Monday, March 9, 2009
Movie Meeting
Looking forward to hearing your ideas on Wednesday,
Snowden Senior Class Movie—Treatment
Segment Name:
Team Members and their Responsibilities:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Where does the scene take place?
Who will be filmed in the scene?
What will the people be doing?
What will the people be saying?
When do you need to film this segment? Time of day? Date?
Step-by-Step What Happens in Your Segment:
What is the message of your segment?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
SAT ? of the Day
Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
Like machinery was integral to the development of industrial capitalism, so the rapid transfer of information is the force driving modern business.
- Like
- Given that
- Since
- Just as
- Although
Choice (4) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by providing the appropriate phrase “Just as” to complete the comparison (“Just as machinery … so the rapid transfer of information”).
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
SAT ? of the Day
Part of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
Woody Guthrie wrote and adapted more than a thousand songs, many of them are about the struggles of workers and the poor in the United States.
- many of them are
- many of which are
- many are
- which are, many of them,
- and many of them that are
Choice (2) is correct. It avoids the comma-splice error of the original by using the pronoun “which” in place of the pronoun “them,” thereby turning what was originally an independent clause (“many of them are … United States”) into a relative clause that modifies “songs.”
Question Type: Improving Sentences
(Writing)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
SAT ? of the Day
Read the following SAT test question, then click on a button to select your answer.
A 25-foot ladder is placed against a vertical wall of a building, with the bottom of the ladder standing on concrete 7 feet from the base of the building. If the top of the ladder slips down 4 feet, then the bottom of the ladder will slide out
- 4 feet
- 5 feet
- 6 feet
- 7 feet
- 8 feet
The ladder, the wall, and the ground form a right triangle with a 25-foot hypotenuse. At first, the bottom of the ladder is 7 feet from the base of the building, so one leg of the right triangle measures 7 feet; the length of the other leg, x, can be found by solving 72 + x2 = 252, which is the Pythagorean theorem. From this, you can figure out that the other leg measures 24 feet.
After the ladder slips down 4 feet, the 24-foot leg of the right triangle becomes 20 feet long. The other leg then has to be 15 feet long. This length is found by solving 202 + y2 = 252, which is again the Pythagorean theorem.
Since the distance between the bottom of the ladder and the base of the building increases from 7 feet to 15 feet, the amount that the bottom of the ladder slides out is 8 feet.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
SAT ? of the Day
Read the following SAT test question, then click on a button to select your answer.
Every student who studies art in a certain school receives exactly one of the grades A, B, C, or D. If of the students receive A’s,
receive B’s,
receive C’s, and 10 students receive D’s, how many students in the school study art?
- 30
- 60
- 100
- 200
- 500
The students who receive A’s, B’s, and C’s account for +
+
of the students, that is,
. This leaves
of the students receiving D’s. You know that 10 students receive D’s, so 10 is
of the total. This means that the total number of students is 10 times 20, or 200.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
SAT ? of the Day
The following sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence contains no error, select choice E.
| Besides | conserving | forest resources, recycling |
| A |
| produces fewer pollutants | than does | the |
| B |
| conventional pulping and bleaching processes |
| that | are normally used | to create | paper. | No error |
| C | D | E |
- (A)
- (B)
- (C)
- (D)
- (E)
The error in this sentence occurs at (B), where there is subject-verb disagreement. The singular verb “does” does not agree with the plural noun “processes.” The plural verb “do” is needed instead.