Story Elements
What is the setting of a story? The ____, the _____, and the ______ .
time, place, mood
What is an informative text?
A non-fiction text based on facts. These texts are meant to teach you about a specific topic.
What was the Civil Rights Movement, in a nutshell?
A time period in the United States of America where people fought for equal rights for African Americans.
The most magical time of the week is...
Free Write Tuesday!
What is the plot of a story?
The sequence of events.
Exposition, Rising Actions, Climax, Falling Actions, Resolution
What are two text features of informative texts? (Think: What gets included on the page/throughout the paragraphs?)
Title/Heading, Subtitles/Sub-Headings, Quotes, Illustrations and Captions,Chart/Graph, Timeline, Index, Glossary
When did the Civil Rights Movement happen?
In the 1950s & 1960s.
Once!
What is characterization?
The character's personality traits, values, motives, etc.
What is an example of an internal conflict? What is an example of an external conflict?
Answers may vary.
What are the two online databases that we used for our research?
Gale and WorldBook
Name at least three of the subtopics we researched for the Civil Rights Movement.
Jim Crow Laws, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education, Segregation, Civil Rights Acts (1960 & 1964), "Separate and Equal," Central High School/Little Rock Nine, Ruby Bridges, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Ku Klux Klan
What are the snacks allowed in the classroom?
None! (Unless Ms. Emily brings in cookies. Maybe she'll bring in cookies one day.)
What is first-person P.O.V.?
The character is telling the story.
What is 3D writing?
3D Writing is including evidence in your writing to help show what is happening (not just telling/summarizing). Some ways to build 3D writing into your story include: Describe the event (include what is happening around the character/sensory details), dialogue, describe the character's thoughts and feelings.
What is the fancy word for your Works Cited?
Bibliography
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
A case decided in 1954 in which the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.
How much are work habits, formatives, and summatives worth in the gradebook? You must answer each correctly.
WH: 1%
F: 29%
S: 70%
What is third-person P.O.V.?
The narrator is not a character in the story. They are able to either observe the main character (third-person limited) or they are able to observe all characters (third-person omniscient)
The topic is what the story was literally about (what the setting was, what events occured, what the character went through, etc.) The theme is the overall lesson that a reader can take from the story and apply to their own life.
What format do we use for the Works Cited? Hint: It's three letters.
MLA!
What was the Central Rock Crisis/Little Rock Nine?
The first nine students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. They were met with a lot of hostility and federal troops had to intervene.
Our deep breathing exercise goes like this...
Inhale for 1 2 3 4 5 hold for 3 2 1 exhale for 4 3 2 1