Reading
This is the big idea or life lesson in fiction.
What is the theme?
Another word for a claim in personal opinion or persuasive writing.
What is a thesis statement?
Length x width is the formula to find this.
What is area?
This is the iconic immigration station in the Northeast region that welcomed millions of immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This is the Russian poet and author whose work is admired by Rifka and Tovah.
What is Alexander Pushkin?
The purpose of this genre of text is to inform and teach.
What is non-fiction?
For instance, Furthermore, In addition to this, and Moreover, are examples of these that help readers move from one idea or example to the next.
What are transitional phrases?
Numbers that only have two factors - one and itself.
What are prime numbers?
This term is used to describe how enslaved Africans came to live in the Americas.
What is forced migration?
This is the school where "The Other Miss Michael" teaches.
What is Bridge (or Fiske! ;-)?
The table of contents, glossary, photographs, captions, and maps are examples of these.
What are text features?
A group of sentences that focus on a particular topic, event, or subject.
What is a paragraph?
20,000 + 8,000 + 400 + 30 + 5 = 28,435 is an example of this.
What is expanded notation?
War, persecution, famine, and natural disasters are examples of these.
What are push factors?
The wise character in Tiger Rising known called "The Prophetess" by Sistine?
Who is Willie Mae?
What a character does, says, thinks, and how a character acts reveals these to readers.
What are character traits?
One way to plan and organize writing a personal narrative or realistic fiction story.
What is a story arc (mountain) or timeline?
The number of lines of symmetry in a square.
What are four?
Name three products grown in the Southeast region.
What are rice, cotton, tobacco, and peanuts?
Your race, gender, ethnicity, cultural traditions, role and position in your family, interests and talents are all important aspects of this.
What is identity?
Compare and contrast, chronological order, cause and effect, description and problem/solution represent these.
What are text structures?
What is a hook/lead, a thesis statement, and a preview of reasons?
This mathematical term is used to describe problems in which you compare how many times greater an amount is to another. (e.g., A gorilla is 4 ft. tall. A giraffe is 4 times as tall as a gorilla. How many feet tall is the giraffe?)
What is multiplicative comparison?
This mountain range runs from the Maine in the Northeast region to Georgia in the Southeast?
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The artist who painted the glorious Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?