Georgia High School Graduation Tests

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Georgia High School Graduation Tests

• Groves High School
• Tracy Saunders
• December 8, 2007

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English-Language Arts vs.The Writing Test

• !!!Must pass both to graduate!!!

• Writing test given in fall of junior year
• Persuasive writing

• ELA given spring of junior year
• ELA has three domains
• Reading Comprehension
• Literary Analysis
• Conventions and writing

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Graduation Writing Test

• 100 minutes to write a persuasive essay
• Scored in four domains
• Ideas (40)
• Style (20)
• Organization (20)
• Conventions (20)

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Graduation Writing Test

• Given three times per year
• Scores range from 100-350
• 200 is minimum passing score

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• Please look
• at your
• handout!

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GHSELAGT

• 50-60 questions
• Up to three hours and ten minutes if needed
• No penalty for guessing
• 500 to pass
• 516 for AYP

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ELA Domain One Reading Comprehension

• Approx 48 of the test
• Read passages for meaning, structure, main ideas,
  themes, vocabulary context, point-of-view, genre,
  audience, purpose

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ELA Domain One Reading Comprehension Poetry

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• End rhyme
• Internal rhyme
• Slant rhyme
• Sonnet

• Blank verse
• Fixed ballad
• Free verse
• Haiku
• Lyric
• Narrative poem

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ELA Domain One Reading Comprehension
Figurative Language

• Allusion
• Extended metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Imagery
• Irony

• Metaphor
• Paradox
• Personification
• Symbolism
• Tone

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ELA Domain Two Literary Analysis

• Approx 38 of the test
• Analyze pieces of fiction, non-fiction and
  poetry.
• American Literature

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ELA Domain Two Literary AnalysisUniversal
Themes

• Evaluate how the theme is presented
• Across literary periods
• Fiction, poetry or non-fiction

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ELA Domain One Literary AnalysisNon-Fiction

• Language
• Logic
• Rhetorical Strategies

• Style
• Syntax

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ELA Domain One Literary AnalysisFiction

• Controlling images
• Irony
• Tone
• Understatement

• What is the effect of _______ on _______?
• How does ______ effect the meaning of _____?

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ELA Domain Three Conventions Writing

• Approx 14 of the test
• Revise selections
• Use research strategies

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ELA Domain Three Conventions and
WritingProper English Usage

• Cognates
• Formal vs. informal language

• Idioms
• Literal vs. figurative meanings of words

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ELA Domain Three Conventions and
WritingWriting Decisions

• Grammar
• Structure
• Diction
• Syntax
• Developing research questions

• Logic
• Coherence
• Evaluating for audience, purpose context
• Primary secondary sources