8th Grade ELA
Author of "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
words that mean the same as another are called
What is synonym?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
This person created Facebook?
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Paraphrase a story we have read this year
answers vary
Having just enough, but not too much.
What is sufficient?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What is context clues
This modifies a noun
What is adjective?
In 2020, the most important social media app for teens (ahead of TikTok)
What snapchat?
What are the two requirements when it comes to a theme statement
What is acute?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
what does the TPCASTT acronym mean
title
paraphrase
connotation
attitude
shift
title again
theme
This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when
What is a preposition?
This is the most popular sport in America
What is Football?
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
denotation is the dictionary or literal definition
connotation is the feelings behind a word
Extremely bold or aggressive
What is audacity?
The purpose of analogies are
What is to connect something difficult to understand to something most people understand
A word that describes action or a state of being
What is a verb?
This is the number of Harry Potter movies
What is 8?
Name 5 genres we have read this school year
answers vary
someone who is insane or mentally unstable (Sorry Wrong Number )
What is neurotic
Describe the three different types of leveled questions
Level 1 can be found in the text, level 2 requires an inference and Level 3 is thematic or beyond the text
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 metaphor 'My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends' in one of her songs.
Who is Billie Eilish?