Narrative Writing
The A in IADD.
What is action?
When you go back and read a part of the text again to help you understand.
What is rereading?
This is the point that you are trying to make in your essay.
What is claim?
Text evidence plus background knowledge equal this.
What is an inference?
The other language that Ms. Slavin speaks.
What is Arabic?
The I in IADD.
What is inner thinking?
The reasons a character does something in a story.
What are character motivations?
The part of the essay that grabs your reader's attention and makes them want to read your essay.
What is the hook?
Make an Inference about Jade: Jade is smiling as she looks at her cake glowing with candles and all of her wrapped presents.
What is Jade is happy because it is her birthday?
This teacher attended Northeastern University.
Who is Ms. Ramos?
When someone is speaking in a story, you must use these.
What are quotation marks?
How the text relates to your life, another book, or the world.
What is making connections?
These are the sentences in your body paragraphs that let the reader know what your paragraph is most about.
What are topic sentences?
Troy stuttered, blushed and shook as he addressed the crowd." What can you infer about Troy from this statement?
What is that Troy is nervous about speaking in public?
The names of Mrs. Rosado twins.
Who are Luca and Quinn?
The two D's in IADD?
What are dialogue and description/details?
What are the four ways that a reader can interpret or find out information about a character. Either through the characters: A__________ T__________ D__________ I___________
What are actions, thoughts, dialogue, and interactions?
The part of an essay where you leave the reading with a lasting thought or final idea.
What is the conclusion?
Using clues in the story and what you already know to tell what might happen next.
What is predicting?
What the F&T stands for on our school logo.
What are Finance and Technology?
When you tell a story from a narrator's point of view.
What is third person perspective?
To tell in your own words what the story is mostly about.
What is summarize?
This is the part of the essay where you quote or paraphrase someone else's words or ideas in order to support your thinking.
What is evidence?
The sun was low in the sky. Kay's body ached. Blisters had formed on her hands. She set the rake down on the big pile of leaves and headed for home. What can you infer from this passage?
What is that Kay had worked a long time that day? (Answers may vary).
Six Flags, Washington DC, Prom.
What are activities that you get to do as your ending 8th grade?