1. OGT Writing: PREP

2. Part I: Constructed Response Items
To be successful on ALL of your OGTs, you must know how to answer a constructed response item.
Constructed Response questions MUST be answered in order to pass your OGT.
Constructed Response questions require you to respond in writing to questions.
Constructed Response questions often use PERFORMANCE VERBS to describe the task.
Part I: Constructed Response Items

3. Performance Verbs Analyze Compare/Contrast
Study the different parts that make up a conflict, situation, character, or other idea.
Your goal is to understand the whole by studying the relationship of the parts.
Analyze the symbol of the black veil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Look at the ways two or more things are alike and/or different.
Compare/ Contrast the Elizabethan sonnet with the Petrarchan sonnet.
Performance Verbs

4. Performance Verbs Critique Describe To review or analyze critically.
Critique the poet’s use of imagery in “The Red Wheelbarrow”.
Provide details about an idea, character, point of view, or other concept in order to create a mental picture for your reader.
Describe the author’s attitude towards Henry Ford.
Performance Verbs

5. Performance Verbs Evaluate Explain
Determine the value or significance of something.
Evaluate the use of imagery in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.”
Clarify an idea using your own words.
Explain how Mercutio was killed in Romeo and Juliet
Performance Verbs

6. Performance Verbs Formulate Identify
Put together a statement based on your study of given information.
Based on the article on causes of accidents, formulate a policy on cell phone usage and texting while driving a car.
To recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing.
Identify two examples of personification in the poem “Chicago”.
Performance Verbs

7. Performance Verbs Infer Predict
Deduce or guess information that is not stated by examining what IS stated.
“Read Between the Lines”
What can you infer about Mrs. Mallard’s relationship with her husband in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”?
Decide what most likely will happen based on given information.
Predict what will happen to the $10,000 Mama entrusts to her son in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
Performance Verbs

8. Performance Verbs Summarize Support
Briefly tell the main idea of a passage.
Summarize the President’s State of the Union Address.
To back up; reinforce; collaborate.
What details in the passage support the author’s viewpoint?
Performance Verbs

9. Performance Verbs Trace
To follow the course, development, or history of.
Trace the actions of the protagonist from the beginning to the end of the passage.
Now, it is your turn to try some of these!
Please put your name on the packet that you are given, read the directions and answer the questions.
You may use your notecards to help you if you get stuck.
Performance Verbs