Skills #1
This is hints in the text that help determine the meaning of the word.
Context Clues
What is the main purpose of summarizing a text?
To condense down to its important details.
What is the general structure of an argument?
The claim and support for the claim.
Put a spring in your step! In which Olympic sport might you see a Rudolph or a Randolph performed?
Trampoline
What is the first rule of Fight Club?
Definition, comparison and contrast are all examples of what?
Context Clues
How is summarizing different from paraphrasing?
Summarizing condenses, paraphrasing restates
In an argument, errors in logic, misleading or false statements or persuasive techniques are all examples of what?
Logical fallacies.
The video game franchise developed by EA Sports titled NCAA Football (last released in 2014) had what man's name included in the game title for its first two iterations?
Bill Walsh
In what 2002 Oscar-winning crime thriller classic did Denzel Washington play a villain?
Training Day
Knowing the BLANK can help reader infer the meaning of a word based on the overall topic.
Genre
This is the pattern formed by the rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem.
Rhyme scheme
Attacking a person's character instead of addressing their claim is an example of what fallacy?
Ad hominem.
Alongside the athletes it honors, the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame has also inducted notable events. The Iditarod, the Great Alaskan Shootout, and the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic are all in the Hall. An annual June event that requires competitors to build their own vehicle was recently inducted. The event has been won multiple times by Harold Attla. What is the event?
Yukon 800 Marathon
What is the piece Lydia Tár aims to conduct as a career-high achievement in Tár?
Mahler's Symphony No. 5
This is the organizational pattern authors use to present information in nonfiction.
Text Structure
This is the plural form of the word medium.
Media
How does avoiding logical fallacies improve the strength of an argument?
By eliminating misleading and false statements
The very first MLB game played at night happened under the new lights of what Cincinnati stadium on May 24th, 1935?
Crosley Field
Ke Huy Quan made his first appearance in what 1984 movie?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Explaining how or why something happened is an example of WHAT kind of text structure?
Explaining how or why something happened.
How does translating a story from one medium to another affect it?
It changes the dialogue
What can print or digital resources provide you when you come across an unfamiliar word?
The definition, part of speech, pronunciation, and origin of the word
The Suzanne Lenglen Cup is the official name of the trophy awarded to the female winner of which tennis Grand Slam event?
French Open
Who did Oscar nominee Bill Nighy play in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
Davy Jones