This is a statement of fact.
Ms. Partington will give you a thumbs up or thumbs down.
A statement that can be proven is this.
What is a fact?
A statement that expresses a person's feelings.
What is an Opinion?
Lasting for an indefinitely long time; continuing without interruption
What is Perpetual?
The reason the traps they set didn't work.
What are they were mouse traps?
These are two examples of Secondary Sources.
What are textbooks, edited works, histories, biographies, literary criticism?
This is writing that provides factual information– main purpose is to inform or to explain.
What is Informative Nonfiction?
This is a type of writing that tells about real people, places and events.
What is Nonfiction?
To use smoke or fumes in order to kill off rodents or insects; to infects
What is Fumigate?
The reason that Yep felt excluded from his family.
What is asthma?
These are two types of Primary Sources.
What are autobiograpies/memoirs, letters, diaries, minutes, photographs, artifacts, interviews, and sound or video recordings?
These sources convey direct, firsthand knowledge.
What is a primary source?
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?
Self restraint in the way one looks or acts
What is Reserve?
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?
These are two examples of Literary Nonfiction.
What are autobiographies, biographies, memoir, and essays?
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?
This is a source that was created later by someone who did not experience or participate in the events
What is a Secondary Source?
In an abrupt, sudden manner
What is Brusquely?
The reason the rat hunt was special to Yep.
These are two types of Informative Nonfiction.
What are textbooks and news articles?
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?
This is the type of Literary Nonfiction that the Great Rat Hunt is. (Be Specific)
What is a memoir?
Incompetence, clumsiness; displaying a lack of judgement
What is Ineptitude?
The organizational pattern that the story is told is.
What is chronological order?