About the club
What is the name of this club?
Pages of Possibilities
What is fiction?
This type of story is made up or a product of imagination.
Maya is nervous about starting eighth grade at a brand-new school across the country. She worries about fitting in and making friends. Over the first few weeks, she navigates everyday social ups and downs, eventually joining the art club and making a new friend.
What genre is this?
Realistic Fiction
This outside part protects the pages and usually features the title and the author's name.
What is the cover?
Does grammar matter in books?
Yes! Otherwise, books won't make sense, and could be understood wrong
What grade are all of us club members in?
7th Grade
What is realistic fiction?
A story made up story that could happen in life.
The dragon above me roared as it breathed out fire from its mouth. I ducked down so that I wouldn't get hit by the fire. There were little fairies near the plants and flowers in the garden. They were using their magic to help the plants grow faster.
What genre is this?
Fantasy
A reader uses this paragraph or summary on the back cover to quickly figure out what the story is about before buying or borrowing it.
What is the book summary?
Is the error punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or is all three?
Wow! Tony said. He jumped up and down because he was excitted to start his first robotiics class as he passed the teest.
Punctuation and spelling!
It's missing quotation marks, and the words "excited" , "robotics" , and "test" are spelled wrong.
Who is the president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary?
President ~ Maanvi Konduri
Vice President ~ Preksha Gande
Treasurer ~ Nihira Malneedi
Secretary ~ Bahar Sayed
What historical fiction?
Historical fiction is a literary and artistic genre where a fictional story is set in a significant period of the pastAutobiography
What genre is a true story about a real person's life written by someone other than the person themselves?
Biography
A reader flips to the copyright page to look up this specific 4-digit number to know exactly when the book was first published.
What is the published year?
Is the error punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or is all three?
Oh my goodness! This chocolate is delicious! sam said as she closed the frigde. "Can I please have some?" sam asked. "of course!" said julie.
The error is all three.
It's missing quotation marks, capitalizing S in Sam, o in Of, and J in Julie, and fridge is misspelled.
"Oh my goodness! This chocolate is delicious!" Sam said as she closed the fridge. "Can I please have some?" Sam asked. "Of course!" said Julie.
What is the goal of the club?
To publish a book!
Is poetry a genre?
Yes.
I ran quickly to the exit of the cave before all the rocks came tumbling on top of me. I held onto my bag containing the most precious jewel of all time and could change the lives of a whole island.
What genre is this?
Adventure
What is an epilogue and and a prologue?
A prologue is a short introductory section comes before Chapter 1 to set up the backstory or give a mysterious preview of the plot.
A epilogue is a short concluding section at the very end of a story that reveals what happens to the characters way into the future.
"What's that on your desk?" Maya asked her friend.
What do you call the part where it says "Maya asked her friend"?
That part is called a Speaker tag
What is the something you should do in google classroom everyday after each meeting of the club?
Fill out the google form on improving the club!
What is the difference between mystery, horror and thriller/suspense? What different feelings do they create?
Mystery: Creates curiosity using clues and investigation to look into the past.
Horror: Creates fear while focusing on the present.
Thriller.suspense: Creates anxiety/anticipation and focuses on the future.
"Let's use the time machine to go into the future! I don't want to be here and be a slave anymore!" Maya cried as she looked behind her to make sure her owner didn't know that she snuck out.
What genre is this?
Sci-fi (uses futuristic devices). It's a blend of historical fiction and sci-fi but the answer to the question would be sci-fi because it focuses more on sci-fi than historical fiction.
This is the back edge of the book that faces out when it's on a shelf, keeping all the pages bound together.
What is a spine?
Is the error punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or is all three?
"Tony, can I please borrow a pencil? I was too tired and left mine at hom." said Brooke. "Of course! Would you like a wood pencil or a mekanikal pencil?" asked Tony. "Wood, thanks!" replied Brooke.
The error is spelling. The word "home" and the word, "mechanical" are spelled wrong.
"Tony, can I please borrow a pencil? I was too tired and left mine at home." said Brooke. "Of course! Would you like a wood pencil or a mechanical pencil?" asked Tony. "Wood, thanks!" replied Brooke.