Numbering paragraphs, reading all the way through, circle unfamiliar words are all the first steps of this reading strategy, and making notes in the margins.
What are some "annotating" strategies that you can use in ELA?
To be important or well-known
What is prominent?
What words best describe Scrooge at the beginning of A Christmas Carol?
angry, melancholy, sad, lonely, grumpy, rude
The technique being used is: Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a synonym for the "lesson" the character(s) of the story learn?
What is a moral?
When something or someone reminds you have of the past.
What is reminiscent?
In Stave I Scrooge does not ___ his clerk, Bob.
What is trust?
What is a theme from the story "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"?
Treasure does not need to have a monetary value
An educated guess made from observations.
What is an inference?
The two gentleman that greet Scrooge go to him to ask for what?
A watery light touched bleak the granite bridge, and white Without the slightest tinge of gold, The city shivered in the cold.
What is personification?
The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught is called what?
What is learning?
The place, time, period, and atmosphere of a story.
What is the setting?
The first ghost that Scrooge meets in A Christmas Carol is who?
Who is the ghost of Marley?
I'm so hungry I can eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole
This is given to see the level of understanding of each student. The best way to prepare is to review class notes and assignments, also paying attention in class.
What is a quiz or test?
Direct words from a passage to prove an answer.
What is textual evidence?
Belle breaks up with Scrooge because he has another "idol". What else does Scrooge idolize over Belle?
What is money?
The clouds floated like pieces of cotton in the sky.
What is a simile?