Textual Evidence
Word Choice & Tone
Mood
Theme & Central Idea
Characterization
100
When citing a text, this is where the period goes
What is after the end parenthesis
100
Definition of tone
What is the way the author feels about the topic, subject, work
100
Definition of mood
What is how the reader feels
100
Definition of theme
What is the moral, universal message, or "big picture" of the story
100
Definition of characterization
What is making an imaginary person seem lifelike
200
You must have this before your quote.
What is introduction
200
This is what you use to help identify tone (go beyond green words)
What is descriptions and dialogue
200
These are used to help identify mood (go beyond green words)
What is setting, atmosphere, characterization
200
Definition of central idea
What is the point of the passage without the details, 10 word or one sentence summary
200
The four ways to create or know about a character
What is appearance, thoughts and conversation, what others say about them, actions
300
Create an in-text citation for a quote from Speak, published in 1999, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The quote was on found on pages 14-15.
What is (Anderson, 1999, pp. 14-15)
300
Identify the words that portray the mysterious tone: I heard strange noises from the desolate forest.
What is strange, desolate
300
Identify the mood The room was filled with smiles; the sun sparkled in their eyes, which glistened with happiness.
What is happy, joy
300
Theme formula
What is green word + focus
300
Identify and define each type of character
What is Round - fully developed, a lot of personality Flat - little to no personality Dynamic - goes through a change Static - little to no change
400
Make an inference based on the evidence below "Our art room is blooming like a museum full of O'Keefes, van Goghs, and that French guy who painted flowers with tiny dots" (Anderson, 1999, p. 77).
What is the school has many artistic students or the art room is well decorated
400
I wanted to just set the table and be done with it, but my mother scrupulously arranged each napkin, dish, and utensil until they were in perfect alignment. The word scrupulously most likely means
What is carefully, thoroughly
400
Identify the mood The cold wine on a dark, stormy night made that day so much worse.
What is gloomy, depressed, hopeless
400
Identify the theme Mark always seemed unprepared and in a rush. Karen assumed he did not do well in school, until he graduated at the top of their class.
What is don't judge a book by its cover; things aren't always what they seem
400
Identify and define the three different points of view
What is first person - the story is told from the characters POV using words like "I, me, we, us" second person - the story or information is told to a person, uses "you" third person - told from an outside perspective, uses words like "he, she, they"
500
Identify what is wrong with the following citation. "'I should go to the party', Melissa thought to herself." (The Amazing Melissa, 2014, pp. 23).
What is there should not be a period inside the quotation marks and a single page number is only cited with "p."
500
Identify the tone of the passage: I hate Olivia. She always walks through the halls like she owns the place. She thinks that she's all that and she really is not.
What is bitter, irritated, frustrated
500
Identify the mood Mr. Freeman steps back, as if he has just seen something new in his own picture. He slices the canvas with my chisel, ruining it with a long ripping sound that makes the class gasp.
What is upset, shocked, surprised, confused
500
Identify a possible theme of Speak based on what we have read in 1st and 2nd Marking Period
What is I will decide an acceptable answer
500
Identify what you can learn about Melinda from the following By the time we eat dinner, the battle is roaring at a full pitch. Grades, blah, blah, blah, attitude, blah, blah, blah, help around the house, blah, blah, blah, not a kid anymore, blah, blah, blah.
What is she doesn't care about school, she doesn't respect her parents
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