Writer's Notebook
The Outsiders
IR
Grammar
Short Stories
100

We use this tool to collect and explore writing ideas. 

What is a Writer's Notebook?

100

This character narrates the story.

Who is Ponyboy Curtis?

100

This is what "IR" stands for.

What is independent reading?

100

They can be common or proper, abstract or concrete.

What are nouns?

100

This character brings down Monk's reign of terror by shoving him in her locker.

Who is Priscilla?

200

When you describe the world around you in your writing, you use these kinds of details based on what you observe by seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting.

What are sensory descriptions?

200

This city where the story takes place has also been in the news recently.

What is Tulsa?

200

This is a reader's ability to read independently for long periods of time without being distracted or losing focus.

What is reading stamina?

200

This is the step in the writing process in which you look for and correct errors in grammar.

What is editing?

200

This is the part of the plot that sets the story in motion.

What is the conflict?

300

You do this when you write down everything you know about a topic, or you begin to tell a story.

What is writing long?

300

Dally takes Ponyboy and Johnny to this restaurant chain when he visits them in hiding; you can go to nearby New Milford or Emerson to check one out, but today it sells only ice cream. 

What is Dairy Queen?

300

This is the list of books you read and finished or abandoned this school year.

What is your Student Reading Record?

300

Some examples are: Whoa! Meh! and Yeet!

What are interjections?

300

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator compares the old man's eye to this bird.

What is a vulture?

400

This is a writing game we played in which you were given a conflict, a character, and a setting, and you used each to write a narrative.

What is The Story Machine?

400

This event in the story causes Dally to fall apart.

What is Johnny's death?

400

This relates to what genres and authors of books you like, as well as the subjects you like to read about.

What is your reading identity?

400

You need to use this punctuation to form a possessive noun or a contraction.

What is an apostrophe?

400

This is the name of the Native American tribe in "Ta-Na-E-Ka."

Who are the Kaw?

500

We read excerpts from a book about the Writer's Notebook written by this author.

Who is Ralph Fletcher?

500

The novel was first published in this year.

What is 1967?

500

In these Google Slides you kept a Virtual Bookshelf and logs.

What is your Digital Reading Notebook?

500
You need to insert this punctuation mark after the tag in this line of dialogue: Mr. Fabbo announced "Homework has been canceled from today until the end of the school year!"

What is a comma?

500

This author and poet said that a short story should be read in one sitting.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

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