GRAMMAR GROWTH
This is who or what a sentence is mostly about.
What is a subject?
The destination Anne-Marie and her mother were helping Ellen's family (The Rosens) escape to by boat in Number the Stars.
What is Sweden?
This many paragraphs should have been written in each essay you were assigned this year.
What is five?
This person solved the mystery in The Red-Headed League.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
A nonfiction genre that is a factual retelling of a person's life.
What is a Biography?
This part of speech describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
The person Maniac brought to the McNab home for the birthday party in Maniac Magee.
Who is Mars Bar Thompson?
This was the essay about a personal experience in your life.
What is a personal narrative?
The three characters that were brought to life in A Christmas Carol: Characters Live.
Takes place in the past with settings and events that are based on facts.
What is Historical Fiction?
This is a word that connects two independent clauses together and makes a compound sentence.
The real name of Freak in Freak the Mighty.
What is Kevin?
This essay should have educated your reader on a specific topic.
What is an informational essay?
This person murdered the Old Man in The Tell-Tale Heart.
Who is the Caretaker?
A fiction genre in which the plot revolves around solving a crime or uncovering the cause of a puzzling event.
What is a Mystery?
This is a sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
The two forms of transportation that Max & Rachel (Worm) took to get to Chivalry, Montana in Max the Mighty.
What is BUS (Dippy Hippy) & Train (Hobo Joe)?
Every essay should begin with an _____________ and end with a ______________.
What is an introduction and a conclusion?
This ended up being the thing to destroy the Martians in The War of the Worlds.
What is germs?
This genre uses scientific facts and technological developments to imagine a world that doesn't yet exist.
What is Science Fiction?
This type of clause cannot stand alone as it's own sentence.
What is an dependent clause?
Roy, Beatrice, and Mullet Fingers work together to save this animal in the novel Hoot. (Make sure you have the exact name of the animal)
What are burrowing owls?
The 4th paragraph in an argument essay in which you argue against the main point of the opposing side is called.
What is a counterclaim?
Sam's (modern day Hercules) real job in Hercules in the 21st Century.
What is an Emergency Medical Technician?
A nonfiction text that presents information in an accurate and organized way. The information presented is often on a single subject.
What are Informational Texts?