Monday, March 18, 2024

WEEK 8


 YOUR WORK:

1. ACT Q set (Passage IV, beginning with "Comic books...")  Corrections.

2. Reading skills practice....


a. Skill Builder 1

b. Skill Builder 2

Check here for the corrections for 2a 2b 


3. GO HERE. Read each of the five passages and answer those questions. Set your timer for 42 minutes (that's the same pace as the ACT test, but you'll be answering 48 questions instead of 40 in 35 minutes). You'll be reading these passages:

  1. "Men of Brewster Place"
  2. "Personality Disorders"
  3. "A Poem of One's Own"
  4. "How to Build a Baby's Brain"
  5. A pair of passages: "In Orbit" and "On July 20th 1969" 


4. In week 5, you watched this video on context and framing. Make sure you're including these strategies in this week's essay.

5. This week we'll leave the SAT and start with the ACT style prompts.  Go HERE for the prompt.  



DUE FRIDAY @ 5:00.



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