Fiction
Non-Fiction
Short Response
Extended Response
Vocabulary
100
The problem in a story is also called...
What is conflict
100
What is the purpose of a topic sentence?
What is to identify the central idea of a paragraph or subheading
100
How many points is your short response answer worth?
What is 2
100
How many points is your extended response answer worth?
What is 4
100
Define the word theme
What is the lesson or message that the author wants you to learn by the end of a story
200
The time and place where a story takes place
What is setting
200
Name 3 different types of non-fiction texts
What is biography, newspaper, magazine, documentary
200
What is this question asking us to find? How does the setting relate to the theme?
What is how the time and place connects to the message of the story
200
Explain the mood/ tone the author creates in paragraph 7. Define mood or tone
What is feeling or emotion that the author creates through writing
200
Define point of view or perspective
shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation.
300
Give two examples of fiction works
What is short story, novel, historical fiction
300
Name 3 text features found in non-fiction texts
What is subheadings, captions, images, footnotes
300
What is the question asking us? What impact does the statement, "I feel like a genie on a flying carpet" have on story?
IMPACT= what does it mean/ what does it represent
300
What steps would you take to answer this question? Based on the entire passage, what is the meaning of the word “momentous” in line 18?
Go back to line 18 to read the word Identify the meaning in context Identify the meaning with the whole passage in mind
300

Write a sample simile and metaphor

Many possible responses
400
Name 3 text features that you might find in a fiction text
What is title, dialogue, pictures
400
The opposing side or opinion to your claim in an argument text
What is counterclaim
400
In order to get full 2 points on your short response questions you must follow what steps...
What is Restate, answer, cite 2 pieces of evidence, explain your evidence
400
What is this question asking you to identify? In “Brain Birds” and “A Soft Spot for Crows,” are the authors’ attitudes toward crows and ravens positive or negative? How do the authors convey their views? Use examples from both articles to support your response.
What is author's point of view or opinion
400

Define the words verbal irony and imagery

What is creating tension or a feeling of wanting to know more...

500
Label the 5 parts of a plot mountain
What is exposition, rising action (conflict), climax, falling action, resolution
500
Which one of these is most likely a central idea... a. United States has 5 percent of the world population, yet approximately 25 percent of its prisoners. b. Prisons have exploded with the "war on drugs": more than 500,000 people—nearly a quarter of all those incarcerated—are incarcerated as the result of a drug conviction. c. Mass incarceration effects individuals and families in negative ways both during and after incarceration. d. In 2009, the federal government held over 380,000 people in immigration custody.
What is C
500

Using this quote and information from Night, write a TLQC sentence. 

"Never shall I forget that smoke." Elie Wiesel, page 34.

For example, after witnessing children being burned alive, Eliezer thinks, "Never shall I forget that smoke" (Wiesel 34).

Other lead in options: after his first night in camp. Eliezer realizes. The trauma of the Holocaust makes Eliezer think. 

500

What are the 4 things that this question is asking you to include in your extended response? In the story, Saeng and her mother discuss hibiscus plants. What does the hibiscus plant represent to Saeng's? What does it represent to Saeng's mother? What thoughts and feelings do Saeng and her mother have about the hibiscus plant? Use details from the story to support your response

What is 1. What does the hibiscus plant represent to Saeng 2. What does the hibiscus plant represent to Saeng's mother 3. What thoughts and feelings do Saeng and her mother have about the hibiscus plant? 4. Use details to support my response

500
What is this question asking us to find within both passages? What message do you think the speaker in "Sunday Morning Early" and the narrator of "I wish I was a poet" are trying to convey?
What theme are the authors trying to prove or show
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