Literature
This story tells about a girl who discovers that growing up means accepting both strengths and weaknesses.
Who is Aleeza Kazmi?
This type of sentence is incomplete because it lacks a subject, verb, or complete thought.
What is a fragment?
This type of writing explains a topic using facts, details, and examples.
What is an informative essay?
This family drank from the spring and became immortal.
Who are the Tucks?
This is the name of the main character.
Who is Esperanza Ortega?
Jane Goodall describes her experiences studying these animals in the wild.
What are chimpanzees?
This error occurs when two complete sentences are joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions.
What is a run-on sentence?
This type of essay aims to convince readers to agree with a position.
What is an argumentative essay?
This young girl discovers the secret of the magical spring.
Who is Winnie Foster?
After leaving Mexico, Esperanza and her family moved to this state.
What is California?
In this story, a magical kettle transforms into a strange creature.
What is The Tanuki Kettle?
"She is studying for her test right now." This tense is being used.
What is the present continuous tense?
This writing tells a story with characters, setting, conflict, and plot.
What is a narrative?
Drinking from this caused people to stop aging forever.
What is the spring (the water from the spring)?
This event forces Esperanza and her mother to leave their wealthy life behind.
What is her father's death?
This novel follows Meg Murry as she travels through space and time to rescue her father.
What is A Wrinkle in Time?
In the sentence "The excited students quickly entered the room," this word is an adverb.
What is quickly?
This sentence in a paragraph usually introduces the main idea.
What is a topic sentence?
This character wanted to sell the spring water and become rich.
Who is the Man in the Yellow Suit?
This character becomes a close friend and later a romantic interest for Esperanza.
Who is Miguel?
This literary theme appears in many of the texts studied this year and focuses on learning responsibility and maturity.
What is growing up?
"I was reading when the phone rang." The action "was reading" is written in this tense.
What is the past continuous tense?
These are the three main parts of an essay.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion?
This major theme teaches that life is valuable because it eventually ends.
What is the importance of the natural cycle of life and death?
This theme is shown through Esperanza's journey from privilege to hard work and responsibility.
What is resilience/perseverance?