This might include a statistic or fact, a quotation, or a short, interesting personal story.
What is an attention grabber?
100
The Meaning Maker strand on the reading rubric addresses this type of meaning.
What is implicit meaning?
100
Your opinion statement in argumentative writing. Essentially, a thesis.
What is a claim?
100
These are examples: chronological order, written like a diary, each chapter written from a different perspective
What are text structures?
200
The Giver is an example of this genre
What is Science Fiction?
200
This is a sentence that tells what your entire essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
200
The Code Breaker strand on the reading rubric addresses this type of meaning.
What is explicit meaning?
200
The opinion of the opposition.
What is a counter-claim?
200
A literary term that describes when the exact opposite of what you expect to happen, happens
What is irony?
300
We used literature circles for this, our most recent genre
What is Historical Fiction?
300
This is the type of writing where you will include a claim.
What is argumentative writing?
300
These are words or phrases that move the reader along from one thought to another. They can be found between sentences or paragraphs.
What are transitions?
300
Your "comeback" to the counter-claim.
What is a rebuttal?
300
Realistic setting, realistic characters, realistic dialogue, and realistic conflict are descriptors of this genre.
What is Realistic Fiction?
400
A story about a Native American tribe in the 1800s would most likely fit into this genre.
What is historical fiction?
400
Embedding quotes and providing a thorough analysis are two important skills to show in this paragraph-long written response.
What is a constructed response?
400
This is when you use words around an unknown word in a sentence to help you understand the meaning of that unknown word.
What is using context clues?
400
This includes using statistics and data, quotations, and concrete examples in argumentative writing.
What are ways to support your claim?
400
The proper way to embed this quote:
Ms. Schriner told students do not bring food to class.
What is Ms. Schriner told students, "Do not bring food to class."
500
A literary technique used in Nothing But the Truth that allows the audience to know more than the characters?
What is dramatic irony?
500
Facts and statistics, quotations, and sensory details are examples of good ways to do this.
What is topic development?
500
A group of words at the beginning of a sentence that introduces the rest of the sentence and is followed by a comma.
What is an introductory phrase?
500
The claim in this paragraph:
It is the #1 selling food in the country. People consume it in epic quantities every year across the globe. You can buy it in almost any combination of toppings that you desire. These are just a few reasons why pizza is the best food ever.
What is "These are just a few reasons why pizza is the best food ever."
500
These are the four elements of science fiction.
What is futuristic/parallel world as setting, scientific/domain specific vocabulary, comment on society, and interactions with biology, technology or aliens.