Theme
What is the message or the lesson of the story called?
What is the Theme?
These two elements are introduced at the beginning of the story to help the reader understand what is going on.
What are characters and setting?
The results of something are explained.
What is Cause and Effect?
The author's feelings about a subject are called what?
What is the Point of View?
What is False?
(Often times when a question uses the word best it means there could be multiple answers that seem correct. You have to choose the evidence that is strongest)
Timmy didn't want to try out for the soccer team because he didn't know any kids at his new school. After trying out and making the team, Timmy met his soon-to-be best friend Walter at the first practice.
Once a story is over and you tell someone the biggest parts of the story from beginning to end, you are talking about the what?
What is the plot?
Information in a passage is organized in order of time.
What is Chronological?
These are the three main reasons author's will write something.
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
What is process of elimination?
What is survival, resourcefulness, and self-confidence?
Which character learns the lesson, or experiences the theme, in a story?
What is the Protagonist
List the five types of text structures?
Chronological (Sequence of Events), Description, Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast, Problem & Solution
A handbook teaching students how to negotiate
What is to inform?
This is combining what you already know with text evidence from the story to make an educated guess.
What is an inference?
True or False. You need to know the Central Idea of a story in order to figure out the theme.
What is true?
This is the problem within the story.
What is the conflict?
Two or more things are described; their similarities and differences are talked about
What is Compare & Contrast?
A children’s book about a cherry pie and an apple pie that overcome their differences to become good friends.
What is to entertain?
What does Mr. Briganti like more, Star Wars or Game of Thrones?
What is Game of Thrones?
Tim hated his old baseball glove. He wanted to play with a new glove, but he didn’t have any money, so he decided to steal it. But when Tim got caught stealing the glove, his parents said he couldn’t play baseball all summer.
If you want something you should work for it.
INCORRECT: You shouldn't steal. That is a detail in the story but not the theme.
List the three main types of conflict.
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Self
Person vs. Nature
Linux and Windows are both operating systems. Computers use them to run programs. Linux is totally free and open source, so users can improve or otherwise modify the source code. Windows is proprietary, so it costs money to use and users are prohibited from altering the source code.
What is Compare & Contrast?
A bookmark by the American Dairy Association listing 10 reasons to drink milk.
What is to inform?
A story about the amount of trash in the ocean and a company figuring out ways to clean it up would be what type of text structure and what type of author's purpose?
What is Problem & Solution and to Inform.