Vocabulary
What is an inference?
An educated guess based off background knowledge and the text.
What is theme?
The lesson/message of the story.
What is a summary?
A shorter retelling of the story.
What is a central idea?
The most important message of the text that can be explicit or implied.
What is the formula to find the area of a circle?
A=πr2
What does it mean if a text needs to be objective?
There should be no opinions in the text.
What was a theme from 'the Substitute'?
A shy person can still do brave things.
Do what you can to help the people around you.
A summary should always include only one important event. True or false?
False. Should include three important events.
What do you use to prove your central idea?
Supporting details.
C=π x d
What is the meaning of the word 'sanctuary'?
Is there only one correct theme?
No.
Should a summary be longer than the story itself?
No; summaries are shorter retellings of the story.
No; it can be implied.
How do you find the area of a rectangle?
A=lxw
What is the meaning of the word 'homespun'?
Sewn/made at home.
A theme should be _________, meaning that it should lack opinions.
At most, a summary should be about how long.
3 - 5 sentences.
No; there can be more than one correct central idea.
What do you call half of the diameter?
The radius.
What is alliteration?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
First sounds of words matching.
What is the 'theme' of this school year so far?
I will check.
Name all seven important things that should be in a summary.
Main characters, setting, important events from the beginning, middle, and end, theme, and objectiveness (no opinion).
Write an example of a central idea from any text we've read this year as a full sentence.
I will check.
A swimming pool has a length of 23m and a width of 10m. Solve for area using the correct equation. Show your work for full points.
A=230m