Book Chat Terms
It's what the text is mostly about, including the main character(s), the setting, and the most important events in the text.
What is the main idea?
This physical attractiveness stereotype is a tendency to assume that people who are physically attractive also possess other socially desirable personality traits.
What is beauty bias?
When you appeal to the emotions of an audience.
What is pathos?
This is a statement you make that you intend to support through research.
What is an assertion or claim?
Science: It's what you can conclude if the same force is placed on two different objects, and one of the objects accelerates more than the other.
What is they have different mass?
It's the message or lesson that can be learned from a text.
What is the theme?
When people look at a group, they see what they’re expecting to see and hear what they’re expecting to hear.
What is confirmation bias?
When you use character or trust to appeal to an audience.
What is ethos?
This is the explanation of your evidence to prove your assertion or claim.
What is reasoning?
English: These are the three things an introduction to an essay should include.
What are hook, background information, and a thesis statement?
They're the connections you can make to a text, including whether you relate directly to a text, not at all to a text, or some combination of the two.
What are Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors?
It is the tendency to warm up to and take on the views of people that are like us.
What is affinity bias?
When you use data, including statistics, numbers, graphs and charts to appeal to an audience.
What is logos?
This is the data or research you use to prove your assertion or claim.
What is evidence?
Social Studies: This branch is responsible for the creation of laws by the Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the legislative branch?
It's a specific part of the story that you felt was important to you in some way, whether it was character related, plot related, or caught your eye in terms of style or feeling.
What is a "Powerful Part"?
When people make decisions on the first piece of information that they hear. The person is so focused on one thing that they place far too much weight on that original factor.
What is anchoring bias?
"We've been in business since 1914" uses this kind of appeal.
What is ethos appeal?
"Labeling all 8th graders as behavior problems is a misrepresentation of the average 8th grader" is an example of this we used in this unit.
What is an assertion or claim?
Health: This is the number of compressions needed per cycle for CPR.
What is 30?
It's the way a word makes you feel, either positive or negative.
What is connotation?
Recognizing how bias affects OTHER people’s judgement, but not seeing how YOUR bias affects YOUR OWN judgment.
What is blindspot bias?
"We exist because of how much we care about you" uses this type of appeal.
What is pathos?
"At PFMS, only ten 8th graders (out of 275 total 8th grade students) have received referrals so far this year, or 4% of the 8th grade population" is an example of this from our unit.
What is evidence?
Art: This is the stage of clay right before it goes in the first kiln fire.
What is "bone-dry"?