I'm Moody
Emotions someone experiences that are directly related to the text they are reading.
What is mood/atmosphere?
What is an inference?
This is the theme of "The One Who Watches."
What is don't let others influence you to make decisions you know are wrong?
This is what a context clue is.
What is using words around an unknown word to determine meaning?
This is the term for the initial conflict in a story that causes everything else to go wrong.
What is the destabilizing event?
The emotions an author/artist experiences toward their characters, subject matter, or audience.
What is tone?
These are the two components to an inference.
What are prior knowledge/personal experience and text evidence?
This is the main idea of Nixon's resignation speech.
What is Nixon is resigning for the interest of the country?
This is what commendable means in the following sentence:
Check on your pup--see if I don't do a commendable job on it.
This is the destabilizing event in Nixon's presidency and potential impeachment.
What is the Watergate scandal?
This is the tone of the poem "Dusting" by Julia Alvarez.
What is determined?
What is an unstable environment?
What is the theme of "The Road Not Taken?"
What is our choices are meaningless until we assign them meaning?
He was later pardoned by Gerald Ford, his former vice-president and successor in office.
This is the destabilizing event of "Playing God."
What is Josh finding the box of puppies?
What is worried?
Frost implies this when he says two different things happened in the woods.
What is he will lie about his experience?
This is the theme of "Playing God."
This is what affirming means in the following sentence:
...let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping...
What is agreeing?
This is the destabilizing event of "TLA."
What is the car accident?
This is Nixon's mood/attitude in his resignation speech.
This is what the speaker of "The Road Not Taken" implies when he says "I took the one less traveled by,/and that has made all the difference" even though both roads were the same.
What is we give meaning to our choices?
This is the theme of "Dusting."
What is we don't have to be our parents?
This is what congestion means in the following sentence.
The others talk with their noses way up in the air, sounding like they have a little congestion.
What is a stuffy nose?
This is the destabilizing event of "The One Who Watches."
What is Yolanda and Doris skipping school?