Study Guide for 8th Grade Writing Expectations Quiz

1. What are the three modes of writing?

• Informational, argumentative, and narrative.

• Informational, persuasive, and poetry.

• Informational, persuasive, and drama.

• Informational, argumentative, and journaling.

2.  Inform means to:

• impart knowledge of some fact or idea

• use persuasion successfully

• part; cease or break association with

• have a desire for someone absent

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CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

3. Some readers did try to inject a bit of hard textual evidence into the debate.

In this sentence, evidence means:

• criticism

• proof

• variation

• trickery

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

4. elaboration means:

• a warning about something unpleasant

• a sign something is about to happen

• the act of delaying or procrastinating

• addition of extra material or clarifying detail.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

5. Which of the following are strategies writers can use to help them effectively elaborate on evidence and ideas?

• Writers can ask themselves, "so what?" to help them determine the significance of a quote or idea.

• Writers can refer back to the prompt to keep focus of their writing.

• Writers can use sentence starters for elaboration.

• All of the above.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

6. Who would most likely argue?

• A lawyer in a courtroom.

• A clown juggling.

• A mother rocking an infant.

• A patient in an operating room.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

7. Which of the following is an 8th grade argumentative writing expectation? (This expectation was NOT required in 7th grade!!!)

• Evidence

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  Elaboration

• Counterclaim

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  Punctuation

8. Counterclaim means:

• an opinion offered in opposition to another position.

• a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument.

• a promotional statement, as on the dust jacket of a book.

• an act of expressing things in an indirect or roundabout way.

9. Where are you most likely to hear a counterclaim?

• at a fundrasier

• at a concert

• at a graduation

• at a debate

10. Refute means to:

• go for and bring back

• prove to be false or incorrect

• be or come between

• make mysterious

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4