Story comprehension
What is the main character's name in the first story that we read together?
June
What is a word for a soft, quiet kind of singing?
croon
What is this an example of - "You are my sunshine!"?
metaphor
What is the problem with this sentence:
"I have two sister"?
The plural is not formed: "sisterS"
Why will I never respond to you if you send me a message using the Canvas messaging function?
The function is turned off for me - I cannot respond.
Where does June go swimming?
Community Centre
What is a word for a home that bees build for themselves?
beehive
What do you call a little hint the author places early in the story at what is going to happen later?
foreshadowing
What is the problem with this sentence:
"June don't have a dad anymore."?
Subject-verb agreement is not formed:
"June DOESN'T have a dad anymore."
Unless said otherwise, what day of the week is the deadline for homework submissions on Canvas?
Sunday
What is the first argument that June and the Other June have about?
Their names
What kind of activities happen outside the normal timetable?
extracurricular activities
When the reader is led to expect something to happen - and then the opposite happens - what do you call this?
irony
What is the problem with this sentence:
"June is a very shy people."
How many classroom rules are there in Christopher's ERW class?
Two.
What does June call Sundays?
Toosoonday
What is another word for "make", especially when something is made in a factory or by a company?
produce
In STEAL - what does the "E" stand for?
Effect
What is the problem with this sentence:
"In Tuesday, June attended swimming lessons."?
The wrong preposition was chosen: "ON Tuesday, June attended swimming lessons."
On which social media platform is a teacher allowed to be friends with a person who is currently a student at SMIC?
On none.
What is name of the street June and her mother move to?
Blue Hill Street
What is a word for "quietly and as secretly as you can, get out of a place"?
slink
What do you call both an author's construction of believable characters when a story is made and the description of characters when a story is analysed?
characterisation
What is the problem with this sentence:
"June sat in the car when she spotted the Other June."
The tenses don't match: where a longer action is punctuated by a smaller event, the longer action takes the past progressive; the smaller event takes the past simple: "June was sitting in the car when she spotted the Other June."
What is your favourite subject?
ERW