Sensationalism
Realistic Fiction
Sentences
100

Sensationalism definition

What is a series of tactics used to keep audience attention in a world full of distractions and competing sources of information?

100

Definition of realistic fiction

What is a story that could plausibly happen in real life, with believable characters, settings, and events?


100

Phrase definition

What is a group of words without a subject and verb?

200

Sensationalist tactics

What is using eye-catching but inaccurate titles, emotionally charged words, strong stereotypes, cherry picked details that make things look worse, provocative imagery, trying to create fear, uncertainty and doubt, baiting controversy and conflict, creating a sense of us vs them, misuse of statistics, and quoting out of context?

200

The plot of Hoot

what is OWLS?

200

Clause definition

What is a group of words with a subject and verb?

300

Media Literacy definition

What is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication?

300

The 5 parts of a narrative

What is:

  1. Exposition (introduction)
  2. Rising Action
  3. Climax 
  4. Falling Action
  5. Resolution
300

Dependent clause definition 

Group of words with a subject and verb that cannot stand on its own

400

How to check to see if news is fake

What is check the source (and other sources), maintain a critical mindset, check the facts, check the comments, check your biases, check for satire, check the headline, and check the author?

400
How activism is used in Hoot

What is saving the owls?

400

The difference between a compound and complex sentence

What is: a compound sentence contains two independent clauses while a complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause?

500

How sensationalism started

what is yellow journalism and cheap access to news (the Sun)?

500

Types of conflict (7)

What is Person vs Self, Person vs Person, Person vs Nature, Person vs Fate, Person vs Society, Person vs the Unknown, and Person vs Machine?

500

7 coordinating conjunctions

What is:

  • F = for 
  • A = and
  • N = nor
  • B = but 
  • O = or
  • Y = yet
  • S = so
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