Drama
The written text of a play that the actors speak onstage.
What is a script?
A lesson, usually found at the end of a fable.
What is a moral?
The reason an author writes something.
What is author's purpose?
Something you make when the text doesn't give you all the information. Otherwise known as an educated guess.
What is an inference?
A word or sentence in a text that proves what you are claiming.
What is text evidence?
Large chunks of a play, much like chapters in a book.
What are acts?
Tall tales, fables, myths, legends, fairy tales.
What is Traditional Children's Literature?
The person who gives background information and tells parts of the story while the actors speak their lines in a play.
What is the narrator?
Something you can you infer about this character's day: "Maya's boots were caked with mud, and her umbrella was dripping."
What is it is raining?
The writing strategy that includes restating the question, answering it, citing text evidence, and explaining how that evidence proves a point.
What is the RACE strategy?
A smaller section of a play. It changes when the setting changes or when time has gone by.
What is a scene?
The type of traditional children's literature that generally starts with "Once upon a time" and ends in "and they all lived happily ever after."
What are fairy tales?
Language in a script or story that helps the reader create vivid mental images. Examples are simile, metaphor, and personification.
What is figurative language?
The type of character conflict that happens when a character wants something but also doesn't want that same thing.
What is character vs self conflict?
Two words in a text that tell the reader that the text structure of the passage is "compare and contrast."
What are: both, same, similar, different, compared to? (Must have one for compare and one for contrast.)
In a script, these are written in italics and have (parentheses) around them. They tell the actors what to do onstage.
What are stage directions?
The practice of memorizing stories that are then spoken, not written, and handed down from generation to generation.
What is Oral Tradition?
More than half. Most.
What is a majority?
One thing that a character can lose from its community if that character is selfish and greedy.
What is respect?
The marks that a writer puts around words that are cited as evidence from a text.
What are quotation marks?
In a script, the names of the characters listed right before their lines.
Example= Ant: Get to work, Grasshopper!
What are character tags?
A type of traditional children's literature that is based on a real person, includes a LOT of hyperbole, and has a character that is "bigger than life."
What is a tall tale?
The adjective to describe a person who feels sorry for someone else and tries to do something to help. (Ex.: Gloria lost her lunch money. Janie walked with her to the cafeteria and asked if they could give Gloria a free lunch. Janie is an ____________ friend.)
What is empathetic?
Character vs character; character vs nature; character vs self; character vs society; character vs technology
What are character conflicts?
On a paired passage test, the written response that must include two or more pieces of text evidence (one comparing the passages and one contrasting them). Ex.: IRACERACEC
What is an Extended Constructed Response (ECR)?