Citing Text Evidence
When you copy word-for-word what the text says, and put it in your writing, what punctuation marks should you put around those words?
What are quotation marks?
The purpose of an informative essay is to ______
What is inform the reader about a topic?
Complete Sentence? Or Fragment?
Because I woke up early.
What is fragment?
True or False:In fiction writing, the characters and information are all real.
What is false?
The Earth has _____ over the years. It has broken into smaller land masses.
What is evolved?
When you copy word-for-word what the text says and surround the words with quotation marks, it is called using a ____ ____.
What is a direct quote?
An informative essay is organized into the following parts:
What is
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Complete Sentence? or Run-on?
I would have gone to the game I was sick.
What is run-on?
This refers to the sequence of events in a fiction story/ how a fiction story is organized
what is plot?
When you team up with someone, you form an ____.
What is alliance?
When you use a direct quote in your writing, you must always do this either before or after.
what is give credit to the source or cite your source
This is the sentence at the bottom of your introduction paragraph that states the topic of your entire essay.
What is the thesis?
What type of sentence puts two independent clauses (or groups of words that could be their own sentences) together using a comma and a conjunction?
What is a compound sentence?
This refers to the main problem in a story
What is the conflict?
Whoever invented silverware came up with an _____ solution to humans having to eat with their hands.
What is ingenious?
in this in-text citation, which punctuation mark is out of place?:
The text says,"_______".(3)
What is the period?
How should you organize the body paragraphs of an informative essay?
What is Assertion, evidence, reasoning, and opinion?
What is missing from the following sentence?
I would have gone to bed but I drank too much coffee.
What is the comma?
The main character in a story is known as the ____
protagonist
If you can run a ten-minute mile Week 1, a 20-minute mile Week 2, and a 9 minute mile Week 3, you are showing _________.
What is inconsistency?
This acronym is used to describe how we cite textual evidence in paragraph-form. We use it a lot in Mrs. Martin's class.
What is AERO?
Name one type of hook/general statement that you can use to get the readers attention in the first part of your essay.
What is statistic, anecdote (story), background information, or quote?
What FIVE things must a complete sentence have?
What is
1. capital letter
2. end punctuation
3. Subject (noun)
4. Verb
5. A complete idea
Authors can choose to write in 1st, second, or 3rd person ________.
What is point of view?
If you are naturally good at math, it could be said that you have an ______ for it.
What is aptitude