English III CSA Practice 2: Student Essay

What diction or syntax could be placed in the blank to link the major sections of the text and clarify relationships between the ideas in these two paragraphs? (AOR 5.2)

• In fact,

• One reason why

• As a result,

• However

How does the student use text structures in this text to make it more effective? (AOR 5.2)

• The student presents two opposing viewpoints and evaluates each one.

• The student organizes the argument by introducing historical texts and applying their ideas to a modern situation.

• The student uses a chronological timeline to explain how censorship has changed.

• The student presents interview transcripts as primary evidence.

Which item explains how the student uses valid reasoning in paragraph 2? (AOR 5.3, C.1.1)

• The student uses circular reasoning to repeat the thesis.

• The student uses deductive reasoning to show how general warnings about censorship apply to a specific rule.

• The student appeals to emotion by describing how sad students feel.

• The student uses inductive reasoning by listing examples of schools that allow phones.

How is this student's perspective different from someone who believes that phone bans are necessary for academic focus? (AOR 5.3, C.1.1)

• This student is more concerned with student comfort than learning.

• This student supports limited use of phones as a right, not a distraction.

• This student thinks phones should be banned entirely.

• This student believes technology is more important than rules.

What is wrong with the following sentence? (C.4.1) Milton believed that ideas must be tested in open debate but schools think silence is better than allowing phones and don't trust students to self-govern.

• It is a run-on sentence.

• One of the words in the sentence is missing an apostrophe.

• It contains a mistake in capitalization.

• It misuses a semicolon or colon.

• It is a sentence fragment.