Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Person, place, thing
What is literal?
Real
Woods Runner
What is a hook?
Something that gets a reader excited about your essay.
What does perspective mean?
Point of view
What is a verb?
An action word
What is a simile?
Figurative language that uses like or as.
What book showed a kid trying to survive in the wilderness?
Hatchet
What do you need in your introductory paragraph to help the reader understand what your essay is about?
Background information.
What does massacre mean?
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun
Is this sentence figurative or literal?
The wind whispered to the grass.
Figurative
What book was about an errand boy talking to people about the tea tax?
Colonial Voices
What kind of essay is supposed to convince the reader of something?
Opinion essay
What does device mean?
a special tool invented to do a certain job
How many nouns are in this sentence?
The girl jumped over the fence.
2 (girl, fence)
What kind of figurative language is this?
I waited a million years for my mom to help me with my homework.
Hyperbole
What story was about kids on Venus who had never seen the sun?
All Summer in a Day
What does a body paragraph need to be complete?
A topic sentence, evidence, elaboration, and a concluding sentence.
What does resilience mean?
the ability to cope when things go wrong
What are the verbs in this sentence?
I walked over there to find my pencil.
walked, find
Write an example of a metaphor.
Examples:
Time is a thief.
The test was a piece of cake.
The classroom is a zoo.
Which book was written entirely in poems?
Love that Dog
What is a thesis?
Your main argument
What is the circulatory system?
the vessels that carry blood to and away from the heart