Writing 1
Where does the thesis go?
What is the end of the introduction?
What two details do you put in a citation?
What are authors last name and paragraph number?
Define connotation.
What is the feeling behind words?
Define theme.
What is a lesson or moral of a story?
What class are you in?
What is the best class!?
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What is ELA?
How many sources should you include in your essay?
What is two or more?
How many paragraphs do you have to have in an essay?
What is three? Introduction, body, conclusion.
Why do authors use rhetorical questions?
What is to make the audience think about something specific or engage them?
Give an example of a hyperbole.
Dr. Clark will be the judge of this answer.
Which house is Dr. Clark in?
What is Ravenclaw?
Name 4 different elaboration strategies.
What are definition, cause/effect, problem/solution, image, logic/reasoning, etc.?
What transition helps to introduce the counterclaim?
What is some people may...?
Name 4 different text features?
What are titles, table of context, images, graphs, captions, headings, subheadings, index, appendix, or charts?
What are 3 things that can make a narrator unreliable?
What is age, mental stability, or history of lying?
Name 3 stories we have read this year.
What is "The Raven", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Right Sort of Risks", etc.
Is this good elaboration? Explain why/why not.
Evidence: According to “source 1:”60 percent of middle schoolers and more than 70 percent of high
schoolers do not get enough sleep on school nights. Some of their sleep problems can be
attributed to caffeine,”.
Elaboration:A lot of middle school and high school students, around 60% and 70% of
them, don't get enough sleep on school nights. Some of them drink things like caffeine, like
coffee or energy drinks, which can mess up their sleep by making it harder to fall asleep and not
sleep as well.
What is no, it is not? It just repeats the evidence.
Is this good elaboration? Explain why/why not.
Evidence: The lack of sleep caused by caffiene
can lower motivation and your education.
Elaboration:The more caffiene can be considered as a drug.
What is no, it is not? It is not related to the evidence.
What are the 3 types of reasoning?
Which one is not used in speeches?
What are inductive, deductive, and abductive?
What is abductive?
What are the 3 types of irony?
What is verbal, situational, and dramatic?
Name 4 conjunctions.
100 bonus points if you name all of them.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Is this good elaboration? Explain why/why not.
Evidence: It tells “the more caffeinated drinks you
consume, the less likely you are to drink water and the more likely you will get dehydrated”(Paragraph 5,Washington Post)
Elaboration: When you compare water and caffeine products the benefit in water is that you do not get dehydrated than getting dehydrated by a caffeine drink.
What is yes, it is? It compares drinking caffeine to drinking water.
Is this good elaboration? Explain why/why not.
Evidence: As stated in source 1 p5, “the more caffeine you consume, the less water you end up drinking, which can eventually lead to dehydration.
Elaboration: Though if you have been drinking caffeinated beverages for a while then if you were to quit now you would experience some headaches
and some fatigue, as mentioned in source 1 p4.
What is no, it is not? It just adds more evidence.
Name 4 logical fallacies.
What are strawman, hasty generalization, red herring, slippery slope, ad populum, ad hominem, etc.?
What are 2 differences between villanelles and sonnets?
What is villanelles have 19 lines, have strict rhyme schemes, and have repeated lines while sonnets have 14 lines and varying rhyme schemes?
For book titles, do you underline them or put them in quotation marks?
What is underline them?