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What is the first thing you need to do before you start a test?
Brain dump all genres, learning strategies, and writing tips/reminders.
What is the authors purpose for informational text?
Inform
What is the authors purpose for poetry?
To inform OR entertain
What graphic organizer can readers use to organize the events of the story?
Plot map
What is a thesis?
Introduction of the essay/ explains what the essay is going to be about.
For revision and edit passages, do you need to read the passage? Why?
No, because you are just fixing the mistakes. Go straight to the questions to read the line that needs to be fixed.
What is the first thing you do when you have an informational passage?
THIEVES
How do you annotate poetry?
Per stanza
What is theme?
Message or lesson of the story.
What strategy would you use to summarize fiction?
Plot Map
Somebody Wanted But So Then
BME
What is another name for text structures?
Organizational Patterns
When do you annotate when you have an informational passage?
Every 1st sentence when doing THIEVES.
Similie
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Onamatopeia
Alliteration
Personification
What is the organizational pattern for fiction?
Sequential/ Chronological
What would you use to check your writing?
Arms/Cups
What are the 5 types of text structures?
Cause and Effect
Sequential/Chronological
Descriptive
Compare/Contrast
Problem/Solution
Part A) What is a topic sentence?
Part B) What is the purpose of a topic sentence?
Part B) Tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph is going to be about.
What is imagery?
When you are able to picture what is going on in your mind.
Explain character development.
How the character changes throughout the story
Name 2 differences between an SCR and an ECR.
Body paragraphs: SCR-1 ECR-3
What is Ms. Beasley's Hogwarts house?
Ravenclaw
What are 4 synonyms that mean what the text is mostly about?
main idea
controlling idea
central idea
thesis
Part A) What is an inference?
Part B)What two things do you need to make an inference?
Part B) Background knowledge + Text clues
What are the 2 types of conflict a character can experience in fiction?
Internal and External conflict.
How can you tell when you are supposed to write a SCR or an ECR.
SCR has limited characters
ECR will say to write an organized essay with bullet points to remind the writer about what is graded.