Unit 1:
The Choices We Make
The Choices We Make
A story about your own life told in first-person point of view (I, me, my)
What is personal narrative?
Nonfiction writing that is written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic.
What is informational text?
These describe a story's _______ such as sinister, mournful, angry, or playfu
What is mood?
Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
What is sensory details?
Paul Fisher, the protagonist, plays this specific position on his soccer teams at both Lake Windsor Middle and Tangerine Middle.
What is a goalkeeper (or goalie)?
When readers make notes or highlight important details while reading?
What is annotating?
When evaluating online or print articles, a reader must check this quality to ensure the source is trusted, reliable, and free from bias.
What is credibility (or being credible)?
The strategy that uses two column to record quote and reactions.
What is a doouble-entry journal?
A form of writing whose purpose is to explain or inform.
What is expository writing?
This bizarre environmental hazard is constantly burning underground right behind Paul’s housing development in Lake Windsor Downs.
What is a muck fire?
The first reading that we read as a class this school year.
What is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?
These both mean the most important point the author wants to share about a topic.
What is main and central idea?
To avoid plagiarism, students must do this when using a direct quotation, summary, or paraphrase from a text passage.
What is cite a source (or provide a citation)?
This serves as an original source or first-hand information about the topic.
What is a primary source?
The lie Paul's parents told him his whole life for the reason why he is legally blind.
What is looking directly at a solar eclipse?
In the story "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas, this character refuses to pay the fifteen dollars for Martha's hard-earned jacket, stating that a scholarship jacket shouldn't cost anything.
Who is Martha’s grandfather?
The author uses these 4 methods of text features to easily find key information to understand the main topic.
What is organizing features, text divisions, graphics, and special formatting?
Two different elements of characterization.
What is actions, appearance, thoughts, what the charcater says, and what others say about the character?
The overall feeling or emotion of a story.
What is mood?
Paul's brother Erik is the star of this high school football obsession that their father is completely consumed by.
What is the "Erik Fisher Football Dream"?
This strategy uses marking the text with symbols to reflect the thinking you are doing as you read
What is metacognitive markers?
The five steps of the research process.
What is identifying the topic, write questions that can be answered through research, find sources to collect your answers from, gather evidence, and draw conclusions?
The four different conflicts type that happen in "Tangerine."
What in individual vs self, man vs man, man vs nature, and man vs society?
A recurring element, image, or idea that has symbolic significance in a work of literature.
What is motif?
This character hits Luis in the head with a club-like weapon called a blackjack. The hit triggers an aneurysm that kills Luis.
Who is Arthur?