Prefix/Suffix
What is a prefix?
Letters added to the beginning of a word to change/modify the meaning
What is a Central Idea?
What the text is mostly about
Who Killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Why were Greg and Maura rivals in the story Lunch Money?
They had competing lemonade stands, Maura was stealing Greg's ideas.
Full Contact argued that children should not play football because of the potential for what injury?
Concussions
What is a suffix?
Letters added to the end of the word to change/modify the meaning
List 2 things you should include in a summary.
Central Idea
Key Details
Impact Statement
Why was Lincoln assassinated?
wanted to avenge the South
Upset about free slaves
What crime did Frank Bourassa commit?
Counterfeiting money
Based on Survival of the Cutest, what is an example of a keystone species?
Bees
What does the word unwelcome mean?
Not welcome
What are the 3 types/categories of an author's purpose?
Persuade, Inform, and Entertain
In Life and Death of a Dollar Bill, what happens after money is printed?
It is transported in secure trucks to Federal Reserve Banks.
The Segment “On the Front Lines” gave information about what epidemic/disease?
Ebola
What suffix do you add to a verb to make it a person
-er
-or
What are context clues?
When you use the words/phrases around the problem word in order to understand its meaning.
What was the name of the seamstress and friend of Lincoln's Wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, who wrote a memoir about the aftermath of his assassination?
Elizabeth Keckley
Why is counterfeit money bad for the economy?
It creates inflation
In Freedom Writers, teacher Erin Gruwell has her students read the Diary of _____________
Diary of Anne Frank
What suffix do you add to a verb in order to make it a noun. Meaning the act of doing something.
-tion
-ation
List 2 types of text structure.
(There are 5)
Compare and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Problem and Solution
Sequence
Central Idea and Key Details
What was the name of the theatre where Lincoln was assassinated?
Ford's Theatre
What was the name of the Bronx school gardening program called?
The Green Bronx Machine
The segment “History in Black and White” talks about the life of which Congressman?
John Lewis