Realistic Fiction
What is a strategy you can use to summarize the plot of a story?
Somebody wanted but so then.
What do we call it when only one person speaks at a time?
"One Mic"
Hook Background Claim
What are central ideas?
sums up the major information the authors are teaching
What does the word controversial mean?
Controversy is a topic people have strong opinions about
Name a Writer's technique.
Flashback/flash forward, multiple plot lines, inner thinking, dialogue, revealing actions, multiple points of view, 1st person narrator, reader knows more than character, description, metaphor, tone, symbolism
True or false you need a college degree to approach Ms. Kommit's desk
true
Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
what is a social issue?
What is another word for a contention?
A reason why your claim is true.
provide background information, introduce characters, show character motivation, stir empathy, create the setting, build a mood, set up the problem, raise the stakes, build suspense, get readers predicting, support the theme, show the resolution
When you borrow a book from the classroom library you must...
sign it out and return it in the return basket.
What was the name of the short story you read for realistic fiction book clubs?
Super Human, The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn, How I learned to Cook... etc.
who was Zurara?
The worlds first racist. First person to write and document why Africans needed slavery to be saved.
What is a strategy for writing a hook?
Describe a setting related to your topic or share an interesting fact
What is character perspective?
What the character's beliefs are and how they see the world.
For class I need to bring...
a pencil, notebook, and an independent reading book
What is theme?
usually advice the author gives about how you might live your life differently or about how life works
____________ ___________ antiracist __________
What is a counterclaim?
The counterclaim is what the opposing side may argue.
Name a point of view.
1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, hybrid
What do you we do when we get to class?
Start the warm up written on the board.
The character is speaking out loud in a story.
dialogue
Name an Antiracist group from history
The Mennonites
What is included in background information?
Historical Significance, background information, current media coverage