Theme
Theme is a sentence not this.
What is a word?
This is the first step in identifying the main idea of a text.
What is read the whole text?
The main argument of a paper.
What is a claim?
This type of text structure requires the reader to think about time.
What is chronological?
The specific details of a story and events that happen in that story.
What is plot?
The definition of theme is this.
What is a life lesson or moral?
The placement of these sentences will help the reader identify the main idea.
What are the first and last sentences?
A good claim is this. It makes a focused argument (MTV’s popularity is waning because it no longer plays music videos) rather than a general one (MTV stinks).
What is specific?
This type of text structure requires the reader to think about how one event effects another event.
What is cause and effect?
The character is attempting to solve their conflict.
What is rising action?
Themes are not explicit, they are this.
What is implied?
A young boy becomes king after his uncle kills his father.
What is the Lion King?
In an argument paper, you are not informing the reader, but you are trying to do this.
What is convince the reader?
This type of text structure tells how two things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Generally, the beginning of the story where the characters, setting, background information, and conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
A theme can be applied to many stories, not just the one that the reader is reading at that time. Name one theme that was in Rules that could be applied to middle school.
What is don't try to change yourself to please others or true friends accept you as you are?
Knowing prefixes, suffixes, and root words help to identify the meaning of a new word. Name one other way that a person can figure out the meaning of a new word without a dictionary.
What is use context clues or use background knowledge?
A good argument will have this to make it believable.
What is support?
This type of text structure might seem similar to cause and effect, but it always suggests a way to fix something.
What is problem and solution?
The character deals with life after facing their problem.
What is falling action?
The theme of the movie Inside Out that can be applied to middle school is this.
What is "we all have emotions that need to be recognized or else our lives become a mess"?
How an author creates a conclusion sentence.
What is look at the first sentence and think about the main idea of the paragraph?
An argument can use ethos (credibility of the author), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic). One example of logos would be to use data collected from a large group. Give another name for this data.
What are statistics?
A recipe might be an example of this kind of text structure.
What is sequence or order?
The character comes face to face with their problem. (This is where the problem is solved.)
What is the climax or turning point?