8th Grade Writing
A story with a beginning, middle, and end that has literary elements.
What is a narrative?
words that mean the same as another are called
What is synonym?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
Verb ending in -ing, but acts like a noun
What is a gerund?
An essay with at least 5 paragraphs is used to inform the reader.
What is an informative or expository essay
Having just enough, but not too much.
What is sufficient?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What is context clues
This modifies a noun
What is adjective?
The gerund in the sentence
Swimming in the ocean has been Sharon’s passion since she was five years old.
What is swimming?
Five-paragraph essay including claim, reason, evidence, counter-claim, and rebuttal.
What is an argumentative essay?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
This may reveal character traits, setting, or events in the story
What is dialogue?
This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when
What is a preposition?
The gerund phrase in the sentence
Eating a slice of pie quickly is a recipe for disaster.
What is Eating a slice of pie quickly?
RACE strategy
Restate the question
Answer the question
Cite (relevant) evidence from the text
Explain how the evidence answers the question
Extremely bold or aggressive
What is audacity?
The purpose of figurative language
What is to connect something difficult to understand to something most people understand
A word that describes action or a state of being
What is a verb?
The function of the gerund
Sleeping through the night is difficult for me.
What is the subject?
Name 5 genres
answers vary
someone who is insane or mentally unstable
What is neurotic
Describe the three different types of leveled questions
Level 1 can be found in the text
Level 2 requires inference
Level 3 is thematic or beyond the text
Label the parts of speech in this sentence
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
nouns- Ms.Crook, today, makeup , her (pronoun)
verbs - is , is , dressed
adverb - fabulously
adj - beautiful
conjunction- and
The function of the gerund phrase in
His daughter enjoys fixing broken bicycles.
What is a direct object?