Q1 English
Signposts
The Art of the Essay
Mickle Staff
Figurative Language
100

The gift the boy brings to the lunchroom in the story "Red Roses"

What is red roses?

100

Total number of signposts we've covered this year

What is 6?

100

The first and last paragraphs in a formal essay

What are the introduction and conclusion?

100

8th grade teacher who is newest to Mickle

Who is Mr. Osborn or Mrs. Petersen?

100

Words or phrases that compare one thing to another using like or and

What is a simile?

200

The first summative project for Q1

What is a Personal Narrative Essay/This I Believe Essay/Personal Narrative?

200

Signpost that notices when a character gives thoughtful & helpful advice to another character

What is Words of the Wiser

200

parts of the essay that show what one character said to another or the words a character is thinking

What is dialogue?

200

New Mickle Principal

Who is Mrs. Lind?

200

words that imitate a sound

What is onomatopoeia?

300

A major event in a person's life that changes us or teaches us an important lesson

What is a milestone?


300

Signpost that notices when a character does something that is inconsistent or unpredictable

What is Contrast/Contradiction?

300

the main idea or lesson in an essay

What is theme?

300

New Mickle 8th grade counselor

Mrs. Majid

300

I will die if I have to sit by that kid.

What is hyperbole?

400

The main theme or idea around which all projects for the quarter revolve

What is the Essential Question?

400

Dory the fish's "Just keep swimming." (from Finding Nemo)

What is "Again and Again?"

400

a piece of writing that follows specific guidelines and has set expectations about what it should look and sound like

What is formal writing?

400

Number of cats Mrs. Wieting has

What is 5?

400

Jonah is a bear if he wakes up early.

What is a metaphor?

500

Q1 Essential Question

What are milestones on the path to growing up?

500

When the narrator in "Red Roses" realizes that she can make the choice to be kind or not

What is a tough question OR an AHA moment?

500

nonfiction essay told in first person point of view

personal narrative

500

Libby's breed

What is mixed breed?

500

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

The italicized line in the poem

What is allusion?

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