Give me an example.
Nonfiction
Terms
Words to know.
Great Rat Hunt
100

This is a statement of fact.

Ms. Partington will give you a thumbs up or thumbs down.

100

A statement that can be proven is this.

What is a fact?

100

A statement that expresses a person's feelings.

What is an Opinion?

100

Lasting for an indefinitely long time; continuing without interruption

What is Perpetual? 

100

The reason the traps they set didn't work. 

What are they were mouse traps? 

200

These are two examples of Secondary Sources.

What are textbooks, edited works, histories, biographies, literary criticism?

200

This is writing that provides factual information– main purpose is to inform or to explain.

What is Informative Nonfiction?

200

This is a type of writing that tells about real people, places and events.

What is Nonfiction?

200

To use smoke or fumes in order to kill off rodents or insects; to infects

What is Fumigate? 

200

The reason that Yep felt excluded from his family.

What is asthma? 

300

These are two types of Primary Sources.

What are autobiograpies/memoirs, letters, diaries, minutes, photographs, artifacts, interviews, and sound or video recordings?


300

These sources convey direct, firsthand knowledge.

What is a primary source?

300

This kind of writing is like fiction, except the characters, setting and plot are real rather than imaginary. Its purpose is usually to entertain or express opinions or feelings.

What is Literary Nonfiction?

300

Self restraint in the way one looks or acts

What is Reserve? 

300

This is the main conflict of the story. (Give me the conflict and the kind of conflict.)

What is an internal conflict as Yep grapples with finding his place in his family?

400

These are two examples of Literary Nonfiction.

What are autobiographies, biographies, memoir, and essays?

400

This kind of writing focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object.


What is a Memoir?

400

This is a source that was created later by someone who did not experience or participate in the events 


What is a Secondary Source?

400

In an abrupt, sudden manner

What is Brusquely?

400

The reason the rat hunt was special to Yep. 

Why does Yep learn more about his father's past and builds/strengthens his relationship with his family? 
500

These are two types of Informative Nonfiction.

What are textbooks and news articles?

500

These are 3 characteristics of Memoir.

What are it maintains a first person point of view, it is limited to a particular phase, time period, place, or recurring behavior in order to develop the focus fully, and explains the significance of the relationship?


500

This is the type of Literary Nonfiction that the Great Rat Hunt is. (Be Specific)

What is a memoir?

500

Incompetence, clumsiness; displaying a lack of judgement

What is Ineptitude? 

500

The organizational pattern that the story is told is. 

What is chronological order? 

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