Story Elements
The people or animals that are important to the story
What are characters?
An action word
What is a verb?
writer's imagination but true to life in past history
What is Historical Fiction?
A system in which people are bought and sold as if they were property
What is slavery?
Set up strong states with a weak central government
The Articles of Confederation?
The time and place of events
What is setting?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
Provides ideas, facts, principles related to physical, biological, or social world
What is Non-Fiction; Informational Text?
When people act together and refuse to use or buy something
What is to boycott?
Prices went up while money lost value
What is inflation?
The order of events in a story; usually revolves around a conflict or challenge
What is plot?
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
Real life of an individual written by another author
What is a biography?
The crime of fighting against one’s own country
What is treason?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
What are three branches of government?
The central idea of a story; reveals life lesson; message
What is theme?
Words that an author would use to show imagery; sensory details
What are adjectives?
Imagined, not real; to entertain the reader
What is Fiction?
Where Washington lost over 25,000 men to disease, hunger and cold
What is Valley Forge?
The expressed main goal of the Constitution
What is the Preamble of the Constitution?
The reason for writing a story
What is Author's Purpose?
Words that replace nouns: I, we, she, they, you...
What is a pronoun?
real life written by the same author
What is autobiography?
This officially ended the war
What is the The Treaty of Paris?
Each branches way of limiting the powers of the other branches
What is checks and balances?