TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
THEME
VOCAB
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
100

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?

100
A lesson the author wants the reader to learn. ie. Don't judge a book by it's cover
What is theme?
100

To be important or well-known

What is prominent?

100

What words best describe Scrooge at the beginning of A Christmas Carol?

angry, melancholy, sad, lonely, grumpy, rude

100

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?

200
Words around another word that can help you figure out the meaning of the word.
What are context clues?
200

What is a synonym for the "lesson" the character(s) of the story learn?

What is a moral?

200

When something or someone reminds you have of the past. 

What is reminiscent?

200

In Stave I Scrooge does not ___ his clerk, Bob. 

What is trust?

200
The lake waves were flakes of red gold.
What is a metaphor?
300
Used around textual evidence to show that it's the author's words and not yours.
What are quotation marks?
300

What is a theme from the story "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"?

Treasure does not need to have a monetary value

300

An educated guess made from observations.

What is an inference?

300

The two gentleman that greet Scrooge go to him to ask for what?

What is donations and money for the "poor and destitute."
300

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?

400
Using a mixture of the author's words and your own to prove an answer.
What is paraphrasing?
400

The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught is called what?

What is learning?

400

The place, time, period, and atmosphere of a story.

What is the setting?

400

The first ghost that Scrooge meets in A Christmas Carol is who?

Who is the ghost of Marley?

400

I'm so hungry I can eat a horse. 

What is a hyperbole

500
Making notes while reading to help with understanding and answering questions.
What is annotation?
500

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?

500

Direct words from a passage to prove an answer.

What is textual evidence?

500

Belle breaks up with Scrooge because he has another "idol". What else does Scrooge idolize over Belle?

What is money?

500

The clouds floated like pieces of cotton in the sky. 

What is a simile?