The process of.
Transportation.
What is the central idea of any text?
How can I find it in a text?
What the text is mostly about. Is the point of the text and what the author is sharing with us.
Read the first and last paragraph AGAIN.
Look for repeated words in the text.
Look at the headings.
Who says I'm building different?
Dylan Chevres
In the sentence,
The kid was talking loudly in the hallway.
What part of speech is loudly?
Adverb
It describes the verb
Who wears amazing pizza shirts to school?
Zee
What is the meaning of the morpheme -ly?
Make a word with it.
In a way or how something is.
Slowly
What is author's claim?
It is the author's opinion.
What is the theme of a story?
It is the lesson of the story.
In the sentence,
Ms. Sykes wore a cute shirt.
What part of speech is cute?
Adjective
It describes a noun.
What is hyperbole and give an example.
It is an exaggeration.
What is the meaning of the morpheme -y?
Make a word with it.
Characterized by.
Cloudy.
What is the difference between character's perspective and characterization?
Character's perspective is the way the characters feel about something (Ice cream)
Characterization is the way they are and the way they act (personality - careless, careful)
In the sentence,
We need to get transportation to get to the theme parks.
What is the meaning of transportation and what part of speech is it?
Transportation means the process of carrying something across. It is a noun.
What is this figurative language? What is the meaning?
The world is my stage. It means that life is a show and you we all have roles to play in our everyday lives.
The word mysteriously has two morphemes in it.
Which ones are they and what are their meanings?
-ous. It means the quality of.
-ly. It means in a way or how something is.
What word lets me know what a heading DOES NOT do in a text?
What do line breaks do?
Line breaks create the rhyme scheme of the poem. They break the lines.
In the sentence,
That colorless drawing is not what the teacher wanted.
What is the meaning of colorless and what part of speech is it?
Colorless means without color and it is an adjective because it describes a noun.
What is this figurative language and what does it mean?
The juicy, fresh, cold orange was sitting on top of the freshly wiped counter.
It is imagery. It is describing something in a lot of details so it creates an image in your head when you read it.
The word transporting has three morphemes in it.
Which ones are they and what are the meaning of them?
Trans- It means across.
Port - It means to carry.
Ing - It means it is happening right now.
What are all the text structures we have learned and what do they mean?
Description
Chronology
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Sequence
Problem and Solution
What is the difference between repetition and alliteration?
What word helps me know what repetition does?
Repetition is when WORDS are repeated in a poem.
Alliteration is when SOUNDS are repeated at the beginning of words.
Repetition EMPHASIZES feelings and ideas in a poem.
In the sentence,
That person was conducting the orchestra when we watched the show.
What is the meaning of conducting and what part of speech is it?
Conducting means to lead right now and it is a verb because it is an action.
Write all the figurative languages we have learned and what they mean.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Hyperbole
Imagery
Personification
Idiom