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We consider both of these throughout a unit, as they relate to the unit's overarching theme or focus.
What are Essential Questions?
100
This is a writer’s (or speaker’s) attitude toward the subject and it is conveyed through their choice of words and detail.
What is tone?
100
This is expressing related ideas in the same grammatical form. When it occurs in sentences, a writer's words sound clear, balanced, and even powerful.
What is parallel structure?
100
This author wrote about farm life and the New England landscape. Their apparently simple poems have many layers of meaning.
Who is Robert Frost?
100
A conditional statement in an argument generally suggests this rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
200
We look at these at the beginning of every activity because they explain how each is connected to the common core state standards.
What are Learning Targets?
200
A short story, whether fiction or nonfiction, is a form of this.
What is narrative?
200
This refers to rules for the construction of a sentence. It's Greek prefix means “together,” and the root means “order” or “arrangement.”
What is syntax?
200
This author started writing short stories while in jail for embezzlement.
Who is William Sydney Porter, or O. Henry?
200
When President Obama tells America's school children that he has "given a lot of speeches about education," "talked about responsibility a lot," and "talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students," he is attempting to establish this.
What is ethos/credibility/trustworthiness?
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Every activity offers a list of these, which are the various tools students have at their disposal to perform a given task.
What are Learning Strategies?
300
This is the distinctive way a writer uses language, characterized by elements of voice, organization, and so on.
What is style?
300
This is two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction—and, or, but, so, or yet. Its parts —called independent clauses—can also be joined by a semicolon.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Poe's story of revenge takes place on this day of the week.
What is Tuesday?
300
This Greek philosopher defined rhetoric as the art of seeing the available means of persuasion.
Who is Aristotle?
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Each unit contains two of these, which require students to apply their knowledge of content and ability to perform skills developed throughout the curriculum.
What are Embedded Assessments?
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This is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work, the effect of the words on the audience.
What is mood?
400
These join what could be two independent clauses. Writers often use them to suggest a close relationship between the two clauses—closer than would be implied if they stood as separate sentences—and to create a longer sentence.
What are semicolons?
400
A theme of this author's story could be that there is an undeniable gap between the rich and the poor.
Who is Liliana Heker?
400
This type of evidence uses a “what if” or possible scenario in order to challenge the audience to consider its implications.
What is Hypothetical Case?
500
This is the term SpringBoard uses for the tool used to assess students' performance on a given unit Embedded Assessment.
What is Scoring Guide?
500
This refers to the circumstances or conditions in which a thing exists or takes place. Knowing it helps you understand a novel or situation better.
What is context?
500
These are word pairs used to join sentence parts. Sentence parts joined by these should be grammatically parallel.
What are correlative conjunctions?
500
This author introduces the audience to his title character through a first person narrator who is left in "unquiet darkness."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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This is the type of rhetoric that focuses on the future.
What is deliberative rhetoric?