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California High School Exit Exam
The following website is THE complete comprehensive website from the State of California Department of Education concerning the CAHSEE. I will be using mostly resources from this document. It contains sample multiple choice questions, sample essay prompts, and sample student essays.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/ela08rtq.pdf
I also have a file with numerous literary terms and other concepts and skills you should be familiar with to receive a high score on the CAHSEE. You can access that file at the very top of this page. It is titled CAHSEE Notes.
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PERSUASIVE ESSAY Practice Prompt for 2014:
Tourism committees spend a great deal of money each year advocating natural landmarks of states and countries. By using media such as posters, magazine advertisements, television commercials, and radio advertisements, committees are able to send a message about beautiful places, and hopefully convince some tourists to travel to those places.
Suppose you have been hired by a tourism committee. Write a persuasive essay in which you identify a place in the world that has something tourists might find interesting. Explain precisely what makes that particular place so special. Develop your ideas so that a potential tourist would be persuaded to visit the place you have identified.
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EXPOSITORY ESSAY Practice Prompt(s) for 2014 (Pick one and write a 4-5 paragraph essay. We will start this in class, if you don't finish it in class, finish it on your own at home and bring it to class completed and ready to turn in on Friday, January 24, 2014.)
Throughout your years in school, you have studied about many different people. Think about one of these people you have studied during your time at school. What makes this person special enough to study?
Write an essay in which you discuss a person you have studied in school. Explain what it is about this person that is so special. Use details and examples to support your ideas.
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Television, radio, newspaper, and individual conversations are just a few sources of news available to us. While most people probably rely on combinations of these sources for their news, some people rely on a particular source almost exclusively.
Write an essay discussing the relative strengths and weaknesses of one particular source for news. Provide examples to illustrate your claims. Develop your ideas so vividly that a reader will have a clear understanding of the benefits and shortcomings of a particular source of news.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE ESSAY Practice Prompt for 2014:
If you could spend one day with an historical person or a fictional character, who would it be? What would you do during your day together? Where would you go? What would you talk about?
Write a narrative essay describing where you and this person would go and what you and this person would do. Be sure to use details and evidence supporting your ideas.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/ela08rtq.pdf
I also have a file with numerous literary terms and other concepts and skills you should be familiar with to receive a high score on the CAHSEE. You can access that file at the very top of this page. It is titled CAHSEE Notes.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PERSUASIVE ESSAY Practice Prompt for 2014:
Tourism committees spend a great deal of money each year advocating natural landmarks of states and countries. By using media such as posters, magazine advertisements, television commercials, and radio advertisements, committees are able to send a message about beautiful places, and hopefully convince some tourists to travel to those places.
Suppose you have been hired by a tourism committee. Write a persuasive essay in which you identify a place in the world that has something tourists might find interesting. Explain precisely what makes that particular place so special. Develop your ideas so that a potential tourist would be persuaded to visit the place you have identified.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
EXPOSITORY ESSAY Practice Prompt(s) for 2014 (Pick one and write a 4-5 paragraph essay. We will start this in class, if you don't finish it in class, finish it on your own at home and bring it to class completed and ready to turn in on Friday, January 24, 2014.)
Throughout your years in school, you have studied about many different people. Think about one of these people you have studied during your time at school. What makes this person special enough to study?
Write an essay in which you discuss a person you have studied in school. Explain what it is about this person that is so special. Use details and examples to support your ideas.
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Television, radio, newspaper, and individual conversations are just a few sources of news available to us. While most people probably rely on combinations of these sources for their news, some people rely on a particular source almost exclusively.
Write an essay discussing the relative strengths and weaknesses of one particular source for news. Provide examples to illustrate your claims. Develop your ideas so vividly that a reader will have a clear understanding of the benefits and shortcomings of a particular source of news.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE ESSAY Practice Prompt for 2014:
If you could spend one day with an historical person or a fictional character, who would it be? What would you do during your day together? Where would you go? What would you talk about?
Write a narrative essay describing where you and this person would go and what you and this person would do. Be sure to use details and evidence supporting your ideas.
