Sentence or Fragment?
Parts of Speech
Plot Diagram
Academic Terms
Friday Warm-Ups Revisited
100

Winter break is three weeks long.

What is a sentence?

100

A word showing action or a state of being.

What is a Verb?

100

The turning point in the story/the point of no return (where the conflict or main problem is solved). 

What is Climax?

100

Clear and reasonable. 

What is Coherent?

100

The reader's feeling about a text.

What is mood?

200

After just a few days.

What is a fragment? 

200

A word that names a person, place, thing, idea, animal, quality, or action. This part of speech also functions as the subject of the sentence.

What is a Noun? 

200

The part of the plot where obstacles stand in the way of the protagonist achieving his/her goal.

What is Rising Action?

200

Delay or prevent. 

What is Impede?

200

The author's attitude

What is tone?

300

Taking a final next week.

What is a fragment?

300

A word that takes the position of a noun.

What is a Pronoun?

300

The part of a story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict. 

What is Exposition?

300

Prove to be right or reasonable. 

What is Justify?

300

The point the author wants readers to remember most.

What is the central idea or the main idea?

400

Semester one is over next week. 

What is a sentence?

400

A word that modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

What is an Adverb?

400

Happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict.

What is Falling Action?

400

Clues from the text plus a reader's knowledge. 

What is Inference?

400
  1. The mood in the following excerpt:

“The man sat at his empty kitchen table to drink a single cup of tea and stare outside the window at the dying tree.”

Answers may vary.

500

The last day of the week

What is a fragment?

500

Name the part of speech. 

Is, was, were, are.

What are verbs?

500

Tying up any loose ends that may be left in the story.

What is the Resolution?

500

Break apart. 

What is Analyze?

500

 The tone of the following excerpt: 

“The park welcomed the children, but like most areas overrun with kids, it was loud and noisy. Plus, there was no place to sit.”

Answers will vary.