Themes
Characters
Analogies
Vocabulary
Reading
100
Before we establish a theme, we need to come up with this?
What is an idea?
100
This Character did not take responsibility for his own actions and always blamed others...even if they were not real people.
Who is Romeo?
100
This character talks about the unimportance of a name, "A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
100
This means being susceptible or capable of being injured or harmed - It starts with the letter V.
What is vulnerability?
100
This is how we find out a word we don't know without a dictionary.
What is reading in context?
200
Similar interests that allow people to come together to face adversity, is one of the key themes in this source.
What is, Remember the Titans?
200
This person's inability to accept a reality inhibited her from being able to better her life.
Who is Melinda Sordino?
200
This character relates their team name to how the original Titans overthrew all of the Greek gods and that they now have to do the same.
Who is Coach Boone?
200
This means taking great care and paying attention to the most minute and small details - It starts with the letter M.
What is meticulous?
200
This is when we use the information present in a source to help identify underlying or unspoken thoughts and feelings.
What is inferring.
300
In order to move forward, one must first acknowledge that something is wrong, is one of the key themes in this source.
What is, Speak?
300
Right from the beginning, this character was able "to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him"
Who is Coach Boone?
300
Coach Boone used this analogy while they were at football camp and he took them to a cemetery to show their fate if they did not change their thinking.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
300
This means that someone is showing a disbelief in something that has happened or in what someone is saying. It starts with the letter I.
What is incredulous?
300
These are the describing words for individuals that help us identify what type of person they are.
What are character traits?
400
The inevitability of a predisposed outcome, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, is one of the key themes in this source.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
400
Charged it the peace of the city, this character was interested in the tranquility between people and did not care about their petty squabbles nor did he take sides.
Who is Prince Esaclus?
400
This character said that a tree needs to have it's infected branches cut off if it wants to survive but didn't know that it also related to Melinda's situation.
Who is Melinda's dad?
400
When someone does something on purpose and often to offend someone else. It starts with the letter B.
What is blatantly?
400
This persuades characters in texts and films to do the things that they do.
What are motivations?
500
It takes the theme that you have identified and presents your interpretation of it while using the text to prove it.
What is the purpose of a thesis statement?
500
This character realized that when he was afraid of one of his teammates, he was only hating his brother.
Who is Gerry Bertier?
500
This character wanted to show someone just how many beautiful people are in their city compared to one girl, "Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow"
Who is Benvolio?
500
When something or someone is not able to be caught or an idea that cannot be grasped or understood. It starts with the letter E.
What is elusive?
500
This is the life-lesson or moral of the story that is inferred from the texts that we read and view.
What is theme?