Characters
Identify the protagonist and antagonist in A Wrinkle in Time.
Who are Meg Murray and IT?
This story takes place in Boston between 1773 and 1775.
What is Johnny Tremain?
The name of the "thing" on planet Ixchel in A Wrinkle in Time.
What is the beast?
Without help from your binder, what's the difference between foreshadowing and flashback?
Foreshadowing gives hints or clues about things that will happen in the future verses a flashback which is a pause in the story for the author to share something that happened in the past?
Homework (Book and Chapters or pages read) due March 22, 2021
What is Johnny Tremain Chapters 1-2?
Jacqueline's Grandparents (both sets) in Brown Girl Dreaming.
Who are Hope and Grace Woodson and Gunnar and Georgiana Irby?
This book takes place in Calormen and Archland, which are just south of Narnia.
What is The Horse and His Boy?
Brown Girl Dreaming is written in this form of poetry.
What is Free Verse (Memoir)?
Without help from your binder, name the four types of text connections.
What are text to text, text to self, text to world, and text to media?
The first handout in your handout section.
What is the Figurative Language sheet?
Identify character traits for Samuel, Capt. Smith, Rev. Hunt, and Master Wingfield from the book Blood on the River. This is from homework that was assigned :)
Capt. Smith - honest, trustworthy, leader
Rev. Hunt - faithful, forgiving, wise
Master Wingfield - dishonest, selfish, untrustworthy
This story begins in Dorchester County in 1820.
What is Harriett Tubman: A Conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Identify the major conflict in Johnny Tremain.
What is character verses self? Johnny overcoming his arrogance and selfishness to develop into a humble young man.
Without looking in your notebook, name three types of figurative language.
What are...
simile, imagery, metaphor, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, diction, idioms, or onomatopoeia.
Name the rubric requirements for your Reading Response Entries.
What are...
Entry includes question and date.
Reflection question is answered completely.
Entry is legible with few punctuation, spelling, or grammar errors.
Entry stays on topic and makes sense.
Entry contains evidence from the text to support thinking.
Entry shows evidence of reflection about what you’re reading.
Name two antagonists from The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.Figg.
Who are Squinton Leach, The Nibbly's, Stink and Smelt?
This book begins in London, England and ends in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is Blood on the River?
The climax in Blood on the River.
Without help from your binder, what are the two main parts of a book review?
What are summary and review?
Homework (Book and Chapters or pages assigned) Due Sept. 28th
What are Brown Girl Dreaming and pages 244-320?
Using a text to text connection, give me two characters from different books that have similar character traits. You must include the name of the book in your answer.
Mrs. Whitfield determines if this answer is correct :)
Name three different settings for A Wrinkle in Time.
Where are Earth, Uriel, Camazotz, Ixchel, and the Happy Medium Planet?
Name one of the themes in Brown Girl Dreaming and give supporting evidence.
Mrs. Whitfield will determine answer, but possible answers are family/relationships, civil rights/racism, or courage.
Without using your binder, name two of the five parts of a plot structure, also known as a story mountain.
What are exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
Name the class expectations
What are...
1. Come to class on time. Use the bathroom before class begins.
2. Come to class with the novel we are reading, your binder, pencil, color pencils/crayons, scissors, and glue.
3. Be respectful of others, especially if someone speaking. Do not talk over each other or talk while I am speaking.
4. Pay attention in class and participate in class discussions.