Is the May 4th Question too easy? Judiethcarol&Rocketcat c
www.coolrocketschool.org
Maybe it’s so easy for you because you have been practicing Rocketcat’s RACECAR strategy. If this is true, we’re thinking you barely saw the checkered flag go down because you were finished less than a car length from the starting line.
Read from the top right corner to through the directions and to the blank. Fill in a simple word from your personal ‘bank’ and look for the word like that one in the answers.
1 Speed through title and directions.
2 Drive to the blank and drop a marker word to hold the spot.
3 Find the match to the marker word. Back up fast to pop the winning word in the blank to test it. Realize that you have already eliminated a couple of other possibilities. Mark your answer sheet. Speed on down the road!
You win. You are right. You do not even need to go backwards to eliminate a wrong answer or two, as the answer is far enough down the list. You have already eliminated enough. Mark the answer when you find it, and drive on—patent Rocket Racecar style. The palindrome, Racecar, reminds you to check backwards to eliminate at least one or two wrong answers. But, unless the answer is A, which this one is not, you’ve been there, done that.
Here is how it goes today. Remember that you read the title and the directions to put your mind in the correct gear to drive smoothly.
Critical Reading Sentence Completion ‘Critical’ reading means that you are reading to detect meaning, tone, theme—A ‘critic’ notices everything. Consider this Hardy Boy or Nancy Drew reading.
Critical Reading >Sentence Completion
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, BEST fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
(Nancy Drew Note: We need a word to make the sentence whole and complete.)
Those scholars who believe that the true author of the poem died in 1812
(Make a video in your mind of teachers with graduation style hats on sitting around talking about who REALLY wrote a certain poem. See ‘POET DIED IN 1812’ on their whiteboard.)
(They) consider the authenticity of this particular manuscript ______(Nancy Drew: They think it is NOT TRUE) because it includes references to events that occurred in 1818.
Write on their whiteboard: Poem talks about 1818 stuff.
Do you see this little scenario? The scholars say the poet died in 1812, but the poem has some things in it about what happened in 1818—after the death of the poet. Something is NOT RIGHT!
Look at the possibilities. You are looking for a word that means ‘not right’ or ‘not true’?
A.Ageless (Huh? That is not the right kind of meaning.) NO.
B.tenuous NO
C. Suspect --YEP—It is suspicious or ‘suspect’—That word even fits our ‘Nancy Drew/Hardy Boy’ scenario.
JUST MARK THE ANSWER SHEET AND MOVE ON. YOU HAVE ALREADY ELIMINATED TWO INCORRECT ANSWERS!!!! Speed on down the Road!
D. Unique
E. Legitimate
If you did this in Rocketcat’s style, you were finished in less than a minute. Included in your point win is the checking and eliminating of at least two other answers. You have your point, checked your point, and take your extra time to another type of question. GOOD RACE! judiethcarol@rocketcatc.May2010
