Rules and Procedures
I should look at the board when I come into the classroom to find this.
What is the agenda?
This characteristic of informational text is the main message or main point of the text.
What is the central idea?
This term names the voice that narrates the words in a lyric poem.
What is the speaker?
What is Earthrise?
A theme is defined as this.
What is an insight about life?
This is what I do to be respectful while another classmate is speaking. You also should do this when Ms. Antle says, "mouths closed, eyes on me."
What is be quiet/not talking?
Writers of informational text use this to organize their ideas in ways that help readers follow complex ideas.
What are informational text features?
The author's purpose of lyric poetry is to capture these using imaginative language and form.
What is emotion and thought?
Spoken-word performers use gesture and this aspect of voice.
What is intonation and volume?
The theme in the poem is related to this.
What is the subject of the poem?
I should do this before class starts. If I ask to go here during class, I will be told no.
What is go to the restroom?
In literature, a theme is a message about life that the author expresses. It is different from this of the text.
What is the topic?
What are two characteristics of lyric poetry?
What is a speaker, theme, figurative language?
Name two poetic devices emphasized in spoken-word poetry.
What is rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and alliteration?
You can determine the poem's theme by doing this closely.
What is reading?
This is what I do when I want to ask a question during class.
What is raise my hand?
This is the sequence of events in a piece of literature.
What is the plot?
What structural element groups lines together in a lyric poem?
What is a stanza?
The author's purpose is to do this through performance.
What is express a message or raise awareness?
You can determine a poem's theme by answering these questions.
"What vivid word, descriptions, or statements seem important?"
"What emotion is expressed?"
What are early finishers/read a library book/work on other assignments?
This is the time and place in which the events occur in a piece of literature.
What is the story's setting?
What structure may the author use to reinforce meaning?
What are visual elements?
These are the three characteristics of spoken-word poetry.
What is recited aloud with great emotion, may be memorized or read from a text, and conveys theme, or insights about life?
Fill-in-the-blank: A lyric poem's speaker may or may not share the poet's views; the speaker functions like a _______ in a story.
What is a narrator?