Key Details/ Craft & Structure
One to two words that explain the subject being discussed.
What is topic.
The main character struggles against some other force. This type is what drives each and every story. Without it, the story would have no point or purpose.
What is conflict?
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
Is an idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence and reasoning. An educated guess.
What is inference?
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
What is simile.
Being a clown isn't all fun and games. Rodeo clowns expose themselves to great danger every time they perform. When cowboys dismount or bulls buck them off, rodeo clowns jump in front of the bulls and motion wildly to get their attention. In this way rodeo clowns provide an alternate target, and in doing so protect the rider. Of course, this is a very dangerous thing to do. So you see, sometimes clowning around can be serious business.
What is Rodeo clowns protect cowboys by putting themselves in danger.
Is a type of Opinion Writing
Think
Feel
Believe
To PERSUADE is to CONVINCE SOMEONE
BELIEVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
What is persuasive writing?
What is wrong with this sentence?
april is my favorite month
What is a capitalize April and period.
If first person is someone telling you his or her story, and second person is you being told how you should do something, then third person is more like a camera recording events.
What is point of view?
My brother was boiling mad.
What is metaphor?
A Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated.
The central point of a piece of writing.
What is main idea.
Fact or Opinion
Oranges contain both calcium and vitamin C.
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction.
The beginning of the story, where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition.
The student was given ‘excellent’ on getting zero in the exam.
What is irony?
Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
Sometime in December of 1891, Dr. James Naismith was teaching gym at the YMCA College in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was raining, and Dr. Naismith was trying to keep his students active. He wanted them playing a vigorous game that would keep them moving. He rejected a few ideas that were too rough. Then Naismith had his breakthrough. He wrote out the rules for a game with peach baskets fixed to ten-foot elevated tracks. Naismith's students played against one another, passing the ball around and shooting it into the peach baskets. Dribbling wasn't a part of the original game. Also it took a while to realize that the game would run more smoothly if the bottoms of the baskets were removed. But this game grew to be one of the most popular sports in America today. Can you guess which one?
What is the invention of basketball?
Eating fast food isn’t bad if you only eat it once a week.
What is opinion?
Capital letters are used not just at the beginning of sentences and for people's names. They are also used for any words that are the names by which things are called. They include people, countries, states, cities, towns, and streets. They also include names of pets and names of companies. Holidays, months, and days of the week.
What is proper nouns?
CLAIMS
COUNTERCLAIM
REASONS
EVIDENCE
What is argumentative writing?
I am trying to solve a million issues these days.
What is hyperbole?
Hyperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea.
What is a supporting detail?
WOULD THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK BE CATEGORIZED AS A BIOGRAPHY OR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY? "MY LIFE AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
What is autobiography?
Biography is written by a person that studied a lot about another and a autobiography is written by himself/herself.
Determine which point of view.
You are a mountain climber. Three years ago you spent the summer at a climbing school in the mountains of Colorado. Your instructors said that you had natural skills as a climber. You made rapid progress and by the end of the summer you were leading difficult rock and ice climbs.
What is a second person point of view?
Stories that are suspenseful are exciting to read. ____________ is one way writers add suspense to a story. It is a hint that a writer provides to suggest that future events will take place in a story. It makes readers eager to find out what happens, creating suspense as the story unfolds.
What is foreshadowing.
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification.