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Welcome to Mrs. Dunn's page! For 2011-2012, I am teaching English II, Pre-AP English and Freedom Writers I, as well as being the faculty advisor for the Durfee Freedom Writers Club. If you have any questions, please stop by Room 490 or email me at edunn@fallriverschools.org.

                
                              

English II - Of Mice and Men and MCAS Strategies

Pre-AP - 1984 and The Merchant of Venice

MCAS Preparation:

LONG COMPOSITION STRATEGY:

Introduction, talk about the prompt

Talk about the story, summarize

Answer the question

Conclusion, make a connection: Text to text, text to self, text to world

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Open Response Strategy:

The sophomore team elected to use the following acronym to teach the open response:

Read

Read the question first so you know what you are looking for as you begin to read. Also make sure to read the Italicized Section before the passage as it sometimes gives clues or even parts of the answer that you will need.

Highlight

Using your highlighter, highlight any information within the reading passage that will help you build your answer to the question. REMEMBER: Only highlight the reading passages, not your answer book!

Answer

Restate the question and then using the highlighted information, build your answer. Some ideas on how to put in your highlighted sentences:

The passage states, "quote".

In addition, the author writes, "quote".

For example, "quote".

Prove

After each quote or paraphrased sentence from the passage, you need to explain how it answers the question. Some ideas how to do this:

This clearly shows… (relate quote to claim)….because….

Here the author illustrates… (relate quote to claim)...because…

Here, we see… (relate quote to claim)…because…

Remember, a smart answer sums everything up at the end

"This is how the author shows..."