ACT writing ACT writing Jeopardy!Jeopardy!

ACT writing ACT writing Jeopardy!Jeopardy!

PlanningPlanning CompositionComposition RevisionRevision Scoring & Scoring & StrategiesStrategies

PotpourriPotpourri

100 100 100 100 100

200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500500 500500 500500

A.A. 100100underline important sections underline important sections

or words in this before or words in this before beginning your essay beginning your essay

essay promptessay prompt

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A.A. 200200this is how many minutes this is how many minutes

you have to read, plan and you have to read, plan and write the essaywrite the essay

30 minutes30 minutes

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A.A. 300300these are two pre-writing these are two pre-writing strategies you can usestrategies you can use

brainstorm, graphic brainstorm, graphic organizer or outlineorganizer or outline

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A.A. 400400the number of supporting the number of supporting

points you should have for a points you should have for a great essaygreat essay

three to fourthree to four

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A.A. 500500what should go in the what should go in the

second to last paragraph, second to last paragraph, or if you run out of time, or if you run out of time,

the last paragraphthe last paragraph

counterargument or rebuttalcounterargument or rebuttal

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B. 100B. 100what are the three main what are the three main

sections of the essaysections of the essay

introductionintroduction

bodybody

conclusionconclusion

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B. 200B. 200clearly state this at the end of clearly state this at the end of

your first paragraphyour first paragraph

your thesisyour thesis

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B. 300B. 300 make logical relationships make logical relationships

clear by using theseclear by using these

transitional words and phrases transitional words and phrases within and between paragraphswithin and between paragraphs

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B. 400B. 400 a strong conclusion does this a strong conclusion does this

summarizes and reinforces summarizes and reinforces your position and restates your position and restates

your thesisyour thesis

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B. 500B. 500when you avoid saying the when you avoid saying the

same thing over and over again, same thing over and over again, this is calledthis is called

conciseconcise

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C. 100C. 100take a few minutes before the end take a few minutes before the end

of the testing session to do thisof the testing session to do this

proofreadproofread

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C. 200C. 200 if you find any words that are if you find any words that are

hard to read, then do thishard to read, then do this

rewrite the wordsrewrite the words

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C. 300C. 300the ACT readers do not expect the ACT readers do not expect

your draft to be thisyour draft to be this

perfectperfect

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C. 400C. 400 where you should make where you should make corrections and revisions corrections and revisions

between the linesbetween the lines

(not in the margins!)(not in the margins!)

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C. 500C. 500 the four major “proofreading” the four major “proofreading”

categoriescategories

grammar, usage, punctuation grammar, usage, punctuation and spellingand spelling

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D. 100D. 100 highest score you can receive highest score you can receive

on the writing teston the writing test

twelvetwelve

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D. 200D. 200 True/False True/False

you should write your essay on you should write your essay on every other line (double space) every other line (double space)

falsefalse

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D. 300D. 300 the number of readers who the number of readers who

grade your essaygrade your essay

twotwo

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D. 400D. 400how much time should you allot how much time should you allot

for each section: planning, for each section: planning, writing and revising writing and revising

planning = 5 minutesplanning = 5 minutes

writing = 20 minuteswriting = 20 minutes

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D. 500D. 500it doesn’t matter what side you it doesn’t matter what side you

take when you write your essay, take when you write your essay, as long as you write with thisas long as you write with this

passionpassion

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E. 100E. 100 this precedes the writing test this precedes the writing test

sciencescience

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E. 200E. 200this is how many paragraphs a this is how many paragraphs a

strong essay would havestrong essay would have

sixsix

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E. 300E. 300the opening sentence that grabs the opening sentence that grabs

the reader’s attention is thisthe reader’s attention is this

hookhook

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E. 400E. 400the first sentence of each body the first sentence of each body

paragraph should be this type of paragraph should be this type of sentencesentence

topic sentencetopic sentence

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E. 500E. 500each body paragraph should each body paragraph should contain this many examples contain this many examples

two to threetwo to three

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