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The central, or most important, idea in a paragraph.
What is main idea?
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
An action word.
What is a verb?
A describing word.
Can easily give teachers headaches.
Who are middle school students?
To communicate (a message or information).
What is convey?
The main point that the author is making.
What is central idea?
A close examination of sections of various writings.
What is an analysis?
A rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.
What is paraphrase?
Makes teachers age quickly.
Who are middle school students?
Refers to persuasion based on the credibility or authority of the speaker.
What is ethos?
A quality that evokes pity or sadness.
What is pathos?
Fully stated.
What is explicit?
A statement that asserts something to be true.
What is a claim?
The awkward age.
Examples are: chronological/sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, and description.
What is text structure?
The author's intent on writing something.
What is author's purpose?
The fact or condition of being responsible.
What is accountability?
The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something.
What is responsibility?
Think that they are the coolest.
Who are middle school students?
May be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is.
What is fallacious reasoning?
Making a probable conclusion from what you know.
What is abductive reasoning?
The process of drawing a conclusion based on premises that are generally assumed to be true.
What is deductive reasoning?
A type of logical thinking that involves forming generalizations based on experiences, observations, and facts.
What is inductive reasoning?
Their phones are always attached to their hips.
Who are middle school students?