Six Weeks Exam

Match the strategies with the "weapon" you can use to defeat the "enemy."

• Read the questions first

• Eliminate answer choices that have words that are not true or not found in the text

• Use the line reader to focus your attention and keep your place

• Preview the concepts that will be tested

• Use the highlight tool or notepad to note key ideas or text evidence

• Be actively engaged in what you are reading

• Ask "Yoda" to assist and read definitions critically

• Define unknown words

• Use the strikethrough tool to cross out words/answer choices

• Focus on CLOSE reading of the text and mark your place in the text

Improving the quality of a text or adding transitions and more powerful words to your own writing are examples of this

• using the process of elimination

• revising

• editing

• citing evidence

Correcting errors in spelling, capitalization, and grammar in a text or your own writing means you are doing this

• revising

• highlighting

• using the process of elimination

• editing

Put the parts of a complete evidence citation in the order that they should be put in your sentence(s)

• Put a close parenthesis followed by a period

• Put an open parenthesis

• Put quotation marks around text that you copy directly

• Put the paragraph or line number(s)

• Introduce the title and author (if one is given)

You will have ​ (a)   to complete the test

• until the end of the day
• four hours
• five hours
• as much time as you need

Counts as 10 points (a)  

Counts as 2 points (b)  

Requires text evidence properly cited (c)  

Requires planning (d)  

Uses the words of the prompt to answer the question (e)  

• ECR
• SCR
• ECR and SCR

A comparison of two unlike things or ideas that does not use "like" or "as"

• simile

• analogy

• metaphor

• alliteration

Looking at how ideas are similar is ​ (a)   and looking at differences is ​ (b)  

• comparing
• contrasting
• analyzing
• revising

Which of the following is the same as a thesis statement?

• claim

• controlling idea

• position statement

• all of these

Match the following terms to the correct definition

• the "voice" of a story

• speaker

• the creator of a story or poem

• author

• a participant in a story

• character

• the "voice" of a poem

• narrator