SAT Reading answers 1. B 12. B 2. B 13. D 3. C 14. A 4. A 15. A 5. C

SAT Writing answers 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. A

ACT English answers A G J D H B C F

Act Reading answers A J C H F B D

Reading Test Basic Approach

SAT Reading Mission: Read 5 passages and answer 10-11 questions for each passage Determine words in context Author’s purpose for a detail Find the main idea of a passage Pinpoint information on a graph

ACT Reading Mission: Read 4 passages and answer 10 questions for each passage Determine words in context Author’s purpose or function of a paragraph Find the main theme of a passage Find the correct information Inference questions

Reading Consider: Type of passage: literature, science, history/social studies Topic of passage: blurb gives you basic information Types of questions: Line#?

Basic Approach Read the blurb to identify the type of passage Understand the question Read what you need Use the Line references and questions to guide you Predict the correct answer The answer should come straight from the text. Don’t analyze. Use POE

Step 1: Read the Blurb The passage that follows is adapted from an 1859 novel that follows the lives of both English and French characters during the French Revolution. 1. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to describe the history between Carton and Stryver. characterize life at the Shrewsbury School. reveal Carton’s character. show that Stryver has been exploiting Carton.

Step 2. Select and Understand a Question If you don’t have time, don’t read the whole passage Questions tell you what details are important Questions are in chronological order Rephrase the question: Who? What? Why?

Understand the questions 2. Based on the information in the passage, Carton is best characterized as: unsound. mercurial. unlucky. imperceptive.

Step 3: Read What You Need Line reference: Line number is provided Lead words: names, quotes, phrases that are easy to spot Ex: ACT 2. The narrator describes the photos by Bombay’s first great photographers as primarily inspiring the narrator to: (Line 61) “It was from my father that I learned of Bombay’s first great photographers…”

Read What you Need Topic sentences, concluding sentences 5 Above, 5 Below rule 10. The “tears” referred to in line 85 are “wasted” because Miss Manette will never love Carton. Carton is unlikely to change his ways. Carton’s home is one of squalor. Stryver will continue to exploit Carton’s labor

Read What You Need Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, (line 85) and its pillow was wet with wasted tears, Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Step 4: Predict Your Answer Know what you’re looking for in advance Stick with the text Don’t paraphrase or analyze

Predict Your Answer 17. The primary rhetorical effect of the last sentence of the passage is to Convey the sense of dread that hung over Estonia at the height of the Singing Revolution Indicate the depth of disagreement between violent and non-violent revolutionaries Show how crucial music and poetry were to Estonia’s fight for independence Communicate the sense of optimistic tension that Estonians felt after the Night Song Festivals

Predict Your Answer Estonia remained occupied by the Soviets….. (-) This was the heart of “The Singing Revolution,” a spontaneous, non-violent, but powerful political movement that united Estonians with poetry and music. After that there was no backing up. Sedition hung in the wind, waiting to be denied. (?)

Step 5: Process of Elimination Look for the wrong answer and eliminate wrong answer choices Pay attention to what it is the question is asking for Does your selection answer the question? Use First Word Analysis

POE 5. Which of the following statements best captures how the narrator’s parents balanced their parental duties with their work at the construction company? The narrator’s mother did…work The narrator’s parents traded off responsibility… The narrator’s father worked… The narrator’s parents…worked at the company

POE ETS will give you answer choices with words that look like the passage to trick you. Make sure you’re reading carefully and not just matching words!

Notice Reading Test September 1, 2016 (Wednesday) Reminder: Test of Reading skills You will be tested on both tests in the semester

Homework Correct your SAT test (by Friday) Study Vocabulary Set #1 from VOCAB Intensive Camp for Tuesday, August 30 Write a sentence for each word on the list on separate lined A4 paper