INFERENCES
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What is Explicit Textual Evidence?
What is what the text says directly? You can point to it in the text. (quotes)
100
What is a narrator?

What is a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

100
What is the proper MLA Header? (write it on the board) 

Name

Teachers Name

Class

Date

100
In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different
What is Compare and Contrast
100
How many siblings does Ms. Simmons have?
What is seven?
200
What is an inference?
What is taking the information you already know (background knowledge) and the information presented to draw a conclusion. 
200
Define Main Idea/central idea
(answer varies)
200
Fill in the blank:


Paragraphs are to stories/passages as _______ are to poems.

What is Stanzas
200
What is the method that is used to respond to constructed response prompts? Explain all parts of the method
RAPP Method


R- Restate the question

A- Answer the question

P- Prove your answer using textual evidence

P- Proof read your writing

200
What is Ms. Simmons' favorite food?
What is Mac & Cheese?
300
FREE SPACE!
FREE SPACE!
300
What is a theme or theme statement? What are two things a theme statement does not include?
What is the overall lesson of a story. Not specific and can be applied to anyone. Does not include character names or plot details. 
300
What is the Climax of a story?
What is the The peak point or the highest point in a story? Conflict is at its highest point. The natural state of order is disturbed. 
300
What parts of an essay include topic sentences?
What is the body paragraphs?
300
What is Ms. Simmons favorite color?
What is orange
400

Our family raises honeybees. This spring one of our ten hives was destroyed. Recently, a bear was sighted in our neighborhood.

**What can you infer about the ten destroyed hives?

What is the bear destroyed the hives?

400
What are three strategies that we can use to help us define unfamiliar words as they are used in text? 
What is context clues, prior knowledge, connotation, and denotation. 
400
What do we learn in the exposition of a story?
What is setting, characters, a general idea of the topic?



400
This part of the essay leaves a reader with a lasting thought. (be specific) 
What is the last two sentences of the conclusion?
400
The city and state that Ms. Simmons came from before coming to Cousins?
What is Charlotte, North Carolina?
500

Jenna was shocked when she opened the door to her apartment. There were long rips in the couch, as though someone ran knives down the front of it. A lamp was shattered on the floor. The picture frames were hanging crookedly, some of them had fallen off the wall completely and the door to her cat's travel cage was open. Not only that, but the door to the birdcage was swinging back and forth and there were feathers on the floor. She swore that she had locked her cat in the travel cage before she left for work. At first Jenna thought it might have been burglars. Oh no, she thought. Someone broke into my apartment, trashed the place, and stole my cat! Then she heard the cat meowing in her bedroom. She ran to the bedroom and saw the cat patting one of Jenna's favorite shoes with its claw. "That's it!" Jenna yelled. "I'm done with this." Then she threw the cat back into its travel cage and tried to shut the door, but the lock wouldn't catch. Jenna huffed and then grabbed some duct tape.

**Why is there an empty birdcage in Jenna's apartment? 




What is Jenna's cat ate the bird?

500
When do we use the TACT method? Draw and label a TACT sheet on the board.
(answer varies)
500
On the board, draw and label the main components of a plot diagram (the witch's hat)
(answer varies)
500
How do you start and essay? What are the best ways to begin an essay?
What is a hook? The best hooks are questions, facts, powerful quotes, or scenarios 
500
What is the name of Ms. Simmons' dog?
What is Kobe