8th Grade ELA
Define a 5 - 7 sentence summary with no opinions that only tell the most important details?
What is an objective summary?
Words that mean the same as another are called
What is synonym?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence, also can be referred to "reading between the lines"
What is an inference?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
As RAMS we are.....
What is Respectful, Accountable, Motivated, and Safe?
Author of Long Way Down
Who is Jason Reynolds?
The students were __________ by Mrs. Dean's confusing directions. They had no idea what to do.
Perplexed Audacity Juxtaposed
What is perplexed?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What are context clues?
This describes or adds additional information to a noun
What is adjective?
Where you can find what we are doing in class each day, along with today's date
What is the whiteboard?
Name the three points of view
What is First Person, Second Person, and Third Person?
Type of essay that is trying to convince the reader about a certain side of an issue using evidence.
What is argumentative?
Definitions for MOOD and TONE
What is:
Mood is how the reader feels
Tone is the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
The kind of verb that is used with another verb in a verb phrase
What is a helping verb?
The four kinds of fine arts classes at Ramsey
What are Band, Choir, Art, and Orchestra?
Two types of conflict in a story
What is internal and external?
Mr. Stocking had the ________ to assign homework the night before the ATLAS test when he subbed for Mrs. Dean's class.
Perplex Audacity Juxtapose
What is audacity?
The type of essay where you tell a story about a personal experience and is narrated by the author
What is a narrative essay?
This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about time, place, or location.
What is a preposition?
The amount of snow days we had to actually make up this school year
What is two?
Name 4 novels or short stories we have read this school year.
The Crossover, Refugee, The Monkey's Paw, That was Then This is Now, An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Thank You Ma'am, Anne Frank play, Flowers for Algernon, Long Way Down (any four)
"I am berry proud of you for passing 8th grade" is an example of a _____.
What is a pun?
Three parts of a introductory paragraph
What is Hook, Background Information, and Thesis Statement?
Identify at least FOUR parts of speech in this sentence:
Ms. Hatwig is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is flawless.
Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is flawless.
nouns- Ms. Hatwig, today, makeup
pronoun - her
verbs - is (twice), dressed
adverb - fabulously
adj - flawless
conjunction- and
The top scoring student player in the Faculty vs. Students basketball game last week
Who is Josh Beck?