Authors
Reading strategies
Literary & Visual Devices
Month by Month
Wild Card
100

The name of our visiting authors for next year (Two authors, one community)

Lisa and Matt McMann
100

Readers often do this at the start of a book, chapter, or passage. 

Make predictions

100

A type of figurative speech used for noises like Baaa or Crash!

Onomatopoeia

100

The month we finished learning how to read informative texts for type of structure used.

May

100

Number of UN Sustainable Development Goals

17.

200

The author of The Island

Armin Greder

200

Events, images, or words that repeat


What is Again and Again?

(reading signposts - fiction)

200

A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.

A metaphor

(a simile uses like or as)

200

The month we went on a field trip

September

200

Parts of culture that are immaterial but are passed down across time like skills, knowledge, etc.

Intangible Cultural Heritage

300

The author of one of our book club titles, previously featured in a MS play, and set in Malaysia. 

Hanna Alkaf

300

Use of language that leaves no doubt about a situation or event, perhaps exaggerates or overstates a case.


Extreme or Absolute Language.

(reading signposts - nonfiction)

300

The three rhetorical devices used in writing, in particular speeches.

Ethos, pathos, logos
300

The month we finished our Speak Out Persuasive Speeches 

April

300

The Hierarchy of Needs was created by

Doctor Maslow

400

The name of the writer who wrote the original "Where I'm From" poem

George Ella Lyon

400

This signpost is found in both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Contrast and Contradictions

400

Visuals make use of this technique a lot, but different cultures may interpret the meaning differently.

Color

400

The month we wrote our "This I Believe" personal narrative stories.

November

400

Number of levels on the Pyramid of Hate

5

500

In unit one, the name of the short story by Amy Tan. The story was about a girl and a boy she liked coming over to her house for a festive dinner.

Fish Cheeks

500

A quick strategy to help you figure out what information you should take notes on.

Is it INTERESTING or IMPORTANT?
500

a feature of a visual text which the audience's eyes will follow a path towards when viewing the image

Vectors

500

Ms. Giroux's birthday month

August

500

This stage of Genocide occurs when those in power are using propaganda to widen the gap between groups, silencing moderates who try to bridge the divide, and criminalizing intermarriage or cross-group interaction.

Polarization

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