Reading
List one type of text structure
Description, Compare and Contrast, Order and Sequence, Cause and Effect, or Problem and Solution
The first paragraph of an essay.
Introduction
What is a simile?
Figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare one thing to another.
Made up of evidence from the text and your personal schema
Inferences
How you should always be writing in your journals
Complete sentences, full paragraph (6+ sentences).
The Museum of Natural History represents what?
Answer varies. To teacher's discretion.
Conflict
Where is the thesis statement usually located?
The last sentence of the introduction.
The lesson that we learn from a story. Give an example.
Theme. The answer for an example may vary.
The overall message of the text, what the text is mostly about
The main idea or theme
What is the main idea of an essay?
Thesis statement
Time or Place where a story takes place
Setting
A skill that includes determining important ideas of a text and combining them to create a shorter statement.
Summarizing
Used to wrap up your paper.
Conclusion
Adventurous, helpful, hard-working, mean, and selfish are examples of what
Character traits