SKILLS FOR TEST TAKING FALL 2015 QUARTER ONE, PART ONE
NOTEBOOK LIST
1. Syllabus (9/8/15)
2. Questionnaire (9/8/15)
3. Rules (9/8/15)
4. 2013-14 SAT Practice Exam (9/8/15)
5. SAT essay scoring guide (9/8/15)
6. 2013-14 SAT Practice essay (9/8/15)
7. The SAT vs. the ACT (9/9/15)
8. How to Write Well handout (9/15/15)
9. Question of the Day sheet for the week of September 14, 2015 (9/15/15)
10. 2013-14 SAT Practice exam Vocabulary #1 (9/15/15)
11. 2013-14 ACT practice exam (9/16/15)
12. ACT essay scoring guidelines (9/16/15)
13. 2013-14 ACT practice essay (9/16/15)
14. Question of the Day sheet for the week of September 21, 2015 (9/21/15)
15. 2013-14 SAT vocabulary #2 (9/21/15)
16. Misplaced and dangling modifiers handout (9/22/15)
17. Misplaced and dangling modifiers worksheet #1 (9/22/15)
18. 2013-14 SAT vocabulary #3 (9/25/15)
19. Question of the Day sheet for the week of September 28, 2015 (9/28/15)
20. Veritas Prep’s “4 Ways to Rock that SAT Reading Passage” handout (9/29/15)
21. 2012-13 SAT exam booklet (9/29/15)
22. 2012-13 SAT essay sheet (9/29/15)
23. 2012-13 SAT essay scoring sheet (9/29/15)
24. SAT Skills Insight packet (10/2/15)
25. 2011-12 ACT practice exam (10/16/15)
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List of ARRRRGH! (10/8/07)
Using the Right Word (10/8/07)
Editing and Proofreading Marks (10/8/07)
Daily Edits Set #1 (10/8/07)
Daily Edits Set #1 Review Paragraph: The Panama Canal (10/9/07)
Improving Your Students’ Reading Levels (10/9/07)
Cloze Reading from Pride and Prejudice (10/9/07)
Cloze Reading from Pride and Prejudice (10/9/07)
Cloze Reading from Pride and Prejudice Word Box (10/9/07)
Answers to Cloze Reading from Pride and Prejudice (10/9/07)
Practice Questions for Critical Reading Section (pp. 38-9 in teacher’s guide) (10/9/07)
Death of a Salesman vocabulary questions (10/10/07)
Death of a Salesman vocabulary answers (10/11/07)
Misplaced Sentence Parts (10/15/07)
Poorly Placed Modifiers (10/15/07)
Poorly Placed Modifiers Suggested Answers (10/15/07)
Place Modifying Phrases and Clauses (10/15/07)
Place Modifying Phrases and Clauses Suggested Answers (10/15/07)
Move Poorly Placed Modifiers (10/15/07)
Move Poorly Placed Modifiers Suggested Answers (10/15/07)
Practice Questions: Identifying Sentence Errors (10/15/07)
Knowing That Words Can Have Several Meanings (10/16/07)
Using the Same Word in Different Ways (10/16/07)
Find the Literal Meaning of a Passage (10/16/07)
Critical Reading Section: Practice Questions (10/17/07)
Critical Reading Section: Practice Questions Answers (10/17/07)
Essay scoring guide (10/17/07)
Daily Edits Set #3 (10/18/07)
Field trip: interpreting your surroundings (10/19/07)
Daily Edits Set #3 review paragraph: Billy Sunday (10/22/07)
Sample Paragraph That Needs Deletions (10/22/07)
Sample Paragraph with Digressions and Repetition (10/22/07)
Revised Paragraph (10/22/07)
Rewriting Practice (10/22/07)
Sample Paragraph That Needs Changes (10/23/07)
Explanations for Changes in Sample Paragraph (10/23/07)
Scoring Your Test packet (10/23/07)
Essay sheet (10/23/07)
Essay prompt: Can success be disastrous? (10/23/07)
10/24/07 SAT Question of the Day (10/24/07)
Critical Reading Sample Passage (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) (10/24/07)
Find Supporting Evidence (Texas Game Commission) (10/24/07)
Extended Reasoning and Inference (Mexican Revolution, Language, and Snakes) packet
(10/24/07)
Approaches to Identifying Sentence Errors (10/24/07)
Daily Edits Set #4 (10/25/07)
Practice essay form (blank) (10/26/07)
Practice essay prompt: Is the world changing for the better? (10/26/07)
Writing Exercise: Abstract versus Concrete writing (10/29/07)
Help Students to Write Better Essays (10/30/07)
Sample essay form: Is there always another explanation or another point of view? (10/30/07)
10/21/07 SAT Question of the Day (11/1/07)
Practice Questions (sentence correctness; “He arranged the gems”) (11/1/07)
Practice Questions answer key (11/1/07)
79. “Four Types of Sentences” (11/2/07)
80. “Appositives” (11/2/07)
81. SAT practice booklet #1 (11/5/07)