RL/RI 6.1
What is an inference?
Prior knowledge and text evidence.
What is a theme?
A theme is a lesson, moral, or message about life or human nature communicated through a story, is a complete sentence, and must be inferred.
What are the 5 parts of a plot diagram?
1. exposition
2. rising action
3. climax
4. falling action
5. resolution
What is the meaning of the simile?
You're as cold as ice; you're willing to sacrifice our love.
-Foreigner, "Cold as Ice"
The song is about someone who doesn't care.
Which quotation from the passage supports the idea that the prince was stubborn?
The spoiled prince refused to eat until his father gave him the moon.
What central idea does the author convey?
The young prince was greedy and turned his kingdom into monkeys.
How did the young prince's feelings evolve the plot?
In the beginning, he was sad that he did not have everything. In the middle, he was stubborn, and he stopped eating. In the end, he continued to be greedy, and he caused his kingdom to become monkeys.
What does the idiom in the text suggest?
In such an unfamiliar environment, Scott was a fish out of water.
Scott felt out of place.
Which quotation from the passage supports the inference that young prince is not so popular among his peers?
All the children laughed.
What is the theme of the passage?
What is an anecdote?
What does the idiom in this text suggest?
Mr. and Mrs. Kline usually see eye to eye, but not when it comes to the controversial mayoral race.
Mr. and Mrs. Kline usually agree.
Select two details from the passage the support the idea that the king spoiled his son.
1) "My son will die because he is so stubborn," the king told his subjects. "I must get him the moon. We shall build a tower up to the moon, and I will get it down for him."
2) "The King sighed and ordered the tower to be built even higher."
What 4 ways can determine a main idea?
1. Identify the topic using text features.
2. 5 Ws and How
3. First and Last Sentence of the passage
4. Repeated Words
How is the idea introduced in the text?
The author used a misconception or misunderstanding that Earth was the only planet with a moon.
What does the allusion in the text suggest?
A Good Samaritan identified only as Mr. Li captured the world's attention in May 2014 when he rushed across a street in China to catch a baby falling from a window.
The man generously helped a stranger.
What inference is supported by this story?
The young boy was spoiled and caused the entire kingdom to be turned into monkeys.
Which statement summarizes the central idea of the passage?
There are many different types of moons in the solar system.
How did the author elaborate the fact that many moons were discovered in paragraph 1?
The author shared that telescopes were discovered by Galileo.
What does the idiom suggest?
"Speak of the devil!" Sidney declared when Jamie strolled into the room.
Sidney had been talking about Jamie.