Wild Card
Direct object:
"Amelia and I cleaned the classroom"
What is classroom?
The parts of an essay. *MUST BE IN ORDER*
What are: the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion?
Patterns of organization
What are: chronological order, spatial order, order of importance, and logical order?
Descriptions using the five sense
What are sensory details?
Purposes of writing
What are: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade?
Subject complement:
"Watching baseball games is interesting."
What is interesting?
One or two sentences clearly stating main idea
What is a thesis statement?
after, before, during, finally, later, until are all examples of transition words to show ________
What is to show time?
What is editing?
Type of paragraph recounting events
What is narrative?
Direct object: "We painted the ceiling"
What is ceiling?
Comes after an intro and provides readers with info they need to understand the essay's main idea
What are the body paragraphs?
Types of sentences
What are declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory?
Which stage is for brainstorming ideas
What is prewriting?
Pattern of organization used to describe a store's location
What is spatial order?
Subject complement:
"Mrs. Billiot is a teacher."
What is teacher?
What are: topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence?
A clause which expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence
What is an independent clause?
Which stage does a writer begin turning their ideas into a text
What is drafting?
Pattern of organization used to summarize the plot of a story
What is chronological order?
Compound subject vs. compound verb:
"The smartphone sends e-mails and plays music."
What is compound verb?
Types of paragraphs
What are: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive?
Type of sentence:
"The team played well, but it lost."
What is compound sentence?
Five stages of writing process in order
What are: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing?
Favorite teacher this year
Who is Mrs. Billiot?