City of Ember
Doon, Lina, Poppy, The mayor, Lizzie
What was the conflict in the Prince & the Pauper
The Prince and Tom (the Pauper) decided to trade places, but when it came time to trade back Tom didn’t want to
Nouns common, proper and compound
Verbs action and linking
Common Nouns:a name given to everything or every one of the same class or kind
Propper Noun: a specific name for a particular person, place, or thing
Compound Noun: a noun made up of two or more words.
Action Verb: a verb that describes an action
Linking Verb: A verb that connects the subject of a sentence to an adjective, noun, or pronoun that completes the meaning of the verb
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Alliteration: words in a poem that have the same beginning sound
Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally, but used for emphasis
Setting
Characters
Setting: where and when the story took place
Characters: the people who are in the story
What happened to the grandma
She died in her sleep and when it was morning time Lina woke up and found her dead
How was Laurie lying
He kept telling his family about this guy in the same class that supposedly did and said bad stuff. Then there was a parent teacher conference for all the parents in the grade and the mom found out that there was no Charles and that the kid doing the bad stuff was her own kid.
Adjective
Adverb
Adjective: A word related to a noun to desc it
Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc
Metaphor
Simile
Metaphor: a comparison stating one thing is another
Simile: a comparison using the words like or as
Conflict
Plot
Conflict:The problem in the story
Plot: The main events in the story
The setting
The City of Ember
What is Duffy’s problem
He is very forgetful
Pronoun
Phrase & clause
Pronoun: is a type of word that replaces a noun
Phrase: a group of pairing words in English
Clause: a group of words with a subject and a verb that are normally used to add more detail to the noun in a sentence
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Personification: a figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities
Onomatopoeia: words that sound like the objects or actions to which they refer
Exposition
Rising Action
Exposition: the beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced
Rising Action: where the main character faces a series of conflicts
How did Lina’s dad die
He fell in the river while trying to escape the City of Ember
What was the setting in The School Play
The Classroom
Independent & dependent clauses
Run on & fragment sentences
Independent clause: a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought
Dependent clause: is a group of words that contain a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought
Run on sentence:a sentence with a subject and a verb that can stand on its own
Fragment sentence: incomplete sentences
Rhyme
Rhythm
Rhyme: the words that have the same ending sounds
Rhythm: the beat or regular pattern of sound found in some poems
Falling Action
Falling Action: events leading to the end of the story
Plot of the story
The City of Ember is falling apart, so Doon and Lina try to find a way out with a set of instructions that the ”Builders” left behind for them to find. Everyone is against the idea except their closest friends and family, then Lina finds out that her dad died by falling in the river while trying to leave Ember. When Doon, Lina, and Poppy leave Ember they have to walk out of a tunnel, and when they do Poppy finds a note that tells how they made city of ember. In the short couple pages of the not the women who wrote it said the scientists set it up because something was happening in the world and the didn’t want all the humans to die off.
How many miles did Duffy’s Mom and Aunt Elise drive to get supplies
20 Miles away
Subject-verb agreement
Subject-Verb agreement: the grammatical concept that the subject of a sentence must align with the main verb of that same sentence
Repetition
Stanza
Repetition:Using the same words or phrases over
Stanza: a group of lines within a poem, set off from others
Climax
Resolution
Climax: the most exciting part of the story, when we learn the outcome
Resolution: the end of the story