American Literature EOC Review

Read this paragraph that a student wrote as part of a paper for history class.

1 The Panama Canal remains one of the greatest inventions in the history of the world. 2 Until its completion in 1914, only one long, arduous route existed for ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the United States. 3 The ships had to sail down to the southern-most tip of South America, around the tip of Cape Horn, and then back up the western coast of the continent. 4 When the Panama Canal was built, it gave ships a route through the middle of Panama in Central America. 5 This mind-blowing new route was way less intense and made the ships’ voyages approximately 8,000 nautical miles shorter. Which sentence should the student revise to make it more appropriate for the audience and purpose?

• sentence 2

• sentence 3

• sentence 4

• sentence 5

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A student is writing an essay for an American literature class. Read the draft of a paragraph from the essay. Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer whose work often portrayed the culture of African Americans living in small towns in the southern United States. She is perhaps best known for her novels Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Tell My Horse (1938) as well as her stunning autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942). Hurston was also a college professor and enjoyed a fruitful career as a writer, but as she grew older, much of her work seemed to be forgotten. In the late twentieth century—a number of decades after her death in 1960—her work became popular once again and her readership dramatically increased. The thematic importance of her literary contributions was once again recognized. Which research question would BEST help further develop the student’s topic?

• What did Hurston study as an undergraduate in college?

• Which themes is Hurston best known for exploring in her work?

• What are some common causes of an increase in readership of an author’s work?

• What are some of the most popular autobiographies written by modern authors?

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A student is writing an essay that argues that community service benefits those who perform it. The student must use sources that are credible and relevant to the topic. Which source would be BEST for the student to use for the essay?

• a newspaper article about local organizations seeking volunteers for community service opportunities

• a university study describing the positive effects of community service on volunteers’ emotional health

• . a blog post telling how to fulfill community service hours required to graduate high school

• a novel about a teen’s experiences performing community service at a local animal shelter

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Read the sentences. As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running. Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts. What is the BEST way to combine the sentences to maintain their detail while avoiding repetition?

• Clearing my mind of stressful thoughts, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running, since I am an avid runner.

• Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts as an avid runner, so I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running.

• As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges without going running, which helps me clear my mind of stressful thoughts.

• As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life’s challenges if I were not able to go running because going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts.

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A group of students is writing a report about a specific treatment available for patients with a medical condition called arthritis. One of their most credible sources is a study that was published in a medical journal three years ago. How can the students BEST use the Internet to locate the most current findings on the subject?

• by searching for the names of the physicians who authored the study to find out the names of the medical facilities where the treatment is implemented

• by searching for the name of the treatment to find out if any studies on the treatment have been published in medical journals more recently

• by searching for the title of the medical journal to find out what articles on other medical problems it has published more recently

• . by searching for articles on other topics that were written by the physicians who authored the original study to find out additional areas of expertise

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The Georgia Milestones Test is also called an end of course test (EOC)

• True

• False

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Which type of question is multiple choice?

• selected response

• brief constructed response

• extended constructed response

• extended written response

Brief constructed response could also be called

• essay

• narrative

• short answer

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What are the two possible types of essay prompts you will have on day one of testing?

• persuasive or argumentative

• narrative or literary analysis

• persuasive or informative

• informative or argumentative

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When writing a narrative, what are the "two D's?"

• details and descriptions

• details and dialogue

• dialogue and direct characterization

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