Michael Vey
Topic Sentences
Text-Based Evidence
Name the Band
Teachers
100

You're in for a jolt when you find out this is Michael's supernatural power. 

Electricity

100

This is the name for the first sentence (usually) in a paragraph. 

Topic sentence

100

What is the correct formula for a text-dependent answer? 

Answer, evidence, explanation

100

K-Boom.  This band will blow you up with their hit song "Dynamite."

BTS

100

This teacher can be found in the gym probably wearing a Raider's jersey.  

Mr. Monroe

200

Named for a city in Texas, this best friend of Michael is a human computer. 

Ostin

200

These are the other sentences in a paragraph. 

Supporting details

200

What must you use in order to correctly answer a textual-evidence based question?

The source or the text

200

This brother duo was really "stressed out" in 2016, and they could hardly recognize each others' "blurryfaces."

21 Pilots

200

This former collegiate basketball player had roles in movies with Whoopi Goldberg, but now teaches students about cells and farms cockroaches.    

Coach Bell

300

She is our protagonists out-of-his-league crush, until she is not so out-of-his-league.

Taylor Ridley

300

The topic sentence out of the following sentences. 

A) One reason chores are a waste of time is because they have to be done again later. 

B) There are many reasons why chores are terrible.  

C) The last reason chores are terrible is chores are necessary. 

B) There are many reasons why chores are terrible. 

300

Don't quote me on this, but a text-based answer should use these marks when copying something from the text. 

Quotation marks

300

Hailing from across this ocean, this band was made up by at least Harry Styles.  The others may have gone in different directions. 

One Direction 

300

Even if you don't have this teacher, you can probably hear her down the hallway giving lectures about being an "Emerging Young Adult."

Ricks

400

Even though they have only one thing in common, this is the animal that Michael spends the most time studying. 

Electric eel

400

What is a topic sentence for the subject "School?"

Any correct response. 

400

When using textual evidence, we should always do this at the beginning so the reader knows someone else's words are coming up.  

Introductory phrase

400

Gotta get that boom boom pow.  You may find this band on your dining table on New Year's Day.  

Black Eyed Peas

400

With a grumpy scowl on his face, this man may teach you about social studies or baseball.  Don't mistake him for a brand of underwear.  

Haynes

500

This electrifying school is searching for two new students who have slipped through their grasp for 15 years. 

Elgen Academy

500

Topic sentence for the subject "Phones."

Any acceptable response. 

500

To let the reader know where the information can be found, if this is known, it should be put at the end of the quote.   

Page number. 

500

This band doesn't want to be an "American Idiot," so they wore eyeliner and wrote songs like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

Green Day

500

Don't get a ticket! Except in this teacher's class, who gives tickets to students they can then use to pay for treats.  

Webster

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