The way a character changes throughout the story.
What is character development?
Events start to get interesting.
What is rising action?
Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
What is fiction?
The setting of "All Summer in a Day" by ray Bradbury.
Reading Strategy: guessing what will happen next.
What is predicting?
What is Point of View?
How everything ends up.
What is resolution?
Prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
What is nonfiction?
Who Rikki-Tikki was fighting.
What are Nag and Nagina?
Reading Strategy: Thinking about how you relate to a story.
What is making connections.
The when and where of the story.
What is setting?
Events start to wrap up.
What is falling action?
Writing that uses rhythms and is organized in lines and groups of lines called stanzas.
What is poetry?
The resolution of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
What is: Rikki-Tikki is king of the garden.
The author's attitude toward the story.
What is tone?
The message of the story; a universal idea.
What is theme?
The most exciting (and last exciting) point in a story.
What is the climax?
A fictional story with a fully developed theme, but it is significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
What is a short story?
The main conflict in "All Summer in a Day."
What is: the other children being cruel to Margot-- because she had seen the sun before and they never had.
How the reader feels about a story.
What is mood?
A struggle between the character and another force.
What is conflict?
Introduces the characters and the setting.
Exposition
What is the narrative poem we read together?
What is "The Day the Saucers Came"?
The theme in One Friday Morning.
What is: we should all fight for justice and equality.
Reading Strategy: Using background knowledge plus knowledge from the story to come to a conclusion.
What is making inferences?