Biographies
Social Issues
Persuasive Writing
Fairy Tale Writing
American Revolution
100
This is the word used to describe a person in a biography.
Subject
100
This is a major problem for a large group of people.
Social Issue
100
This is the purpose of persuasive writing.
To convince a reader to agree with a statement or prompt
100
This is the big problem in the story that the characters have to face.
Conflict
100
These were the two biggest groups of people fighting the Revolutionary War in the colonies.
Colonists and the British
200
These are descriptive words or characteristics about a person in a biography.
Traits
200
This is an issue when people do not have enough money or resources to live comfortably.
Poverty
200
This is the sentence in the introduction that explains what your opinion is about a specific prompt.
Thesis
200
This introduces characters and settings, ties scenes together, and wraps up the story at the end.
Narration
200
I am the person who rode all night long to warn people that the British soldiers were coming.
Paul Revere
300
I was a civil rights activist. I fought to make sure that black people and white people had equal rights and could use the same facilities.
Rosa Parks (Alt. Martin Luther King Jr.)
300
This is an issue for communities when entire forests are destroyed.
Deforestation
300
This is the difference between a reason and a detail.
A reason is a big statement paragraph that describes your opinion. A detail is a sentence that gives a more specific example of your reason.
300
These are 3 things you can change when adapting a fairy tale.
Characters, events, or motivations
300
This is the event when the colonists dumped hundreds of boxes of tea into the harbor to protest unfair taxes on their goods.
Boston Tea Party
400
I was an activist who fought to make sure that farm workers got fair wages and better treatment.
Cesar Chavez
400
This is a goal set up to help fix a problem caused by a social issue.
Action Plan
400
These are the 2 sentences that come before the thesis in an introductory paragraph.
1. Hook - The interesting sentence that grabs the reader's attention. 2. Description - The sentence that describes the person, place, thing, or idea that the paper is about.
400
This phrase means words that give great detail in a scene. Give 2 examples.
Figurative language 1. Exact/precise words 2. Describing words 3. Repetition 4. Comparisons 5. Using opposites to explain differences
400
This is the name of the person who lived in Britain and ruled the colonies overseas.
King George III
500
I was an inventor who moved to America to develop new ways to use alternating current technology and make electricity safer.
Nikola Tesla
500
This is when people are being treated unfairly based on something like age, race, gender, class, or religion.
Discrimination
500
These are the 3 types of evidence you can use for opinion writing. Describe them.
Factual evidence - Gives true information about a topic. Emotional evidence - Gives a personal example or descriptive language to make a reader feel a certain way. Trust evidence - Gives a personal story to make the reader trust that the writer is an expert in this area.
500
This is a phrase or sentence that is repeated multiple times to make the scene memorable or emphasize an action.
Refrain
500
These are the names of the two towns in Massachusetts where the first battles of the Revolutionary War occurred.
Lexington and Concord
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