Vocabulary
Misc.
Name that Strategy
Embedded Assessments
Journey of a Hero
100
The main character of the story.
What is a protagonist?
100
The day we learned about Human Trafficking around the world and in our own backyard.
What is February 21st?
100
Named after a really smart guy who liked to talk, this is where we ask different level questions and sit in a circle.
What is a socratic seminar?
100
The essay we wrote about a hero we made up. Tells a story.
What is a narrative?
100
This is the first step in the Hero's Journey.
What is call to action/adventure?
200
The intended readers or viewers of a specific type of text or performance.
What is the audience?
200
The Africa-American slave turned politician we compared with Abe Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This strategy references something that floats on water. Tell me it's four parts.
What is Role, Audience, Format and Topic?
200
This essays explains something.
What is expository?
200
The three major stages of the Hero's Journey.
What are the departure, initiation and return?
300
A character, symbol, story pattern that is a common element of the human experience.
What is an archetype?
300
The two major generals in the Civil War.
Who is Lee and Grant?
300
This kind of triangle diagram allows you to follow the story and identify important events.
What is a plot diagram?
300
You pick two, then write.
What is compare and contrast?
300
This is the major goal of the hero.
What is the boon?
400
The three types of questions and an example for each.
What is literal, interpretive and universal?
400
Define a theme.
What is a statement that says something about human nature from a story/movie or performance?
400
This strategy can be identified through comedy, it has five parts and was a famous dance in the 50's...I think?
What is the TWIST strategy?
400
You only have one class period for this essay.
What is a timed write?
400
Walter to Bruce Wayne. The Giver to Jonas.
What is unconditional love?
500
The four types of essays we have written this year.
What are argumentative, expository, narrative, compare and contrast?
500
Ms. Ernster's favorite Starbucks drink.
What is a grande 2 pump white mocha americano splash of cream?
500
How we argue. 3 ways.
What is pathos, logos and ethos?
500
A paragraph about what something is not.
What is negation?
500
Explain how the Hero's Journey is important and applicable to you.
What is it shows that we can have heroic qualities/adventures in our own life, it connects us to literature, movies and history?
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