Plot Elements
The plot element that is 1954, Civil Rights time period, segregation is unconstitutional, John and Audrey
What is Exposition?
a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters
What is proper nouns?
Another word for feeling anger or irritation.
What is resentment?
A complex sentence has
What is an independent clause and a dependent clause?
The time and place the story takes place
What is Setting?
John and Audrey fight over whether she will go to school. John learns that his father has been laid off from work. This is the _______ in the story.
What is climax/turning point?
The proper noun in, “It’s only the National Guard, I expect,” his mother said calmly.
What is the National Guard?
Wailing or crying as a way of expressing grief
What is lament?
An _____________ is a complete sentence containing a subject and a verb and fully expressing an idea.
What is an independent clause?
The message or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is theme?
The logical result of our climax, also known as falling action.
What is John and Audrey decided to go to school?
"Knowing and learning the truth were worth so much they said—and then left it to the hooting rain crow to tell you that things were worse than everybody had hoped."
The number of proper nouns in this sentence.
What is 0?
Another word for if you are calm and unflustered.
What is serene?
A ________________ may have a subject and verb but does not contain a complete thought.
What is a dependent clause?
________ drives the plot and show you who the characters are.
What is conflict
John hears his mother calling to him from the driveway.
What is the resolution?
"You know there’ll be Reverend Chader, Reverend Smith, and Mr. Hall to go with you. It may be that the white ministers will go with you, or they may be waiting at school." The proper nouns in this sentence are:
What are Reverend Chader, Reverend Smith, and Mr. Hall?
"So . . . John thought . . . she wasn’t asleep last night either.Someone had come stealthily to the house to bring his parents word about the National Guard.
Stealthily means _________.
What is to do something stealthily quietly and secretly so no one notices?
As soon as they were alone, he took Audrey’s bare arm in his hand and pinched hard.
The dependent clause is
As soon as they were alone
"The old green couch was really pretty ugly," is an example of an ______________.
What is an oxymoron?
The rising action (when things start to get complicated) of The First Day of School.
What is John worries about the day ahead, but his mother is ignores him?
She went to Joseph P. Gilmore High instead of a random high school.
How many proper nouns are in this sentence?
What is 1?
"As her experienced fingers examined the shoulder of Audrey’s dress they lingered a moment in an involuntary, sheltering caress."
Lingered means __________.
What means to leave slowly or not wanting to go?
As soon as they were alone, he took Audrey’s bare arm in his hand and pinched hard.
The comma belongs after alone because "he took.......hard" is a dependent clause or an independent clause.
What is an independent clause?
"It felt as if I had walked a million miles to school," is an example of.
Hyperbole