INFERENCES
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What is Textual Evidence?
What is what the text says? The clues?
100
What is a narrator?
What is the person who conveys the story to the audience.
100
What is a Thesis Statement?
What is the main idea of a paper that has three main points?
100
In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different
What is Compare and Contrast
100
What is Mrs. Holt's favorite color?
What is blue.
200
What is the Inference Equation?
What is textual evidence + background knowledge = Inference
200
Define Main Idea
What is the main point the author is trying to make.
200
Define sensory words.
What are words that appeal to the senses.
200
In this essay, things are presented according to the order in which they happened (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
What is Time-Order or Chronological, or Sequence
200
Where Mrs. Holt is from.
What is Magazine.
300
Define Inference
An educated guess based on textual evidence and background knowledge.
300
Define: Character motivations
What is why a character does something
300
What are three compare and contrast keywords?
What is like, alike, same, resemble, too, etc. (compare) but, different, however, unlike, etc. (contrast)
300
In this part of an essay, you place the topic sentences
What is the body?
300
Mrs. Holt's husband's name?
What is Seth.
400
Inferences allow readers to understand deeper meaning. What is an example of deeper meaning?
What is the Main Idea, Author's Voice, Character Motives, etc.
400
Name 3 places a reader can look to find the main idea.
What is the title, first sentence, and last sentence.
400
Define Counterargument

What is a possible argument against your thesis or some aspect of your reasoning.

400
This part of the essay leaves the reader wanting to read more.
What is the hook.
400
Where Mrs. Holt went for Spring Break?
What is Texas: Waco, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas.
500
Make an Inference about Merab: Merab is smiling as she looks at her cake glowing with candles and all of her wrapped presents.
What is Merab is happy, because it is her birthday?
500
Define Imagery
What is visually descriptive or figurative language. (Language you can visualize.)
500
On the board, draw an outline for a basic 5 paragraph essay. Include the parts of an introduction, topic sentences, examples, and explanations.
I. Intro:

   A. Hook

   B.Thesis Statement

   C. Mini Outline

II. 1st Body Paragraph

    A. Topic sentence

        i. Example

           a. Explanation

        ii. Example

           a. Explanation

        iii. Example

           a. Explanation

Etc. 

500
Define: Thesis, Hook, and Topic Sentences

What is the sentence or two in your text that contains the focus of your essay and tells your reader what the essay is going to be about.

What is a sentence used to grab the reader's attention and make them want to continue reading.

What is a sentence that tells what the paragraph is going to be about.

500
Name all of my pets.
Who are Mila, Daisy, Roxy, Sage, and Tucker
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