Warm-up

Answer each question in sentence form (be sure to include the question in your answer):

What is the name of your favorite sports team? Why are they your favorite?

Identify three goals you have for your life and explain your reasoning for having these goals.

If you would create a motto for your life, what would it be? Why?

Where do you see yourself in five years from now? Explain.

Warm-upMake sure you re-state the questions in your answers.What are the three types of answers on a multiple choice test? Name and define each.What is alliteration?Define the following types of poems:

Haiku - Japanese poem of 17 syllables; 3 lines; each line has 5, 7, 5 syllables

Sonnet - poem of 14 lines; usually10 syllables per line

Ballad – poem that is like a song Free-verse – poem that doesn’t follow any structure

MSL Practice

Rephrasing Questions, Multiple Choice, & Constructed Response

Re-phrasing Questions What effect is created by the attorney’s

reaction to Steve at the end of the selection? Include one example from the text to support your answer.

What effect will be caused by technology advancing in society? Include one example from the text to support your answer.

Identify DistractorsWhen people write tests they usually give:

1-2 answers that are CLEARLY WRONG. 1-2 answers that COULD BE right. ONE answer that is the BEST of all four.

The “could be right” answer is called a DISTRACTOR. It is meant to TRICK you into CHOOSING it. It’s usually an OKAY choice.

You want to find the BEST choice.

Identify nonsense and distractor answers. Eliminate them.

44. Read this sentence.

Applause exploded through the room when Brianna sang the last notes of the school song.

The phrase “exploded through the room” is used to show that the audience —

A thought the song was spectacularB wanted to add more rhythm to the songC thought the song was too loudD was very excited for the next act

Those Winter Sundays

  Sundays too my father got up earlyAnd put his clothes on in the blueback cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.When the rooms were warm, he'd call,and slowly I would rise and dress,fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,who had driven out the coldand polished my good shoes as well.What did I know, what did I knowof love's austere and lonely offices?

Besides the title, what evidence is there to suggest that the poem is about regret? Include one example to support your answer.

The evidence in the poem that suggests that it is about regret is when the author looks back and realize that he did not appreciate the things his dad did for him. The boy is now a grown-man and asks himself, “What did I know? What did I know? Of love’s austere and lonely offices?” This quote shows that the man now regrets always taking his mom’s side and not realizing how hard marriage could be. He also feels guilty about not showing his father appreciation. The boy in the story regrets not showing his father that he was grateful for the things he did for him.

MSL Poem Practice

Read the poem on page 490-491. Answer the multiple choice on the back of

your answer sheet. Answer number 10 (the constructed

response) on the front of your answer document.

Review For your written response, do the following

things: Underline your topic sentence. Put brackets around your quote. Wavy underline your commentary/explanation. Broken underline for the closing sentence.

Nonfiction: Persuasive Techniques Logical Appeal – opinion is logical.

Emotional Appeal – make reader feel.

Ethical Appeal – make reader feel that they should make a moral choice.

Persuasive Writing Claim – an argument that an author makes. Counterclaim – the side that opposes this. Evidence – the facts that prove their point. Generalization – makes it sound like

something is always a certain way. Expert’s opinion – way the author tries to

show that the experts support their argument.

MSL Nonfiction Practice

Read the articles pg 518-522. Answer the multiple choice on the back of

your answer sheet. Answer the following question on your answer

sheet: