Monday, March 11, 2013

MCAS Prep - Prepare Yourself for Success

MCAS Prep:

Next week is MCAS - prepare yourself for success!



There are two parts of the MCAS: Long Composition and Reading Comprehension.

The Long Composition is meant to evaluate whether or not you can articulately organize your thoughts around a topic and use a text to support your ideas. Think of this as a similar task to your UHE blogs and other in-class essays we have written this year. 

The Reading Comprehension section - which includes non-fiction, fiction, poetry, or other types of texts - will test if you can read and answer questions (both multiple choice and open response). Consider this a similar task to your poetry portfolio, the writing on the narrator we did, the knifefight scene, and anytime you have read the nutrition facts on a food and made an argument about why you should or shouldn't eat it. 

For both the Long Comp and the Reading Comprehension, you will use the writing and analytical skills we have worked on all year: strong thesis statements/topic sentences, clear use of support and explanation, brilliant analysis that ties together. On no part of the MCAS should you be writing straight summary.


Full Review: 
Practice Test - from 2012
Released Test - April 2012 (Long comp starts on numbered page 6)
Released Test - April 2010
Strategy Booklet


Long Composition: 
Book Review for Long Composition - fill this out
Scoring Guide for Long Composition
2012 Prompt
2011 Prompt
2010 Prompt


Reading Comprehension (text, multiple choice questions, open response questions): 
Practice Test
Practice Excerpt (questions at the bottom)

Graded student responses to the 'Bridge of Sighs' excerpt

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