Vocabulary
an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions
Accountability
_______about the challenges the main character is facing.
Think
the people or animals in a story
Characters
Comparing two like things, but like and as are not used
Metaphor
when a law enforcement officer uses more physical force than is necessary to handle a situation
Excessive Force
__________yourself, “What is the main character struggling with?” or “what does the author want me to believe?”
Ask
the time and place where a story happens
Setting
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
a form of police misconduct, is the unjustified and often unnecessary use of excessive force. It includes racial abuse, beatings, torture, manhandling.
Police Brutality
___________to how the main character reacts to and solves the problem.
Pay Attention
What do we call a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea?
Noun
“The sun smiled at me.” What kind of figurative language is this?
Personification
a person who has been declared not guilty of a crime.
Acquitted
_______+__________=Theme
Topic+what the author wants us to learn about it
“The wind whispered through the trees.” What type of figurative language is this?
personification
What do we call it when words start with the same sound, like “Silly Sally sang softly”?
Alliteration
unfair treatment of people based on their skin color is built into the way some parts of society work — like schools, jobs, or the legal system.
Systemic Racism
the big idea or message in a story.
Theme
If something happens in a story and causes something else to happen, what is this called?
cause and effect
What do we call a saying that doesn’t mean exactly what it says, like “break a leg”?
Idiom