Rhetorical Appeals
A dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
The river was frozen.
What is the central idea of the text?
Animal snooping can determine life or death for some animals.
What are the titles above individual sections in a piece of text called?
subheadings
"Animal Snoops" is an example of informational text.
True or False
True
Define eavesdrop
to listen secretly to others' private conversations
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting?
The man’s son.
Define foil
If you foil someone, you stop that person from being successful at something.
"I foiled his plans"
What is text structure?
how a text's ideas are organized for readers, often arranged with headings.... subheadings.....
Informational text provides well known opinions.
True or False?
False
Explain chronological order
When something follows a logical sequence/ a timeline
Ex: First, Second, Third....
Ex: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
It can’t be seen, can’t be felt, can’t be heard, and can’t be smelled. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. What is it?
The dark.
"Animal Snoops," begins with an anecdote about:
A bird that causes house robbers to be caught due to remembering one of the robbers' names.
What is an anecdote?
short account of events, that both entertain readers and clarify key ideas.
Informational text NEEDS evidence from sources to back up what it is saying.
True or False
True
Define Stake.
something such as money, food, or life, that can be gained or lost.
"His life was at stake from the Hurricane."
What is at the end of the rainbow?
The letter W!
Name one of the predators mentioned in "Animal Snoops."
Snakes, white storks, crab spiders.....
What is the Author's Purpose of this text?
To entertain by using examples of spying animals.
Read this sentence.
Some plants send signals to bees and birds with their colors, patterns, and shapes.
What is the antecedent for the italicized pronoun?
A. plants
B. Signals
C. Bees
D. Birds
A. Plants
The author compares the length that echolocation from Sperm Whales can travel by:
comparing it to the length of Manhattan Island.
What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
Your name.
How does the Gunther dik dik use eavesdropping as protections against predators?
listening to the sound of warning from go-away birds when they spot an eagle, wild dog, or other predator
What are 4 different ways that paragraphs can be organized?
cause-effect, chronological order, problem- solution, compare-and-contrast, ideas and supporting details
What is the author's purpose in organizing the selection into sections?
A. To compare and contrast ways that animals eavesdrop
B. To focus on different reasons for specific animal behaviors
C. To explain the sequence of steps animals use to catch prey
D. To present an argument that animals that spy are more likely to survive
B. To focus on different reasons for specific animal behaviors
What is the essential question of the unit?
What can you learn from seeing the world through an animal's eyes?