Snake That's Eating Florida
If you are reading nonfiction and you make connections that are not stated directly in the text, but can be supported by text evidence, what is that called?
What is an inference?
The subject of this article.
What is Malala fighting for education for girls?
Summaries should not include these two things:
What are opinions and quotations?
True or False? Rosie the Riveter was based on a real person who worked on fighter planes during the war.
What is true?
The team that got trapped in a cave played this sport.
What is soccer?
This one sentence summarizes the main idea of the whole article or passage.
What is central idea?
This group arranged for Malala to be shot in order to silence her.
What is the Taliban?
Sergeant Stubby was able to perform this military action along with the soldiers, which caused military leaders to love him and let him stay.
What is salute?
Rosie the Riveter's image was used to inspire women to enter the workforce when men could not.
What is yes.
The team was in the cave for this purpose.
What is a fun outing?
This snake is eating Florida.
What is the Burmese python?
The article "Malala the Powerful" is about a brave young girl who fought for education against the Taliban. I think the article showed how much she grew as a person as well as how brave she was. Malala is the bravest woman ever to fight for education.
What is False because it includes an opinion?
Sergeant Stubby met this president.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
If the article included a picture of the Rosie the Riveter poster, what would we call that picture in a NonFiction unit? (along with charts, maps, and other additions)
What is a text feature?
What is Thailand?
The "Snake" article included a story about farmers in Hawaii bring in mongooses from Jamaica. Why did the author include this story?
a. To show the danger of an invasive species in a new area
b. Because mongooses and pythons both eat rats
c. Because Burmese pythons and Mongooses both originate in India
A.
Malala used this to get the message out to the world about how life was under the influence of the Taliban.
What is a blog?
Why did the author include in the article the story about how Stubby saved the soldiers from the gas attack?
To show how Stubby truly did serve in the war and earned his awards.
Why did the author conclude the Rosie the Riveter article with this sentence:
However, the impact of the Rosie the Riveter era and idea was lasting in American culture and provided the foundation for later feminist movements.
To show how Rosie changed our culture.
The author of the article said that the water was murky and felt like swimming through this beverage.
What is coffee?
If you were writing a summary of "The Snake That's Eating Florida," would you include the following:
"But then these adorable hatchlings grow. And grow. And grow and grow and grow. An adult Burmese python can be more than 20 feet long."
No, because that is a quotation and summaries must be in your own words.
Which of the following is the central idea of the article:
a. Malala getting shot by the Taliban
b. Malala fighting for girls' education
c. The Taliban's strict beliefs
What is b?
Malala fighting for girls' education
By the end of the war, Stubby had served in this many battles.
The actual term "Rosie the Riveter" was first used in this.
What is a song?
In the section of the article entitled "Good Friends," the author described how the boys were friends, how their coach often organized fun trips, and how they were joking that day after practice. Why did the author include this section in the article?
Several possible answers:
The boys had no idea that they were headed for disaster as this was something they had done before without trouble.