All Summer in a Day
Poetry
Healer of the Water Monster
Annotation
Summary
100
The name of this character who misses the sun, but does not get to see it.
Who is Margot?
100
This image shows a popular device used by poets.
What is rhyme?
100
The mythology in Healer of the Water Monster is based on this group's traditional beliefs.
Who are the Navajo?
100
A note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram.
What is annotation?
100
A brief statement or account of the main points of something.
What is summary?
200
The name of this character, who convinces everyone to lock Margot in a closet.
Who is William?
200
When the first letter or sound of a word is repeated multiple times in a sentence. It is often used in tongue twisters.
What is alliteration?
200
This is the excuse Nathan uses to get away from his parents for the Summer.
What is his Science Fair Project?
200
Name two reasons why we focus on annotation.
1. Recording important information
2. Defining words we don't know
3. Writing questions for clarification
4. Making connections to other texts
200
These are the information that you want use for the focus of your summary.
What are the key points, main ideas, etc.?
300
The author used these types of literary devices to add lots of description and imagery to the story. (Choose one)
What are imagery, Similes, Metaphors, etc.?
300
This poetic device breaks a sentence or phrase into multiple lines.
What is enjambement?
300
Uncle Jet has this type of spirit attached to him which exacerbates his depression and paranoia.
What is an Ash Being?
300
The reader is using this technique to record their annotations.
What are symbols?
300
I should not put these in a summary because it can bias the reader.
What is my opinion?
400
This figurative language is used in the following quote:
"She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair."
What is simile?
400
The symbols are used to measure this part of the poem which has two names.
What is the meter or the rhythm?
400
Pond is suffering from radiation poisoning from this covered up historical event.
What is the largest Uranium spill in American history?
400
Name one thing from this poem that you would annotate and why.
What is "softly sings" because it demonstrates alliteration? (Example)
400
This is a word used to mean shortening and getting rid of unnecessary parts.
What is condensing?
500
This figurative language is used in the following quote:
"But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone."
What is metaphor?
500
This type of poem, often written by Shakespeare, is known for having fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
500
Darkness sees that Nathan will become this in the future.
What is a Medicine Man?
500
Show me a good annotation in your book.
What is your book?
500
Name two things that make this summary good and one thing that is missing.
"Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by a diver, and horrified Marlin must set out to find him. A blue reef fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) -- who has a really short memory -- joins Marlin and complicates the encounters with sharks, jellyfish, and a host of ocean dangers. Meanwhile, Nemo plots his escape from a dentist's fish tank."
What are
Good:
1. Main Ideas
2. Shortened
3. No Opinion
Bad:
1. Does not tell what it is summarizing.