Summer School Unit
Author of "Two Names, Two Worlds"
Jonathan Rodriguez
A specific society that has its own beliefs, customs, ways of life, art, etc.
Culture
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
Inference
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
This person created Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg
Paraphrase a story or poem we have read this summer
answers vary
Identifying similarities and/or differences
Compare and Contrast
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
context clues
This describes a noun
What is adjective?
In 2020, the most important social media app for teens (ahead of TikTok)
Snapchat
Author of "A Smart Cookie" and "Mango Says Goodbye"
Sandra Cisneros
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
annotate
What the author wants the reader or character to learn in the story
Theme
A word that describes action or a state of being
Verb
This is the most popular sport in America
Football
What is the theme of the story, "Fish Cheeks"?
Don't be ashamed of your culture.
Your only shame is to have shame.
Words that mean the same as others are called
Using words from the text to support your answer
Citing evidence
A word that can replace a noun in a sentence
Pronoun
This is the number of Harry Potter movies
8
What was the essential question
OR
Name a guiding question of our summer school unit
Essential Question:
How does culture and identity affect personal choices?
Guided Questions:
1. How do we define identity, culture,and their elements?
2. How are personal choices influenced by culture or identity?
3. What may be the consequences (effects) when people make choices contrary (opposite) to their cultural backgrounds or identity?
4. Why do people need to affirm their own identity and respect that of others?
A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Shame
The mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel
Tone
Label the parts of speech in this sentence
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
nouns- Ms.Crook, today, makeup , her (pronoun)
verbs - is , is , dressed
adverb - fabulously
adj - beautiful
conjunction- and
Uses the simile 'My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends' in one of her songs.
Who is Billie Eilish?