Central or Main Idea
Readers have to do this _____ which means to examine the parts of the text in detail.
What is analyze?
The pattern formed by the rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
The main problem or struggle in a work of literature.
What is the conflict?
Juanita Jewel Craft began her career of service to others in 1935 when she joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This group worked to eliminate laws and practices that led to the unfair treatment of African Americans. She first worked as a field organizer for the NAACP, focusing on building membership in the organization. In 1946, Craft took a position on the NAACP Youth Council. In this role, she worked to motivate and mobilize young people to join the fight for racial equality.
Using context clues what does the word mobilize mean in this paragraph?
assemble as a group
This informational text structure has to do with how and why something happened
What is cause and effect?
The most important point that an author makes about a topic in a text
What is central or main idea?
This is a regular pattern that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm
What is meter?
The moment when the series of events in a plot suddenly change.
What is the turning point or climax?
During this time, Craft also worked to fight against discrimination in other ways. For example, she encouraged a boycott of the 1955 Texas State Fair because African Americans were denied entry to the fair except for one day. Craft also worked toward equality from a legal angle. She helped a young African American sue a Texas college because only whites were admitted. This case finally helped to integrate the school for students of color.
Using context clues, what does discrimination mean in this paragraph?
Unfair treatment
A text structure in which events or steps are presented in the order in which they took place
What is sequential or chronological?
What do these details tell us about Simone Biles?
The 2013 world championships marked Simone Biles’s arrival on the elite gymnastics scene. Four years later, her accolades include three all-around world championships, and four gold medals and one bronze at the 2016 Olympics. As Olympics teammate Aly Raisman told the New Yorker, “Simone’s just in her own league. Whoever gets second place, that’s the winner.”
She was the goat; an amazing, one-of-a-kind athlete; outstanding in her field
What poetic element is shown in this poem?
you said then for “Father,”
only to see the face
look strangely down, utterly
foreign, utterly not the one
who loves you, you
who are a bird suddenly
stunned by the glass partitions
of rooms
What is repetition?
What is the conflict in this excerpt?
Uncle David brought the Unknown Taco out and placed it before Dad. “Hold on,” Uncle David said, then he pulled a single pink candle from his pocket, and squished it into the taco. “This is a special occasion.”
Carlos’s dad laughed nervously. “Hope you guys took it easy on me,” he said.
Grandpa Frank stood in the doorway with arms crossed.
Carlos's dad doesn't feel like he belongs or fits in with the rest of the family. This is the first time they've asked him to eat the Unknown Taco and he feels like he can't say no.
During this time, Craft also worked to fight against discrimination in other ways. For example, she encouraged a boycott of the 1955 Texas State Fair because African Americans were denied entry to the fair except for one day. Craft also worked toward equality from a legal angle. She helped a young African American sue a Texas college because only whites were admitted. This case finally helped to integrate the school for students of color.
What does the word integrate mean in this paragraph?
combine, bring together, or merge
From Flesh and Blood So Cheap: "A girl fell; others fell on top of her, blocking the stairs until firefighters arrived moments later. Yet everyone who took the stairway from the eighth floor got out alive, exiting through the Washington Place doors. Those on the ninth floor were not so lucky." What text structure is used?
Compare and Contrast
What is the central idea of these paragraphs?
Biles is an exceptional athlete. Yet, her commitment to honing that athleticism in the gym and her willingness to make tough choices are what truly set her apart. Along the way, she has gracefully leapt over many hurdles. She has confronted racism and bullying. She has learned to accept the mental challenges that come with competing on the world’s biggest stages. Few athletes have been able to stay so resolute.
Simone Biles isn’t done either. She plans to continue participating in domestic and international gymnastics events. She has even hinted at a desire to make another Olympics run at the 2020 games in Tokyo, when she’ll be 23. Regardless of whether she competes at the next Olympics, Simone Biles already exemplifies what it means to be an Olympic champion. In a sport where perfect-10 scores no longer exist, she’s as close as they come to the perfect gymnast.
Biles is an amazing gymnast because she worked hard and overcame obstacles.
What is this type of figurative language?
My mother cut her hair several years ago, before I was born, but she kept one heavy braid. It is the three-foot snake I lift from its nest and handle as if it were alive.
It is a metaphor comparing her mother's braid to a snake.
24 Aurora yelled at Gavin through the bathroom door. “It’s like you woke up and decided you were gonna do dumb stuff all day!”
25 He groaned from the toilet.
26 “It doesn’t even count if David makes the Unknown Taco,” Aurora said. “My dad has to make it. Everyone knows that!”
How does Aurora's statement in paragraph 26 important to the plot?
Gavin (Carlos's dad) is still an outsider because the taco he ate doesn't count.
Based on this excerpt what does it tell you about the life of a goldseeker? Which words prove that?
After his mother died, his father and he came on up the river, step by step, from camp to camp, till now they are settled down on the Mazy May Creek in the Klondike country. Last year they and several others had spent much toil and time on the Mazy May, and endured great hardships; the creek, in turn, was just beginning to show up its richness and to reward them for their heavy labor.
The goldseekers have a difficult or hard life on the Mazy May; toil, endured great hardships, heavy labor
When prospectors found a promising spot, they staked a claim by placing posts at each corner, one with their name and date on it. The prospector then had three days to go to town and file a legal claim. Because the claims were usually measured by crude means, disagreements over exact boundaries were common.
The first claim in a new location was called the “discovery claim.” Subsequent claims were legally referred to by their relationship to this claim, 1along with the name of the creek—
What type of text structure is used here?
Sequential
The hamster is an ideal pet. This tiny animal is related to the mouse and rat. A hamster weighs about one quarter of a pound and is about five to six inches long. Hamsters are clean. They can live in a small cage or pen. They eat vegetable scraps and grain. What is the main idea?
A) The hamster is a clean animal.
B) Hamsters are not that big.
C) The hamster is a popular pet.
C) The hamster is a popular pet.
What are the two types of figurative language and what does this show us as the reader?
She is so tall, a true Dakota woman; she rises against the sun like a skyscraper, and when I draw her picture in my notebook, she takes up the entire page. She talks politics and attends sit-ins, wrestles with the Chicago police and says what’s on her mind.
I am her small shadow and witness. I am the timid daughter who can rage only on paper.
"she rises against the sun like a skyscraper" is a simile; it shows how important her mother is to her
"I am her small shadow" is a metaphor; shows that they have a connection, she feels like a part of her mother even though she is so small
What are the 5 parts of a plot diagram?
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_____ ____
Exposition, rising action, turning point/climax, falling action, and resolution
After his mother died, his father and he came on up the river, step by step, from camp to camp, till now they are settled down on the Mazy May Creek in the Klondike country. Last year they and several others had spent much toil and time on the Mazy May, and endured great hardships; the creek, in turn, was just beginning to show up its richness and to reward them for their heavy labor.
What do the underlined sentences tell us about the men?
They finally found gold after suffering and working hard on the Mazy May.
“The Taliban is against education because they think that when a child reads a book or learns English or studies science he or she will become Westernized.”
Which text structure is this excerpt? Why do you think that?
This is cause-and-effect because the author explains why the Taliban oppose education.