Keeping it Short
To discover the setting, characters, or conflict of a short story, you should look here.
What is the beginning (or exposition) of the story?
When trying to define an unfamiliar word, it helps to look at the _____ clues, or the words found around the word you do not know.
What are the context clues?
If the narrator is IN the story and reveals his or her thoughts and feelings, it is written in the ____ _____ point of view. (Hint: He will also use the pronoun "I")
What is first person?
The correction needed in this sentence:
To reflect means to stop and think about the story and it's effect on you.
What is change it's to its?
A type of writing meant to be performed in front of an audience
What is drama?
A caterpillar ______, or changes, into a butterfly.
What is transforms?
In this section of a story, obstacles are introduced and the conflict gets more complicated.
What is the rising action?
A list of words and definitions often found at the end of a story or book. Similar to a dictionary.
What is a glossary?
Every story must have a problem, or ______. This can be external or internal (or both!)
What is conflict?
The correction needed in this sentence:
Whose candy is this? May I have it?
What is No Change Needed?
The written form of a play
What is the script?
If you take content and make it easier, you _____ it.
In math, you _____ a fraction dividing the top and bottom numbers by their biggest shared common factor.
What is simplify?
The turning point of a story
What is the climax?
In order to give credit to an original source, you should state that the information is based on, or ________ to, a particular book, website, or article.
What is according?
To understand the conflict, you need to decide if it is _____ (inside the character's head) or external (with another character).
What is internal?
The correction needed in this sentence:
Its important to stop and clarify if you are confused about something when you are reading!
What is change its to it's?
The person who writes the play
Who is the playwright?
In reading, we ______ (or take a closer look) at a story to understand the plot and the theme.
What is analyze?
What is the falling action?
This is another word for notetaking. It is what we do when we create "4 squares" and jot down the important details of the story.
What is annotate or annotating?
When reading a story, try to see how the main character, the "good guy," the ________ grows and changes.
Who is the protagonist?
The correction needed in this sentence:
We went to there house yesterday to swim and eat pizza.
What is change there to their?
Instructions for the cast and crew, usually written in parenthesis and italics and not meant to be read aloud
What are stage directions?
Informational texts can be written using different text ________. They may be "built" by comparing/contrasting ideas, describing in detail, or explaining what happened in chronological order.
What are structures?
(or text structures)
If you are asked how the conflict is resolved, look here
What is the end, or resolution, of the story?
After reading, it is good to stop and _______. This means that you think about the story, its themes, and how it effects you personally.
In science, you might say that light _____ when it bounces off a surface instead of being absorbed.
What is reflect/reflects?
When you finish reading, hopefully you can identify the _____, or the lesson learned, of the story.
What is theme?
The correction needed in this sentence:
They're is an urban legend that says a ghost lives in the hallways of Blue Ridge High School.
What is "change they're to there"?
When the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not
What is irony or dramatic irony?
When conducting research, you need to ______ (judge) your sources to be sure that they are ______ (have credit as being reliable/believable).
What is evaluate and credible?