Brave Little Toaster
The protagonist of this short story.
Who is Mr. Toussaint?
Using graphics (pictures, charts, graphs, etc.) helps an author of an informational text to do this.
What is "between flowers" or "Internet flowers"?
The argument the author is making in "Heads Up, Humans".
What is automation is eventually going to replace most human workers.
The essential question for Unit 1.
What is "Does technology control or improve our lives?"?
The five stages of plot development.
What are: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
The main points that an author wants to communicate to a reader is also known as this?
What is main idea.
The three different types of irony.
What are situational, dramatic, and verbal irony?
What is the art of using language effectively and persuasively?
What do the letters in "RACES" stand for?
What are restate, answer, cite evidence, explain evidence, and sum it up?
Mr. Toussaint calls any device that isn't "smart" technology this derogatory term.
What is "stupid"?
The distance from which a robotic arm could be controlled by a monkey with a brain implant.
What is 7,000 miles?
Possible responses: technology is taking away from romance; flowers are best given in person
Anything an author uses to support their claim, and can include facts, statistics, quotes, anecdotes and examples.
What is evidence?
The strategy of marking up a text while reading is called this?
What is annotating?
What are some themes that can be determined from this story?
Possible responses: don't depend too much on technology; old technology can still be useful; don't take things from strangers
Where in the body cochlear implants are placed.
What is the ear?
One example of irony from this poem.
The three rhetorical appeals authors use to persuade a reader.
The number of units in our textbook.
What is 6?
The name of the author of this story.
Who is Corey Doctorow?
This is the organizational structure that Naam primarily uses in this text.
What is main idea and supporting details?
"Interflora" is a riff on a sonnet written by this Romantic poet.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Brownign?
Claudia Alarcon quotes which renowned physicist to support her argument?
Who is Stephen Hawking?
This is the highest score you can get for a written response on the MCAP?
What is 11?