EOG Prep

EOG Review Session

Multiple Select

How are you feeling today?

Open Ended

Tell me about your experience taking the ELA EOG this year? What challenges did you face? What was the most difficult aspect of the testing experience?

Poll

Which statement best describes your previous ELA test?

• I read every passage and every question completely.

• I read every question and most of the passages.

• I skimmed the passages and answered the questions.

• I mostly just guessed.

Poll

Which statement best describes your test-taking process? Check all that apply.

• I take notes by summarizing the text.

• I use process of elimination: possible/not possible

• I take a brain break between passages.

• I don't use any of these strategies.

​What is the theme of this poem?

Brain Breaks

Brain Breaks During Testing

The testing schedule is strict and can make it difficult to give your brain a rest, but there are things that can be done during testing. Do you have any ideas about how you can recharge your brain during an EOG test?

40 minutes of work time
3 minute break time
40 minutes of work time
3 minute break time
40 minutes of work time
3 minutes of work time
An addditional 40 minutes for those still testing

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Here's the testing schedule.

You are also allowed to take bathroom breaks as needed. Time in the bathroom is not lost time.

Movement is important before and during the test.
-Outdoor walk
-Jumping jacks
-Balance activities

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What to do with breaks

-Draw on your paper
-Balance a pencil
-Take a bathroom break for water or to squeeze some playdough

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Pause after each passage or when you notice you're losing focus

Other Testing Strategies

While your brain is still fresh and awake!

Start with the more difficult passages

This will help you to focus your reading. Summarize the questions into your own words.

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Read the Questions First

You can almost always narrow the answers down to two!

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Use Possible/Not Possible

If a question specifies paragraph 4, you cannot answer the question without returning to paragraph 4.

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Go Back into the Text

Open Ended

What are some strategies that you can use to keep your focus during the test?

Practice Passages

"The Village Balcksmith"

-Read and summarize the questions
-Read and summarize each stanza
-Use possible/not possible for the questions.

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​HINT: Poems should always be summarized.

Multiple Choice

What is the central theme of "The Village Blacksmith"?

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Multiple Choice

Read Lines 15-18. Which statement BEST explains what the comparison with a sexton suggests about the blacksmith?

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Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is used most often in the poem?

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Multiple Choice

The speaker learns from the blacksmith that success is the result of hard work. Which lines from the poem BEST support this statment?

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following images reveals the location of the blacksmith's wife?

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-Draw on your paper
-Balance a pencil
-Take a bathroom break for water or to squeeze some playdough

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Pause after each passage or when you notice you're losing focus

-Explore the passage
-Read the questions
-Read and highlight portions of the text
-Use possible/not possible

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"The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Multiple Choice

Which line of dialogue BEST demonstrates the relationship between Holmes and Watson?

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Multiple Choice

Which is an example of situational irony in the passage?

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Multiple Choice

Which is the BEST summary of the passage?

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Multiple Choice

Read these sentences from the passage:

"Well Watson, what do you make of our visitor's stick? Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it."

The author uses the underlined word to suggest that Watson should...

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Multiple Choice

Which term BEST describes Sherlock Holmes?

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Multiple Choice

Which detail from the passage shows the very moment that Holmes first sees Dr. Mortimer and his dog?

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-Draw on your paper
-Balance a pencil
-Take a bathroom break for water or to squeeze some playdough

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Pause after each passage or when you notice you're losing focus

-Scan the passage
-Read the questions
-Number and summarize each paragraph
-Possible/Not Possible

​Chapter II: In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal

​HINT: Complex passages should always be summarized.

Multiple Choice

Which detail describes Passerpartout's point of view?

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Multiple Choice

Read the passage selection. Which character trait of Phileas Fogg do these sentences describe?

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Multiple Choice

How does Passepartout come to think that in serving Mr. Fogg, he will be serving a machine?

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Multiple Choice

How does Passepartout get to know Phileas over the course of the passage?

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Multiple Choice

Read the sentence. Which word with the same meaning but a negative connotation can be used to replace tumbled?

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Multiple Choice

Read the sentence. Which words from the sentence BEST support the inference that Passepartout decided to leave many of his former employers instead of being fired?

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-Draw on your paper
-Balance a pencil
-Take a bathroom break for water or to squeeze some playdough

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Pause after each passage or when you notice you're losing focus

-Scan the passage
-Read the questions
-Read the passage
-Possible/Not Possible

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Leonardo DaVinci

Multiple Choice

Which main idea about Leonardo DaVinci is the author emphasizing in Paragraph 3?

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Multiple Choice

Which sentence BEST connects the term Renaissance man to the Renaissance?

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Multiple Choice

Based on the text, with which statement would the author MOST LIKELY agree?

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Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from the passage. What is the meaning of the underlined word?

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Multiple Choice

Read the paragraphs from the passage. Which can you infer from the information about DaVinci's parachute invention.

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Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the passage: "To many, it is as if DaVinci could see into the future." Select the statement that BEST supports this claim about DaVinci.

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-Draw on your paper
-Balance a pencil
-Take a bathroom break for water or to squeeze some playdough

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Pause after each passage or when you notice you're losing focus

-Scan the passage
-Read the questions
-Read the passage
-Possible/Not Possible

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Dome Homes

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from the passage: "The shape provides better natural air circulation and ventilation throughout the house." What is the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the passage?

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Multiple Choice

Which statement BEST describes the connection between the information in paragraph 1 of "Dome Homes" and the information in paragraph 2?

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Multiple Choice

Select the sentence from paragraph 5 that BEST refines information about how some dome homes are specifically constructed?

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Multiple Choice

Which is the author's purpose for writing this passage?

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Multiple Choice

Read the sentence.

As dome homes become more common, perhaps you or a friend will be living in one and experiencing firsthand the advantages of this new home design.

Which word or phrase with the same meaning but a positive connotation can be used to replace advantages?

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Multiple Choice

In paragraph 3, the author says that dome-home manufactures claim that dome homes are the most storm-resistant. Which detail from the paragraph provides an example of how others may also believe this to be true?

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