Grammar
Author's Purpose
Vocabulary
Summarizing
Comprehension
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
Purpose indicated by true facts.
What is to inform or teach?
100
Grasped mentally;saw
What is perceived?
100
Using your own words to describe a story.
What is summarizing?
100
A famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
Purpose indicated by fiction characteristics.
What is to Entertain?
200
Distress.
What is anguish?
200
Using someone elses words as your own.
What is plagiarism?
200
Charlie competed against this animal in Flowers For Algernon.
What is a mouse, or rat.
300
A, An, The.
What are articles?
300
Purpose that makes an effort to get someome to do something.
What is to persuade?
300
Favoring major changed in the social structure
What is radical?
300
The acronym used for summarizing.
What is MIDAS?
300
The place where Hana is traveling to meet her future husband, in "Tears of Autumn".
What is America?
400
An action word.
What is a verb?
400
Abraham Lincoln's birthday is on Febuary 12. He was a great President of the United States. He was our 16 president. He is remembered for freeing slaves.
What is to Persuade?
400
The state of being simple or childlike
What is naivete?
400
Signal words used for summarizing.
What is Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?
400
This kind of animal killed Helen's sister in the story "The Adventures of the Speckled Band".
What is a poisonous snake?
500
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
500
The Underground Railroad was a secret organization which helped slaves escape to freedom. Many slaves were able to escape because of the conductors and station masters. The northern states were free states and slaves were free once they arrived in the North. Secret codes and signals were used to identify conductors as station masters.
What is to inform?
500
Without calling attention to oneself.
What is unobstrusively?
500
A sentence, usually at the begining of a paragraph, that describes what the rest of the story will be about.
What is the topic sentence?
500
The person who saves Agatha from being trapped in a vault, in "A Retrieved Reformation".
Who is Jimmy Valentine?