Q1 English
The gift the boy brings to the lunchroom in the story "Red Roses"
What is red roses?
Total number of signposts we've covered this year
What is 6?
The first and last paragraphs in a formal essay
What are the introduction and conclusion?
8th grade teacher who is newest to Mickle
Who is Mr. Osborn or Mrs. Petersen?
Words or phrases that compare one thing to another using like or and
What is a simile?
The first summative project for Q1
What is a Personal Narrative Essay/This I Believe Essay/Personal Narrative?
Signpost that notices when a character gives thoughtful & helpful advice to another character
What is Words of the Wiser
parts of the essay that show what one character said to another or the words a character is thinking
What is dialogue?
New Mickle Principal
Who is Mrs. Lind?
words that imitate a sound
What is onomatopoeia?
A major event in a person's life that changes us or teaches us an important lesson
What is a milestone?
Signpost that notices when a character does something that is inconsistent or unpredictable
What is Contrast/Contradiction?
the main idea or lesson in an essay
What is theme?
New Mickle 8th grade counselor
Mrs. Majid
I will die if I have to sit by that kid.
What is hyperbole?
The main theme or idea around which all projects for the quarter revolve
What is the Essential Question?
Dory the fish's "Just keep swimming." (from Finding Nemo)
What is "Again and Again?"
a piece of writing that follows specific guidelines and has set expectations about what it should look and sound like
What is formal writing?
Number of cats Mrs. Wieting has
What is 5?
Jonah is a bear if he wakes up early.
What is a metaphor?
Q1 Essential Question
What are milestones on the path to growing up?
When the narrator in "Red Roses" realizes that she can make the choice to be kind or not
What is a tough question OR an AHA moment?
nonfiction essay told in first person point of view
personal narrative
Libby's breed
What is mixed breed?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
The italicized line in the poem
What is allusion?