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Vocabulary
Thank You Ma'am
Juvenile Justice
TYM - Skills & Strategies
JJ - Skills & Strategies
100
Circumstance
What is the situation someone is in.
100
Fourteen or fifteen, frail, willow-wild, in tennish shoes and blue jeans.
What are some of Roger's physical traits? (try and use words from the story).
100
The text feature lets you know you are reading an interview?
What are Q&A?
100
Going back in the text and reading again to find information you might have missed.
What is rereading?
200
Commit
What is to do it?
200
When Ms. Jones doesn't call the police on Roger, this tells you she is...
A) Kind B) Mean C) Happy D) Scared
200
The person interviewed who is now currently retired.
Who is Judge Nancy Hoffman?
200
Continuing to read when something doesn't make sense - maybe the author will give more details that will clarify.
What is reading on?
200
Q&A, brackets, ellipses, and background information.
What are the 4 text features in an interview?
300
The result of another action.
What is consequence?
300
Why does Roger try to steal Mrs. Jones' purse?
He wants 10.00 to buy something he wants. 10 point BONUS: What is it that he wants?
300
The text feature that lets you know a word has been added or changed.
What are brackets?
300
Read the following excerpt: "Then is will get washed this evening," said the large woman, starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her. The woman said, "You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong...Are you hungry?" "No,m," said the being-dragged boy. "I just want you to turn me loose." If you didn't understand what Hughes means by "being-dragged boy" what part of the section could you reread to help you understand?
By reading the line, "...starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her" it helps me understand that "being-dragged" is a different way of saying she was dragging Roger up the street.
300
Taking the main points of a story and putting them into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
400
When you understand how someone feels.
What is empathy?
400
What does it say about Roger when he decides to wach his face instead of run when he had the chance?
He has decided to trust Ms. Jones.
400
The text feature that lets you know a part of what the speaker said was left out.
What are ellipses?
400
What does Judge Cordell belive about young offenders?
They should be given a chance to change their lives.
500
To salavage it.
What is to save something?
500
Why does Roger want to say something other than "Thank you, ma'am" to Ms. Jones?
The words aren't strong enough to say how he feels.
500
From the interviews, you can infer that teens who are judged in adult court instead of juvenile court are more likely to
A) Spend a long time in prison B) Get help changing bad behavior C) Make good choices in the future D) Become useful members of society
500
When an author takes time to decribe a character and make that character come alive.
What is characterization?
500
All of the people who were interviewed agree that most juvenile offenders
A) should not go to court at all B) should be sent to prison C) should b judged in adult court D) should be judged in juvenile court