Fiction
What is the difference between internal and external conflict?
Internal is inside the character (feelings, actions) and external is outside the character (other people, weather, society, etc.)
How can you identify you are reading a nonfiction text?
Facts, Text Features-photograph, caption, headings, maps, graphs, etc.
What are groups of lines called?
Stanza
How do you know you are reading a drama?
Cast of characters, Scene 1 with stage directions, character's name in bold by the dialogue
This is the FIRST thing you do when you start a new passage.
Expand the text to fullscreen (get rid of the questions)
How do you know when the character is at the climax/turning point?
When they make a change or decision that brings about the resolution.
Write on the board how to annotate nonfiction
Topic, #paragraphs
How do you annotate poetry?
# each stanza, sketch-to-stretch
When the scene changes, this changes.
The setting: time and/or place
How do you annotate Nonfiction?
Topic, #main idea for each paragraph
When there is a point-of-view question, the answer is ALWAYS
The main character who we see the action through their POV
How do you determine the main idea of a paragraph?
Find words or concepts about the topic that are being repeated. NOT the same as the topic
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
Both compare two things, but a simile uses like or as.
If a question is a multiple meaning definition one, what should you always do to figure out the correct choice?
Go back and read how it is used in context. Plug the definitions in to see which one makes sense in context.
How do you annotate Fiction?
Character, setting, conflict (problem), turning point, solution, theme (lesson learned), point-of-view
Most of the plot of the story takes place in this part of the plot chart.
The Rising Action
What are three of the five ways an author can organize a paper (text structure)?
Description, Compare/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, sequence/chronological
When a question gives you a sentence with a type of figurative langugage, what should you try to figure out first?
What the author means by using that figurative language. (ex: what the comparison in the simile and metaphor is, and why the author wrote it).
How do you annotate drama?
character, setting, conflict, climax/resolution, solution, theme (lesson learned)
What should you do first after making your text full screen (hint: headphones)?
Listen to the summary at the beginning of the text.
Write on the board how we annotate fiction
Character, Setting, Conflict, Climax/Turning Point, Resolution, Theme (Lesson learned), Point-of-view
What do you look for in the summary of a text or a section of text?
BME, no details
Poetry has many words that may be unknown to the reader. What are 3 things you can do to figure them out?
1. Break it down into parts: prefix-base-suffix 2. Try do determine what it means in the context it's used 3. Use the online dictionary (but drop the prefix and suffix)
How can you identify stage directions, and name 2 things you can get from them?
italics and in parantheses (), setting, how the character is supposed to talk or move
What do you do if you don't know what a word means?
If it's in a blue box, click on that. If you still need help. use the dictionary.
Bonus: remove prefixes and suffixes from the word you are looking up.