Texting
A type of informational text that focuses on important events in the past.
What are historical texts?
Figuratively speaking "Like a broken-winged bird."
What is a simile?
The life lesson from a story or poem
What is theme?
Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, & Elena Kagan.
Who are female Supreme Court Justices?
The purpose of informative articles.
What is to educate?
A text that was written at the time of the event by someone who experienced it.
What is a primary source?
"existing in a shell of good white behavior
with my heart a wet-feathered bird"
What is a metaphor?
The narrator is the person speaking from his or her perspective.
What is writing in the first person?
Statement that tells a words meaning.
What is a definition?
In this kind of writing authors may organize their ideas by order of importance.
What is expressing an opinion?
A type of text focusing on topics in science.
What is a scientific text?
An example of this figurative language might include the following: "it learned to walk without having feet."
What is personification?
In this perspective the narrator might reveal the thoughts and feelings of one or all of the characters using pronouns like he, she, and they.
What is third person point of view?
The narrator is the person telling the story.
What is first person point of view?
In this kind of writing, authors may use words sequence words such as first, then, next, and last.
What is explaining steps in a process?
Presents information to show how to do a task or how something works.
What is a technical text?
Life is a barren field
frozen with snow
What is a dream that is gone?
or What is a metaphor?
or What is a line from "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
Another term for perspective.
What is point of view?
When you use words directly from the text to support your explanation, enclose the words in these.
What are quotation marks?
When doing this, writers may arrange their sentences in spatial order.
What is describing a place?
Facts, examples, and expert opinions are examples of this used by good writers to support their points.
What is evidence?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
What happens to a dream deferred?
or what is a simile?
What you read + what you know =
or an educated guess.
What is an inference?
Made wings from found feathers, wax, and thread to escape the deadly maze.
Who was Daedalus?
Writers may organize their writing by first discussing similarities and then discussing differences.
What is comparison and contrast?