1. LESSON 56

2. TODAY’S AGENDA  SAT  Vocabulary  Writing Skills Practice  Reading Comprehension Practice Test

3. THE SAT HIGH-FREQUENCY WORD LIST & HOT PROSPECTS LIST  Vocabulary Flashcards  Share-a-Word 1)Choose one of your words and EXPLAIN it to a classmate. 2)After explaining, the classmate should make his own flashcard of that word. 3)Swap roles and repeat.

4. SAT PRACTICE TEST  Grade and Discuss

5. WRITING SKILLS: GENERAL RULES Identifying Sentence Errors  Answer choice A is the same as the original.  1/5 of the answers will be A  Look for most common errors  Subject-verb agreement  Pronoun-antecedent problem  Misuse of adjectives and adverbs  Misplaced and dangling modifiers Improving Sentences  Answer choice A is the same as the original.  Pay particular attention to shorter answer choices.  Make sure that all parts of a sentence given in a series are similar in form.  If you don’t spot the error, look at the changes in the answer choice for clues.

6. SAT PRACTICE TEST  25 minutes for 24 Questions  Graded on a scale – not 24/24.