14 Most Powerful Words for the EOG

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14 Most Powerful Words for the EOG

• Infer
• Analyze
• Signify
• Trace
• Evaluate
• Formulate
• Summarize

• Explain
• Contrast
• Compare
• Predict
• Support
• Conclude
• Describe

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What can you infer about this man? Support your
answer with evidence from the cartoon.
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Analyze one of these problems by writing
directions in words your Language Arts teacher
can understand.

• Find the area of this figure
• A pair of jeans is on sale for 25 off the
  regular price of 47. How much money is
  discounted off the regular price?
• 3. What is the slope and y-intercept of y 3x
  4?

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What is the most significant sentence in the
following paragraphs? Explain your answer.
Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses
shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our
schools fail too many, and each day brings
further evidence that the ways we use energy
strengthen our adversaries and threaten our
planet. These are the indicators of crisis,
subject to data and statistics. Less measurable,
but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence
across our land a nagging fear that America's
decline is inevitable, that the next generation
must lower its sights. Today I say to you that
the challenges we face are real, they are serious
and they are many. They will not be met easily or
in a short span of time. But know this America
They will be met. Barak Obama Inaugural
Speech 2009
5
Trace the events in a typical day at school for
an IB student at NorthView.






6
Evaluate the family in this picture, giving good
reasons for your evaluation.
7
Formulate (develop) a plan to surprise your
favorite relative on his/her birthday!
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Summarize the following paragraph.

• Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused
  by bacteria whose scientific name is
  Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It was first isolated
  in 1882 by a German physician named Robert Koch
  who received the Nobel prize for this discovery.
  TB most commonly affects the lungs but also can
  involve almost any organ of the body. Many years
  ago, this disease was referred to as
  "consumption" because without effective
  treatment, these patients often would waste away.
  Today, of course, tuberculosis usually can be
  treated successfully with antibiotics.

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Explain the water cycle to a younger student.
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Contrast these two locations.
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Compare these two vehicles.
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Predict what will happen next. Give good reasons
for your prediction.
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All NorthView students should be allowed to sit
outside at lunch.Argue for or against this
statement giving at least three good supporting
reasons for your point of view.
14
Read this mystery and come to a conclusion that
answers the final question.

• Near Miss
• A man was driving a black truck through a busy
  town.
• His lights were not on.
• The moon was not out.
• Suddenly a young girl stepped onto the road.
• The man swerved to avoid her.
• But how did he see her?

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Describe this scene.