1. Intro to SAT Writing and Language / ACT English
Be sure to do the writing skills inventory at the end!

2. Comparison New SAT Writing ACT English 1 section (35 minutes)
4 passages
11 questions per section
Most are "best version" questions
Some "Writing strategy" questions within each passage
Essay score is reported separately
1 section (45 minutes)
5 passages
15 questions per section
Most are "best version" questions
Some "Writing strategy" questions within each passage
Scaled English score is part of composite – English/Writing composite score reported separately

3. What’s covered? Both tests: NEITHER: Idiomatic expressions
Fragments and run-ons
Subject-verb agreement
Pronoun case and agreement
Verb tense
Modifiers (misplaced and dangling)
Parallel structure and comparisons
Wordiness
Diction
Transitions
Style, focus, organization
Punctuation
Spelling
Parts of Speech

4. ACT/SAT:
Passage and questions

5. ACT/SAT:
Passage and questions

6. Writing Skills Inventory
We’re goin’ back to grammar school…

7. How many of these terms can you define?
Independent clause
Comma splice
Subordinate/Dependent clause
Coordinating conjunction
Relative clause
Subordinating conjunction
Phrase
Direct object
Prepositional phrase
Predicate nominative
Subjective/Nominative case
Predicate adjective
Objective Case
Essential adjective
Possessive case
Oxford comma
Idiom
Fragment
Past/Present/Future perfect
Parenthetical commas
Predicate verb
Interrogative sentence
Run-on
Passive/Active voice
How many of these terms can you define?
These terms are not tested, but you need to know them in order to understand the tested concepts.

8. Can you diagram these sentences?
Diagramming sentences is stupid.
I do not believe that we have to make a diagram for this sentence.
Can you diagram these sentences?
Again, diagramming is not tested, but it does help in understanding sentence structure.

9. How did you do?
This is where I planned to embed the “Word Crimes” video, but Vevo is being a jerk about letting me do that.