MAIN IDEA
ESSAYS
BIOGRAPHY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ROOT WORDS &
AFFIXES
GRAMMAR
100
Define main idea.
What is the central message of a selection
100
This format of an essay explains, defines, or interprets facts.
What is an expository essay?
100
"When I was six, I spent most of my time in the corner at school." This is an example of why type of writing?
What is auto-biography?
100
Meaning of -able.
What is capable of being?
100
Slowly but surely the teacher taught the concept. List the conjunction
What is "but"?
200
A reading strategy that helps you find the main idea.
What is skimming?
200
This essay format informs you about the author's thoughts and feelings.
What is a reflective essay?
200
The similarity between a biography and autobiography.
What is they are both about someones life story.
200
The suffix -ness means.
What is the condition of being?
200
Hooking up words, phrases and clauses. Name the part of speech.
What is a coordinating conjunction
300
This type of reading helps you understand how the main idea is supported by example. Mrs. G. taught it!
What is CLOSE READING?
300
This type of essay tries to convince you to believe in something.
What is persuasive?
300
Describes someone else's life.
What is a biography?
300
The root word -rupt-
What is break or burst?
300
Combine: You can't borrow my pencil. I need it for math.
What is You can't borrow my pencil because I need it for math?
400
What strategy would you use to find the main idea when it is not stated?
What is making connections between key points and details?
400
Tapioca comes from the root of the cassava plant, which is highly poisonous when uncooked. The food was discovered when a Spanish explorer was lost in the jungles of Brazil. Preferring a quick death to slow starvation, the explorer cooked cassava roots in water and drank the mixture. THIS IS AN ___________________essay (Format)
What is expository?
400
Describes the writer's life.
What is an auto biography?
400
-just-
What is fair, right or law?
400
I love to ski. I am less enthusiastic about going up the rope tow. Combine with a conjunction.
What is I love to ski, but I am less enthusiastic about going up the rope tow.
500
The main idea of : Many early settlers came to the New World carrying wheat grain with them. They knew that brad, which is made from grain, is a very important food. That's why it's called the "staff of life." They often packed their little bags of grain in their trunks. It had to be kept dry so it wouldn't rot.
What is early settlers carried wheat grain with them?
500
Read the passage and tell the author's purpose. The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution were twin explosions in thing that made the 17th and 18centuries one of the most exciting and dynamic eras in European history. People came to believe in the power of human reason apart from the guidance of religion. Astronomers concluded that the Sun rather than the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is to explain or inform?
500
Lincoln's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly
What is a biography?
500
If something erupts, what does it do?
What is burst or break?
500
function of a preposition
What is to connect a noun or pronoun to another word.
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