Reading & Writing Group B

Tue and Thu, 1:30–3:30 PM UTCTeacher: Sam Carter

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Last class

Thu, Nov 5 · 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Boundaries: commas, semicolons, colons

Isla Whitfield
Owen Parker
Lily Hughes
Henry Collins

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Sessions

17 so far

Thu, Nov 5
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Boundaries: commas, semicolons, colons
Marked the evidence line in every passage before choosing an answer, and accuracy held up.
3 present, 1 late
Tue, Nov 3
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Inferences from short passages
Annotated two passages together and compared each main-idea sentence.
3 present, 1 late
Thu, Oct 29
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Command of evidence: quantitative
Spent the session on transitions and stopped changing answers at the last second.
3 present, 1 late
Tue, Oct 27
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Cross-text connections
Went back over last week's homework mistakes before starting new material.
All present
Thu, Oct 22
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Text structure and purpose
Pacing improved on the second module; two question types were flagged for extra practice.
2 present, 1 late, 1 absent

Show 12 earlier classes

Tue, Oct 20
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Words in context: tone and precision
Slowed down on the harder items and starred the questions to redo at home.
All present
Thu, Oct 15
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Timed module practice + review
Finished the timed set with time to spare and reviewed every miss.
All present
Tue, Oct 13
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Central ideas and details
Reviewed homework results and picked the three skills to drill before the next practice test.
All present
Thu, Oct 8
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Rhetorical synthesis from notes
Read each question stem first; careless misses dropped by the end of the set.
3 present, 1 absent
Tue, Oct 6
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Transitions and logical flow
Walked through the rhetorical synthesis questions, focusing on what the notes actually support.
2 present, 2 absent
Thu, Oct 1
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Form, structure and sense: verb agreement
Sorted the wrong answers from the last practice test by skill.
3 present, 1 late
Tue, Sep 29
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Boundaries: commas, semicolons, colons
Practiced skimming a passage in under a minute and rereading only for evidence.
All present
Thu, Sep 24
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Inferences from short passages
Built a short checklist for verb agreement and tested it on a mixed set.
All present
Tue, Sep 22
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Command of evidence: quantitative
Timed warm-up of ten questions, then a slower second pass on every miss.
3 present, 1 late
Thu, Sep 17
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Cross-text connections
Went through the hardest cross-text question line by line.
3 present, 1 late
Tue, Sep 15
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Text structure and purpose
Worked the words-in-context set aloud, explaining why each choice fit the tone.
All present
Thu, Sep 10
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Words in context: tone and precision
Rewrote three wrong answers in plain words to find where the reading went off track.
All present