Authors
The name of our visiting author this year.
Kelly Yang
Readers often do this at the start of a book, chapter, or passage.
Make predictions
A type of figurative speech used for noises like Baaa or Crash!
Onomatopoeia
The month we finished learning how to read informative texts for type of structure used.
May
Number of UN Sustainable Development Goals
17
The author of The Island
Armin Greder
Events, images, or words that repeat
What is Again and Again?
(reading signposts - fiction)
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
A metaphor
(a simile uses like or as)
The month we went on a field trip
December
Parts of culture that are immaterial but are passed down across time like skills, knowledge, etc.
Intangible cultural heritage
Who wrote the following lines:
"I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you"
Rita Joe, in the poem "I Lost My Talk"
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)
The three rhetorical devices used in writing, in particular speeches.
Ethos, pathos, logos
The month we finished our Speak Out persuasive speeches
The Hierarchy of Needs was created by
Maslow
The name of the writer who wrote the original "Where I'm From" poem
George Ella Lyon
A strategy that helps us see ourselves or understand the lives of others in a story.
Visuals make use of this technique a lot, but different cultures may interpret the meaning differently.
Color
The month we wrote our "This I Believe" personal narrative stories.
November
Number of levels on the Pyramid of Hate
Five
The author of our unit one short story, "Names/Nombres"
Julia Alvarez
This signpost is found in both fiction and nonfiction texts.
Contrasts and contradicitons
A feature of a visual text which the audience's eyes will follow a path towards when viewing the image
Vectord
January
What year did the Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia?
1975