Give me an example
This is a statement of fact.
Ms. Partington will give you a thumbs up or thumbs down.
A statement that can be proven is this.
What is a fact?
A statement that expresses a person's feelings.
What is an Opinion?
Details support the main idea as a list of events told in the order that they happened.
What is Chronological Order?
A list of topics in the book and what page they're on.
What is a table of contents?
These are two examples of Secondary Sources.
What are textbooks, edited works, histories, biographies, literary criticism?
This is writing that provides factual information– main purpose is to inform or to explain.
What is Informative Nonfiction?
This is a type of writing that tells about real people, places and events.
What is Nonfiction?
Describes or discusses an event/action that is caused by another event/action.
What is Cause and Effect?
Shows what something looks like and is taken with a camera.
What is a photograph?
These are two types of Primary Sources.
What are autobiograpies/memoirs, letters, diaries, minutes, photographs, artifacts, interviews, and sound or video recordings?
These sources convey direct, firsthand knowledge.
What is a primary source?
This kind of writing is like fiction, except the characters, setting and plot are real rather than imaginary. Its purpose is usually to entertain or express opinions or feelings.
What is Literary Nonfiction?
Organized to emphasize the similarities and/or differences between two or more items or topics.
What is Compare and Contrast?
Words around a photograph that describe what it is/ who is in it
What is a caption?
These are two examples of Literary Nonfiction.
What are autobiographies, biographies, memoir, and essays?
This kind of writing focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object.
What is a Memoir?
This is a source that was created later by someone who did not experience or participate in the events
What is a Secondary Source?
Details support the main idea as a list of only the most important data from a larger amount of material.
What is a Summary?
Tells what the following section will be about
What is a heading?
These are two types of Informative Nonfiction.
What are textbooks and news articles?
These are 3 characteristics of Memoir.
What are it maintains a first person point of view, it is limited to a particular phase, time period, place, or recurring behavior in order to develop the focus fully, and explains the significance of the relationship?
This is the type of Literary Nonfiction that the Long Walk to Freedom is. (Be Specific)
What is a memoir?
The organizational pattern of this example:
“Public schools should require students to wear uniforms because they
save parents money, de-emphasize fashion, and create school spirit.”
What is Cause and Effect?
A list of key concepts in ABC order, along with the page numbers where more info can be found.
What is an Index?