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DENVER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL

William Kohut 7111 Montview Blvd  Denver, Colorado 80220 Telephone: 720.424-1700  Fax: 720.424.1845 Email: [email protected]

Class of 2017

This is assignment #6 for your ACT class. You have from April 4 – April 15 to complete the assignment. During the month of April, five DSA teachers will be offering one hour ACT reviews. Each teacher will be covering a different ACT test strategy and/or topic. These ACT reviews will be from 2:45-3:45. You may only receive credit for attending the class if you are there on time and stay the entire hour. No need to sign up. We encourage each DSA junior to go to each teacher one time. You will get some different pointers from each DSA staff member.

There are 10 classes total offered. In order to get credit for Assignment #6, you must attend 2 out of 10 classes. You may, of course attend as many as you would like, but two minimum. You may only visit each teacher once. This is simply because of room in their classroom. We suggest one math review and one English review. You pick the teacher and you pick the date. Your teacher will send attendance to the administration for record keeping.

Writing Basics Mr. Donnelly April 4 April 15 Room A122

This session will go over the ACT Essay Writing Basics. The plan is to look at the 10 key questions of essay writing and discuss strategies to maximize scores. We will then break down the six-point holistic rubric for the ACT writing test followed by reading and grading sample essays.

Sentence Structure Review Mr. Russell April 8 April 15 Room B206

This session will review the basics of sentence structure from parallelism to run-on sentences. Along with review, we will practice on ACT structured questions to help maximize scores on the multiple choice ACT English test.

Punctuation Usage Mr. Painter April 6 April 12 Room D213

This session will be reviewing punctuation usage relevant to the ACT test. There are a number of questions that require students to know when to use commas, semicolons, and less commonly used punctuation such as dashes, colons, hyphens and parentheses. Standard usage rules will be covered, and practice questions will be used to get comfortable with the way in which punctuation questions show up on the ACT.

Math Review Mrs. Wiseman April 7 April 13 Room D209

At this session you will be asked to bring in your hard copy of the Princeton Review test from September, your PSAT test from October, your ACT practice test from Jan/Feb and your Princeton Book. YOU will drive this session. You will select problems you had trouble solving. Mrs. Wiseman will walk you through how to solve them.

Science Review Ms. Brown April 5 April 14 Room B200

Science text here ACT Prebubble – April 12 at 1:05 pm ACT – April 19 at 7:35 am Sincerely,

William M. Kohut