Vocabulary
Theme definition
What is a lesson learned from the story.
Theme? One winter a monkey found a snake that was stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion for the snake, so he put it in his bosom. The snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit the monkey, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
What is don't be naive and use good judgment.
What is According to the text...the article states?
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Gray clouds ran a mad race across the sky. The wind howled through the hills, ripping the last of the leaves from the trees. Throughout the morning, the temperature continued to drop, and by noon, the puddles along the road were beginning to freeze over.
What is: It was the first day of winter?
What is relevant or related or connected?
Definition of injustice
What is inequality and lack of fairness?
Some dogs famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river, but it happened that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides.
What is use common sense when facing a problem. What is something things are not meant to be.
Quotation marks are placed around this type of evidence
What is a direct quote?
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If one animal invades another's territory, the first animal threatens it by displaying their teeth or claws. Some try to make their bodies look bigger. Birds fluff up their feathers. Fish stick their back fins straight up and open their gill covers outward. Angry cats arch their backs and make their hair stand on end.
What is When animals are angry, they use different kinds of body language?
Definition of inspire
What is fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative?
Purpose of concluding sentence
What is a sentence that brings closure to a paragraph by restating the main idea?
A monkey put his hand into a jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the cookie jar. Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
What is don't be greedy? What is use patience?
How to avoid plagiarism
What is paraphrase information into your own words or cite information directly?
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Earhart, who was the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, crashed in the Pacific while attempting to fly around the world. Some searchers believe that she survived the crash into the Pacific because radio distress calls were received. An intensive search for the source of the signals was made. Searchers were not able to find her, however. Finally, the distress signals ceased. In spite of continued searches by airplane and ship, no clue to what became of Amelia Earhart has yet been found.
What is The disappearance of Amelia Earhart remains a mystery?
Definition of transformed
What is make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of?
Definition of Tone
What is the the attitude or the feelings the author has towards the subject matter?
Theme? A crow perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly reach it. He tried everything he could think of to get to the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.
What is when facing a problem, keep trying until you solve it? What is don't give up?
What to do after citing textual evidence
What is explain how the evidence supports the claim using at least two sentences.
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Another monster that was equally dreaded by sailors was the beautiful mermaid. Most sailors were convinced that it was very bad luck to see a mermaid. At best, it meant that someone aboard their ship would die soon afterwards. At worst, it meant that a terrific storm would arise, the ship would sink, and many of the crew would drown.
What is Even though mermaids were mythical creatures, sailors feared them?
Definition of constructed response
What is an answer in paragraph form that uses textual evidence and thorough explanation of the answer.
Definition of theme
What is the lesson of the story?
Theme? Kyle liked Lucy more than any other girl in the school, but he had an odd way of showing it. When she walked ahead of him in line, he kicked at her shoe. When she passed him at school, he called her "Lame Lucy." He even wrote a mean word on her homework during the bus ride to school. But what puzzled Lucy the most was receiving an invitation to Kyle's birthday party. Figuring that he was just planning a mean trick on her, Lucy decided not to go, and while Kyle eagerly awaited Lucy's arrival, Lucy talked on the phone to Jacob. When Kyle finally realized that Lucy was not coming to his party, he was crushed.
What is don't be afraid to show your true feelings?
Four rules for citing evidence
What is 1. use quotation marks around explicitly stated information; 2. find relevant evidence; 3. use end punctuation inside the quotation marks, 4. give credit to the source of information.
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Destroying rain forests as far away as Brazil and Indonesia has serious consequences for us all. For example, the world needs trees to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) which is an oderless gas. Rain forests are the "lungs" of the planet. They suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere through their leaves. The trees then "breathe" oxygen back into the atmosphere and pump it with moisture that falls as rain.
What is Rain forests must be protected so that they can protect us?
Definition of topic sentence
What is a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph?