The Ged Language Arts, Writing Test

Objective: At the end of this lesson, students will be able to classify sentences according to their type of sentence structure.

3. In what ways do paragraphs 4-6 serve to illustrate the main idea of paragraph 3? (Glossary: Illustration)

Think about your experiences of writing at college. Which types of assignments have you found helpful in strengthening your writing skills? Where do you want to improve your writing? What’s the most useful advice you’re received that’s helped you improve your writing. Be as specific as possible.

a. Is there some section that clearly lets the reader know what subject the composition is about and what the writer’s purpose is? If so, where does this section begin and end? In this section, can you find an answer to the central question that the text has been written in response to, or can you find an indication of the text’s central argument?

2. Which of the following would be an appropriate way to add variety to your sentences?

* Review the formation and use of the perfect active, perfect passive, and present active participles 1.1;1.2

Occasionally, people use to go out and rent DVD’s to watch a specific movie from rental stores. Advancement in technology has brought a sufficient change in customer’s behaviors, today DVD rental stores have almost gone. Moreover, by time we saw enormous increase in channels being provided by cable providers, but today even that has been replaced by streaming media devices, thus my time, role of cable providers might also disappear due to the introduction of devices such as Netflix, Apple TV etc. “DVD sales have also been hit. The Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group estimates DVD sales in 2008 fell 8% to $21.6 billion from a year earlier, while DVD rentals were flat.” Charny, Ben. "Viewers Tap Free Web Content." Wall Street Journal, Eastern

Directions: Identify whether each group of words is a PH (phrase) or a CL (clause).

Also remember that writing is process which takes time to perfect. English has never been one of my favorite subjects, mainly just because I never really consider myself to be a good writer and by the normal standard I may not be. In a sense though, I found contrary to my belief that my writing wasn’t all that bad. Now it took time for me to see that for myself, because

Common Core Standardized testing has been a controversial topic since its beginning. People tend to either love it or hate it, and there seems to be no in between. Common Core has brought added stress to teenagers' already stressful lives and shows no improvement in how students learn. However, there are still people who idealize it and believe it will raise their level of education.

d.) The author repeatedly refers to Eric and Dylan as very intelligent and recognizes that they

My 1 page 9th grade writing assessment will be about how to train an athlete for any sport. I am going to share and or explain why I feel this topic I chose should be important to you. I think it should be an important topic to talk about because a lot of teens and kids get peer pressured to join activities that they necessarily don’t want to participate in. Also, their parents start to wonder why they aren’t playing good or as if they seem like they aren’t trying , well maybe now they understand that they have pressured them into something they are not interested in doing. Kids feel as parents don’t listen to them as much anymore about their taste and or extra curricular activities.

Synatic: Students will be able to develop multiple compound sentences while writing their reflection and reports regarding the story.

The AWPE, or Analytical Writing Placement Exam, is a placement exam which incoming UC Frosh, or freshman going into the University of California System, have to take in order to be placed in a in a regular Core English Class if passed or a remedial writing class if failed . Of course, one may choose to waive the test by meeting the requirements of English proficiency by meeting the required standards by SAT score results, passing an AP English with a 3 or above, or by IP Baccalaureate scoring.

B) A paragraph mark at the end of a paragraph only indicates the presence of a hard return.