What is the definition of mythology?
A collection of stories belonging to a particular religious or cultural group.
What is the subject of this sentence?
John walked the dog after work?
John
How many hearts does an octopus have?
3 hearts
Class Period?
1, 2, 5, 7, 8
What would be a gist statement for our activity right now?
We are playing a review Jeopardy game.
Something like that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is the definition of visualization?
Creating a mental image in your mind while you read, listen to or view information.
Wager Question
You can wager from 0 - 1000 points.
Your team will need to come up with how many points you want to wager then tell me.
Then I will reveal the question and everyone will write down their answer and show it to me. You get the question right you get the points. You get it wrong you lose the points.
Write a gist statement for this short story.
Juliet rode into town on her horse today. She needed to go to the store to buy some groceries so she can cook dinner. She bought all the ingredients and rode back home. When she got back home she made delicious spaghetti and meatballs and her whole family was very happy with the meal. They thanked her by getting her a new kitten.
What do koalas eat?
Eucalyptus leaves, which are toxic to most other animals.
Identify if the following group of words is a sentence or a fragment.
Carl walked to Target after school to buy a new notebook.
Complete sentence
How do you predict the Pep Assembly will go on Friday?
Loud, a lot of pep, high energy.
Stuff like that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is the definition of prediction?
An educated guess on what will happen next in the story based on clues from the text.
What are all the parts of a complete sentence?
Start with a capital letter
Subject and predicate
End with punctuation
Scooby-Doo is what kind of dog?
Great Dane
We learned about all of the text structures below except?
Cause and effect
Description
Classification
Problem and Solution
Compare and Contrast
Classification
Why do we learn about Mythology?
To learn about a past societies culture.
To learn the same things and ways they did.
IDK something along those lines ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is inferencing?
An educated guess at what a character is feeling based on clues from the text.
An educated guess at what is happening between two characters based on clues from the text.
An educated guess on the plot and what is happening with the story progress based on clues from the text.
All of these
When do you use main idea and when do you use central idea?
Main idea for shorter pieces of writing
Central idea for longer pieces of writing
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
July 4, 1776.
Why do authors write?
To persuade, inform, and entertain
Using _________ is when you use specific examples from the text to support your own claims or ideas.
Text Evidence
Why do we make connections? What are the 3 types of connections we make to text?
Comparing what you read with experiences you have had, other things you have read and/or the world around you
Text-To-Self
Text-To-Text
Test-To-World
If I am reading a book and I get reminded to the current political environment in America and I connect the book to what is happening in the world to understand it at a deeper level.
What connection skill am I using?
Text-To-World
What is the unit of measurement for power?
Watt. It's named after Scottish scientist James Watt.
Wager Question
You can wager from 0 - 1000 points.
Your team will need to come up with how many points you want to wager then tell me.
Then I will reveal the question and everyone will write down their answer and show it to me. You get the question right you get the points. You get it wrong you lose the points.
What does R.A.C.E.S stand for?
Why do we use it?
Identify if the following group of words is a sentence or a fragment.
Carl walked to Target after school to buy a new notebook.
Once when I was very tired and went to Target.
Sentence
Fragment