Authors
The name of our visiting author this year.
Matt Smith
Readers often do this at the start of a book, chapter, or passage.
Make predictions
A type of figurative speech used for noises like Baaa or Crash!
Onomatopoeia
The month we finished learning how to read informative texts for type of structure used.
May
Number of UN Sustainable Development Goals
17.
The author of The Island
Armin Greder
Events, images, or words that repeat
What is Again and Again?
(reading signposts - fiction)
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
A metaphor
(a simile uses like or as)
December
Parts of culture that are immaterial but are passed down across time like skills, knowledge, etc.
Intangible Cultural Heritage
The author of one of our book club titles, previously featured in a MS play, and set in Malaysia.
Hanna Alkaf
Use of language that leaves no doubt about a situation or event, perhaps exaggerates or overstates a case.
Extreme or Absolute Language.
(reading signposts - nonfiction)
The three rhetorical devices used in writing, in particular speeches.
The month we finished our Speak Out Persuasive Speeches
March
The Hierarchy of Needs was created by
Doctor Maslow
The name of the writer who wrote the original "Where I'm From" poem
George Ella Lyon
This signpost is found in both fiction and nonfiction texts.
Contrast and Contradictions
Visuals make use of this technique a lot, but different cultures may interpret the meaning differently.
Color
The month we wrote our "This I Believe" personal narrative stories.
November
Number of levels on the Pyramid of Hate
5
In unit one, the name of the short story by Amy Tan. The story was about a girl and a boy she liked coming over to her house for a festive dinner.
Fish Cheeks
A quick strategy to help you figure out what information you should take notes on.
a feature of a visual text which the audience's eyes will follow a path towards when viewing the image
Vectors
Ms. Giroux's birthday month
August
How our identities have overlapping elements (race, ethnicity, income) and how these parts of people's identities give some power/privilege and others oppression.
Intersectionality