MP #1 Review
The definition of a story.
What is "a description of events and people that the writer or speaker has made up. (Fiction!)" (Close answers accepted)
The definition we learned for the meaning of "theme" as it applies to a story.
What is "A life lesson, meaning, or moral, that someone is meant to learn from a story."
The definition we learned for the meaning of "mood" as it applies to a text.
What is: "The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader. Mood is created by the -Setting -Descriptions -Word Choice" (close answers will be accepted)
The specific perspective of the following sentence (if it is in 3rd person, you must specify which type of 3rd person!):
While walking down the street, you suddenly realize: You still have Goblina's magic beans in your pocket!
What is 2nd person?
The classroom number Mr. Higgins teaches in.
What is room #237?
Mr. Higgins' #1 goal with his classes.
What is "Keep the classroom a safe, welcoming, and respectful environment."
A possible theme from "The Tortoise and the Hare."
What is "Slow and steady wins the race?" (Other possible themes accepted!)
The definition we learned for the meaning of "tone" as it applies to a text.
What is: "A writer’s attitude towards a subject, shown through the author’s -Descriptions
-Word Choice" (Close answers will be accepted.)
The specific perspective of the following sentence (if it is in 3rd person, you must specify which type of 3rd person!):
So Big Business Benji approached me in the morning and complimented the cow-shaped diamond-encrusted pendant I borrowed from my mom's jewelry box. He offered to trade me six magic beans for it! Of course I took him up on his offer, but now I'm headed home and I can't find my magic beans! I don't know what I did with them, but my mom's gonna kill me!!!
(Extra 100 if you can name the type of figurative language!)
What is 1st person?
The names of Mr. Higgins' cats.
What are August and Betty?
The difference between sympathy and empathy.
What is "Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc., sympathy is when you show kindness to someone who is feeling badly." (Close answers accepted.)
The reason someone would be wrong if they said that the theme in "My Ghost Story" was "fear."
What is something like "A theme cannot be one word or topic, it must be a complete sentence describing a lesson to be learned from a story. 'Fear can be disruptive in our lives' is an appropriate theme." Close answers accepted.
The tone the author uses when describing Goblina in the passage below:
Goblina was total genius. Stealing her mom's valuable cow-pendant? There's no way that could have any consequences! Trading that diamond-encrusted gold for some Styrofoam beans? I give her an A+++ for good decision making! Believing Big Business Benji, who everyone knows is only ever interested in making money, regardless of who he hurts along the way? Her best decision yet! Yes, Goblina was as smart as Big Business Benji's beans were magical...
What is sarcastic?
The specific perspective of the following sentence (if it is in 3rd person, you must specify which type of 3rd person!):
Big Business Benji was sitting on a bean-bag chair in his ELA class with Ms. Gooeyloo when his hand touched a tear in the fabric. He dug his hand into the tear and pulled out a handful of the small, foamy, white beans.
What is 3rd person Objective?
The name of the oldest mystery-only bookshop in the world, managed by Mr. Higgins' husband.
What is "The Mysterious Bookshop?"
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
The 6 stages of the plot, in order, with a small description of each stage.
What is: "1. Exposition: we are introduced to the protagonists "normal" life. 2. Inciting Incident: Something unusual happens to kick off the conflict. 3. Rising Action: The conflict grows more complex as new events occur. 4. Climax: The conflict reaches it peak, a turning point in the story. 5. Falling Action: Things begin to settle down and loose-ends are tied up. 6. Resolution: The protagonists "new normal" is established, where we leave things."
The main reason someone would be wrong if they said that the theme in "My Ghost Story" was "Dav should listen to his parents."
What is something like: "A theme must be removed from the word of the story and made universal, so that it can apply to the lives of the readers. 'You should listen to your parents' is an appropriate theme."
The mood of the excerpt below:
The hallway was dark and filled with shadows, but light crept through a crack in the blinds and illuminated the gold, diamond-encrusted, cow-shaped pendant that hung from the dames neck. Big Business Benji saw it, and was swallowed up by greed like it was some kind of giant anaconda. He had to have it--it had to be his--but how?
Answers may vary, if the student can support their answer with credible evidence from the text, they will get the points!
The specific perspective of the following sentence (if it is in 3rd person, you must specify which type of 3rd person!):
"Look at these magic beans I got from Big Business Benji!" Goblina said, thrusting her hand out in front of her, feeling very proud of the deal she made.
"Uhh," her classmate began, suspicious of whether or not Goblina's beans were actually magic, or if Big Business Benji had claimed another victim, "Can I see them?"
"Sure!" Goblina said with a smile as she dumped them in their hand. She was suddenly distracted because Tommy Tomlinson was passing by, and she thought he looked extra cute in his "ESSENTIALS" hoody today.
What is 3rd person Omniscient?
The first name of Mr. Higgins' husband.
What is Ryan?
The French term for the "Falling Action"
What is denoumont?
The theme of the story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the book Mr. Higgins was reading just before winter break.
Answers may vary, but something like "You should treat others with generosity and joy!"
EXTRA TIME!:
A creative student-written sentence about Godzillus using a tone of admiration.
Answers may vary, Mr. Higgins will judge.
The name of the perspective where the narrator switches from character to character throughout the story.
Any of the following answers will be accepted:
What is multiple perspective/point-of-view, or alternating perspective/point-of-view?
3 books that Mr. Higgins has read this schoolyear so far.
(Extra 100 points for each author they can name!)
(Answers may vary, but should include: Interview with the Vampire, Look Both Ways, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, The Talisman, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily, A Christmas Memory, The Santa Klaus Murder, A Christmas Carol, and The Higgsy Chronicles Volumes One and Two.)