smart but she didn’t stop there.

• argument

• narrative

• inormational

Multiple Select

What should a narrative essay include?

• characters

• arguments

• conflict

• setting

Multiple Select

Informational essays should include

• quotes

• conflict

• research

• important infromation

Multiple Select

What 3 things should be included in argumentative essays?

• Claim

• Reasoning

• evidence

• storytelling

Multiple Choice

Memory. The dictionary defines it as the mental ability to recall past experiences. We think of it as that picture we saw, the words she said. Who in your life is so vivid in your memory that you could describe him or her without a second thought? For me, it’s my grandpa. But when I was small, I couldn’t say “Grandpa,” so 13 years ago, Theodore Lazarus became Paw Paw.

• narrative

• argument

• infromational

Multiple Choice

More than any other state, Hawaii is world famous for its beauty and pleasant climate. This is probably why Hawaii, the “Aloha State,” is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, and why I would love to visit this state someday. Besides being a great place for tourists, though, Hawaii is also a great place to live and has over one million residents.

• argument

• narrative

• informational

Multiple Choice

“Fine arts are important in the curriculum because of what they do for learning,” stated Patty Taylor, arts consultant for the California State Department of Education. In other words, the arts, especially music, should be part of every school’s curriculum at every grade level. Music makes students smarter, gives children something positive to do, and builds self-confidence. Most students don’t have a chance to learn music outside of school, and everyone deserves that opportunity.

• informational

• argument

• narrative

Multiple Choice

Rosa Parks is often considered as just these things, remembered as the tired seamstress who refused to give up a bus seat to a white man in 1955. Parks, however, was—and still is—much more than that.

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskeegee, Alabama, to her parents, Leona, a teacher, and James, a carpenter. At the age of 2, she moved to Pine Level, Alabama, with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester, to live on her grandparents’ farm. At age 11, she began education at the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by women from the northern United States, and then went on to the Alabama State Teachers College.

• informational

• argument

• narrative

Open Ended

Write a 3 sentence NARRATIVE about your morning.

Open Ended

Write a 3 sentence ARGUMENT about why we should or shouldn't have a dress code.

Open Ended

Write 3 informational sentences about your favorite animal.