Theme
What is the difference between theme and central idea?
The theme is the lesson you're supposed to learn, while the central idea is the main idea of the text
What is the Point of View of Fahrenheit 451?
What is third person limited?
Use the poem to answer this question:
Summarize this poem in two sentences
A woman wrote a poem about how ugly her baby is and that she was forced to sell her horrible writting to make money
Rewrite the following sentence for parallelism:
Greg loves to eat at chick-fil-a, shopping, and running.
Greg loves eating at chick-fil-a, shopping, and running.
What do you annotate for in a prose passage?
What is theme and characterization?
How do you determine the theme of a passage?
Any of the following:
observes any changes in the protagonist
analyzes the central conflict and its resolution
notices the title that sometimes contains a clue
realizes that the theme reveals some universal truth about life – a truth which extends beyond one story
What is the difference between third person omniscent and third person limited POV?
What is third person omniscent it the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters, while third person limited is the thoughts and feelings of ONE character?
Use the poem to answer the following:
What is the tension in this poem?
What is the authors feelings towards her writing/ugly baby?
Rewrite the sentence and correct the punctuation:
After going to see Wakanda Forever Ms. Bailes is going to Smiley Thai her favorite restaurant
After going to see Wakanda Forever, Ms. Bailes is going to Smiley Thai, her favorite restaurant
What is the tone of this passage?
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
What is ominous?
What is the theme of the fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"?
People shouldn't lie because then they can't be trusted
How does first person point of view impact the reader?
What is creates a personal connection with the story OR puts the reader in the characters shoes?
Use the poem to answer the following:
What TYPE of figurative language is this poem? Be VERY specific or I will count you wrong
What is extended metaphor?
Write an example sentence using a comma for a subordinating clause.
Answer may vary.
Ex: Before going to school, Ms. Bailes stopped for coffee at Starbucks.
What do you annotate for in an informational passage?
What is key and central ideas?
What is the theme of the fable "The Three Little Pigs"?
Take time to do something right the first time
What impact does second person have on the reader?
What is helps them feel like a part of the text?
Use the poem to answer the following:
Why does the author make the comparison throughout the text?
What is to emphsize how they feel about their writing?
Fix the structure of the following sentence:
Mount Juliet High School is Green Hill High School's rival.
What is "Green Hill High School's rival is Mount Juliet High School."
What do you annotate for in a poem?
What is the theme of the following:
A fly bit a bald man on the head. The man tried to shoo the fly away. But the fly landed on the man’s head and bit him again. This made the man furious. He slapped his head to squash the fly, but the fly few away just before the man delivered a stinging slap to his own head. The fly landed on the man’s head a third time and laughed at him. “You would hurt yourself just to get back at me?” he taunted. The man was so enraged that he tried to hit the fly with a rock. Instead he knocked himself, senseless, to the ground.
Answers may vary
How does the narrator's perspective impact the readers understanding of the boy?
James is the most wonderful son to every walk the earth. Since the moment I gave birth to him, he has never cried or done anything wrong. Everyone else's babies are ugly, but my James is perfect in every way.
What is the mom is biased towards her son? All this information may not be 100% true
Use the poem to answer the following:
How does the speaker's attitude change throughout the poem?
Answers may vary
Fix the following sentence for punctuation and parallelism:
Before running a half marathon it is important to start drinking water stretch and practice that is the best way to prepare.
What is "Before running a half marathon, it is important to drink water, stretch, and practice; that is the best way prepare. "
How do you determine the central idea of a passage?
What is identify the key ideas and combine them into the central idea?