Vocabulary
What does hefty mean?
Big and strong
In a paragraph, where would you find a topic sentence?
In Fear of Flying, how does Dougal make it down south?
An airplane!
What does generate mean?
To produce
What's the last paragraph in an essay called?
The conclusion
What is the last section of a plot diagram called? This is the end of the story, after the climax.
Resolution
What does superb mean?
Excellent
When you make your reader want to keep reading, usually at the beginning of your essay...
Hook statement
Frederick Douglass -- Tell me anything you remember or know about him.
He was a slave, he fought back, he learned to read and write, he became a successful speaker, he wrote an autobiography, he escaped up north, he got married, etc.
What does accumulate mean?
Pile up
What's the statement at the start of your essay that tells your reader the main idea of the whole essay?
Thesis
Chicago artist Hebru Brantley: How did his mom encourage him?
By hanging his coloring book pages / art on the wall!
What does precede mean?
Go before
What did the student writer, in the Abby Sunderland essay, do in paragraph 5 of her essay that was so important?
Acknowledged the other side of the argument
Tell me about one character and how they change or grow in any of the stories we have read or watched so far.
too many