Literary Devices
This literary device describes a character in the text/film
What is characterization?
This is the name of the day when we engage in media content
What is Short Film Friday or Media Monday
This is how you should start any response to a question
What is restate the question?
This is the month you will take the ELA regents
What is June?
This is the historical circumstance surrounding our whole class novel
Night - The Holocaust/ WWII/ Hitler's rule in Germany
TCUE - WWII/ Pearl Harbor/ Japanese Internment
This literary device compares two things side by side to highlight their differences
What is juxtaposition?
This is the name of the tool we use to define words
What is a frayer model?
This is also known as a quote
What is text(ual) evidence?
The score you will need to reach in order to pass the regents
What is 55%
This is the genre of the whole class text we are reading
What is memoir/ non fiction/ historical fiction
This literary device means to represent something bigger in the text/film
What is symbolism?
What is EdPuzzle? Youtube also acceptable
These can refer to opinions, interpretations or analysis
What are commentaries?
The ELA regents has this many parts (Bonus 2 points if you can name all 3)
What is 3 parts? (Multiple Choice, Argumentative Essay, Text Analysis Response)
This is the name of our current ELA unit
This literary device highlights a struggle between 2 opposing forces
What is conflict?
These are used when you do not wish to speak or read during class time.
What are skip passes?
This is what the E stands for in R.A.C.E
What is Explain what the evidence means
In Part II of the regents, you will have to read this many texts
What is 4
What is an argumentative essay?
A critique that is made about society and/or people's behavior
What is central idea?
This tool is used to help you stay on track with reading/annotation assignments
What is the reading calendar?
This is how you cite your evidence (describe what you are supposed to write)
author last name, page number in parenthesis
This is how many essays you will have to write during the ELA regents (bonus 2 points if you can name them)
What is 2 (argumentative essay and text analysis)
This is the essential question for our current unit as well as the topic for our summative assessment
What is "What does it take to survive a crisis?"