My man, Thomas C. Foster!
MLA all the way!
Standards Focus
HOW? WHY??
Miscellaneous
100
In stories, the protagonist (often the "hero") often goes on one of these.
What is a quest or journey?
100
This is the MLA-styled header.
What is my name, teacher's name, class period, and date (day month year)?
100
These is what the standards provide for us as students.
What is the purpose for reading or learning?
100
One of the things we read for in "The Lottery" relates to how Jackson builds tension. How did the setting add to this aspect?
What is the setting suggests freedom and fun (summer), but instead is the backdrop for an unexpected and senseless murder? **This is about more than her story. Always pay attention to the setting, which involves both time and place!
100
These are the two types of quotes AND how they're different.
What is a direct quote and an indirect quote? What is directly quoting, verbatim (word for word) an author's writing? What is paraphrasing or summarizing an author's writing?
200
According to Foster, this is the real reason a hero often must go somewhere.
What is to gain self-knowledge?
200
If my lead-in to a quote is: Connell describes the setting as "..., then what would go inside of the parenthetical citation and why?
What is just the page number because the author is already mentioned?
200
This is a primary difference between science and English.
What is science is about content and English is about skills development?
200
This is a sign of a good reader. It shows that you're paying attention.
What is making predictions about the text?
200
This is how paraphrasing is different from summarizing.
What is paraphrasing is rewording an author's writing while summarizing is giving the main idea(s) or point(s) of an author's writing?
300
This is why the protagonist is often dynamic. **Consider conflict in your response.
What is the protagonist usually overcomes obstacles and so grows as a person?
300
This is why you need to know MLA style.
What is we will be writing English essays not only in high school, but also in college, if we go that route?
300
This is why it usually doesn't matter what specific stories we read.
What is it's not important what a story is ABOUT, but instead it matters that we can learn how to analyze and know how to approach a written work?
300
This is the term for an author’s word choice.
What is diction? **How is this related to tone?
300
Describe the tone of this excerpt and provide specific words to support your determination: True! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
What is agitated or disturbed? **nervous, dreadful, disease, destroyed
400
Foster says that when a character hits the road, we ought to pay attention. Why? (I couldn't figure out how to make that an answer.)
Foster's purpose is to help his audience read like a Professor, and so if we know to look out for when a "character hits the road," we will be more likely to recognize a quest in development.
400
When citing a written work, this is the only time you do not include the page number in the parenthetical citation, whether a direct or indirect quote.
PSYCH! What is you always include the page number?
400
This has been the main focus for the first few weeks.
What is citing textual evidence to support what we say about a text?
400
This term is for a narrator whom we cannot trust entirely.
What is an unreliable narrator?
400
What is a common theme through the stories we've read?
What is death or murder? 1) death from a stranger 2) death from a community 3) death from a friend 4) death from a spouse
500
This objective writing helps us to take away the important parts of a written work. Give me both words.
What is a rhetorical precis?
500
You have two minutes to put this into an MLA-styled quote: "But no animal can reason," objected Rainsford. page 27
Connell writes, "'But no animal can reason,' objected Rainsford" (27).
500
This is how text-dependent questions helps you to build credibility as both a reader and a writer.
What is we prove what we claim about a reading and in doing so, provide more than just an opinion?
500
The use of this literary device can help build suspense. Also, and don't try to make this into a question, but also tell me HOW this term helps to create suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
500
According to the very short article we read by Donald Miller, this is the point of a story.
What is character transformation?
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