Keystone Practive

 **THIS LESSON WILL BE TAUGHT OVER A TWO WEEK PERIOD

1. Students will review the format of the Keystone exam.

2. Students will discuss previous samplers

3. Students will review techniques:  

4. Review Parallel Structure (PowerPoint on GC)

5. Commas, Semicolons, Colons:

CLICK THIS LINK TO REVIEW COMMA, SEMICOLON, COLON RULES

#Comma exercise: (turn your sentences in to www.turnitn.com before class on Wednesday, 1/11)

Write two sentences for each rule (List the rule and highlight the commas)

A. Series

B/. Coordinating Conjunction

C. Introductory Elements

D. Coordinating adjectives

E. Contrast/ Turn in sent

F. City/ State, Country, year

G. Quotes

H. Appositive

I. Interjection

6. Embedding TEXTUAL/ CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO REVIEW TEXTUAL/ CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE

Answering multiple choice questions

Essay Response

2018 and 2019 Samplers are also in GC.

Responding to a formal prompt:

Before your begin:

READ the PROMPT

(ANSWER THE PROMPT)

ORGANIZE

• Look for the words "explain" or "describe" in the writing prompt. Expository prompts direct you to write an essay...
• Brainstorm about what the prompt is asking you to write about. Make sure you don't try to cover so much that your essay becomes unorganized and difficult to prove/ support
• Create a thesis statement. For expository essays, the thesis statement says what you will be proving in your essay.  It should always be a provable point....not just a blank statement.  

4. Include evidence

-Introduce evidence

-State/ restate evidence

-Support your evidence (give it a purpose - EMBED EVIDENCE)

5. Conclude

6. Proof

Standards:

Standard - CC.1.2.9-10.A

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

Standard - CC.1.3.9-10.K

Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.