ACT Prep Tests

Next week (May 21 - 25), we will be taking more English Department ACT Prep Tests.  Again, these don't count towards your grade, but they ARE examined to monitor your progress as an English student, looking at your abilities to examine texts for content, meaning, and writing errors (sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, etc.).  It is highly recommended you go online and take some of the ACT Prep Tests for practice.  These practice tests are great because, when you select a wrong answer, it will tell you what the correct answer is and WHY.  (In other words, it will explain the English rules that are to be followed.)  
In English, you take two different types of tests: the "English" test (grammar, punctuation, structure) and the "Reading" test (understanding the content and meaning of what you've read).

The links to the two sites (Reading and English) are:

http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/english/eng_01.html

http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/reading/read_01.html

If the links do not work, you may go to:  http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/index.html

Then click on "Reading" and "English" to take each sample test. 
PLEASE practice these exams.  They don't take a lot of time and they will definitely help prepare you for the ACT and other standardized tests that will be important in your high school career!