Novel Studies Skills
This is the central part of your written response where you argue something.
What is a claim?
This literary genre is created to get you to think differently or learn something.
What is nonfiction?
This character is the head of the Unity House baseball team and Daily Planet Cub reporter.
Who is Jimmy Olsen?
These neighborhoods composed of Chinese immigrants were created due to racism and prejudice against Chinese people in America.
What are Chinatowns?
This story takes place in a city called...
What is Metropolis?
These items are best described as quotes from the text that support your claim
What is evidence?
When a genre is part of a larger genre it is called...
What is the subgenre?
The main protagonist (main character) of our book is....
Roberta Lee
This act passed in 1882 prevented Chinese immigrants from becoming US citizens and barred further Chinese immigration to the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What real life group is the Klan of the Fiery Kross in the text named after?
This practice is helpful to improve your writing after a draft or receiving feedback.
What is revision?
A title that indicates the start of a new section in the text.
What is a subheading?
Who is the Grand Scorpion of the Klan?
Who is Uncle Matt?
What is white supremacy?
The red text bubbles in the story indicate when a character is...
What is speaking Chinese?
This is how you explain why you chose your evidence and tie back to the importance of your claim
What is analysis?
This necessary background introduces your quotes in your written responses.
What is context?
These are the two doctors from Mr. Lee's new job who "welcome" the family to Metropolis
Who are Dr. Wilson and Dr. Jennings?
This hate group came to power in WWII and specifically targeted Jewish people in Germany.
Who are Nazis?
The attitude towards Chinese immigrants in the 1880s is similar to that of whom from our text so far?
Who are Uncle Matt, Dr. Jennings, and Chuck Riggs?
This skill of underlining and highlighting the text helps you generate notes and better understanding of the reading.
What is annotation?
We are reading nonfiction texts with the purpose of doing what....
What is connecting to the text?
This character has a secret identity by day and saves the day whenever he can.
The KKK believes that everyone should worship one God, the Christian god. This idea is called?
What is Christian nationalism?
After trying to defend his friend from bullies and discovering his powers for the first time, Superman learns a sad but powerful lesson on Page 55...
What is not belonging?