Summary & Theme
What is a shortened version of the story?
A summary
What does compare mean?
To find what is the same about things, people, places, and ideas.
What does the R stand for?
Restate the question by turning it into a statement.
What is a plot?
Events that happen in a story
What is Author's Purpose?
Why the author wrote the book
What is the message or moral in a story?
The theme
What does contrast mean?
Describing the differences between two or more things.
What does the A stand for?
Answer the question.
What is the diagram called that is used to explain a plot?
Plot Hill
A movie is an example of what type of purpsoe?
What should you NEVER include in a summary?
An opinion
What tool do we use to compare and contrast with?
Venn Diagram
What does the C stand for?
Cite text evidence (give examples from the text)
Which stage of the plot introduces the settings and characters?
Exposition
A biography is an example of what type of purpose?
To inform
What is one way to identify the theme?
Find how the characters' feelings or opinions have changed.
Analyze what the characters say or do
Identify what the author teaches you throughout the story.
Find the central idea or big idea
Compare a horse and a giraffe.
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What does the E stand for?
Explain what it means.
Which stage of the plot describes the most exciting part or turning point of a story?
The climax
A commercial is an example of what type of purpose?
To persuade
Name a common theme in fictional stories.
Making good choices
Accepting others
Courage
Honesty
Contrast Math and ELA
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What can we use the RACE strategy for?
It can help create a constructed response to an open ended questions
Name all parts of a plot diagram. (Hint: There's 5)
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Name the 3 (main) reasons an author might write something.
To persuade, to inform, or to entertain.