Read to Understand
Plot Mountain
Characters
Supporting Evidence
Random
100

What is a reader’s question or comment about a text written directly on the text?

A. Annotation

B. Inference

C. Respond

D. Track

A. Annotation


100

What is the fourth step of Plot Mountain called?

Falling Action

100

What is an individual in a literary work whose thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions move the action of the plot forward?

Hint: starts with a "c"

Character

100

To think deeply or carefully, sometimes about the past:

a. reflect

b. collaborative conversation

c. text dependent response 

d. deflect

a. reflect

100

Finish the lyric:

Oh say can you ________ by the dawn's early light. 

See
200

What is an idea formed by combining textual evidence and one’s own reasoning and background knowledge?

A. Annotation

B. Inference

C. Respond

D. Track

B. Inference


200

True or false, the climax is always in the middle of the story. 

False

200

A conversation between characters is called what?

Hint: has three syllables 


dialogue

200

A brief, organized written composition that answers a prompt:

a. definition

b. context clue

c. short constructed response

d. Joe Mama

c. short constructed response

200

In his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, this civil rights leader envisioned a future of equality and justice. 

Who am I?

Martin Luther King Jr.?

300

When you trace the development of events or ideas within a text it is called what?

A. Annotation

B. Inference

C. Respond

D. Track

D. Track

300

A struggle between opposing forces that creates tension and drives the story forward is what?

Hint: it starts with a "c"

Conflict

300

The character whose goals work against the protagonist is what?

Antagonist

300

You do this when you restate an entire passage from a text in your own words.


Paraphrase
300

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, this pioneering female scientist’s research laid the foundation for modern atomic theory.

a. Chien-Shiung Wu 

b. Beyonce 

c. Barbara McClintock 

d. Marie Curie

d. Marie Curie

400

When Mrs. Giles asks you to respond you should say something in return. 

True or False

True

400

What is another word for the conclusion of the story according to Plot Mountain?

Resolution

400

the main character—the one the story revolves around and who usually has a problem to solve called the __________.

Protagonist

400

when you _______________ you determine something not stated directly by using reasoning and evidence from the text.


Infer

400

What is it called when a word is spelled the same forward and backwards?

a. allegory

b. palindrome

c. anagram

d. chiasmus

b. palindrome 


500

What is the act of making a judgment or decision about something?

Hint: Starts with an "e"

Evaluation

500
When considering the introduction step of Plot Mountain, which option does not belong?


a. Characters

b. Struggle

c. Setting

d. all of them belong 

b. Struggle

500

An aspect of a person or character's behavior and attitude that make up that character’s personality is called a personality ___________.

Trait

500

Details from the text that a reader can use to support his or her ideas and opinions about the text is called ___________ __________. 

Textual Evidence

500
N.A.S.A., F.F.A. and F. B. I. are examples of what type of a/an _____________.

acronym

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