Writing
The first sentence in your introduction
A person, place, thing or idea
Noun
Re
Again
What is another word for "central message?"
Moral, lesson
Function
What something does/the job of something
Name 3 ways to catch your reader's interest in your introduction
Ask an interesting question, share a shocking fact, set the scene ("Imagine you are..")
What is the function of an adverb?
To describe the "how", "when" or "where" of a verb
The word part you can add to the end of a word to change the meaning (verb tense, part of speech, etc)
Suffix
What was the central message of Nasreen's Secret School
Compassion
To care about others
Your focus statement of an opinion essay must have...
Your opinion and 2 reasons why
What is the function of the noun rainforest in this sentence: “The water you drank today may have rained down on the Amazon rainforest five years ago?
It is a place
Uncomfortable, not comfortable
Chimi said the central message is that you must be brave and hopeful for a brighter future even when facing challenges. What are 2 supporting details from the story he could use to back up his answer?
Nasreen and her grandmother challenged the Taliban by secretly going to school anyway.
Nasreen decided to speak again at the end of the story.
Construct
To build
The 2 parts of a conclusion paragraph are
1. Restate your focus statement with new words
2. Call to action
Pronoun
-less
Without (hopeless, without hope)
The central message is something that anyone can learn from a story and apply to their own life. The gist is specifically about what happened in the story.
If condensation is when water vapors turn into water droplets, what does condense mean? What part of speech is it?
To pool together. It is a verb.
Each body paragraph of an essay goes like this..
1. Topic sentence - What are you going to be talking about specifically in this paragraph
2. Evidence from a source
3. Explain the evidence
4. Conclusion about how it ties to your focus statement
Graceful, challenging, beautiful, small, scary are all examples of what part of speech?
Adjectives
Come up with three words using these prefixes, suffixes and root words
un, help, aware, anti, ly, care, fear, est, im, ful, ed, body, intelligent
Unaware, unhelpful, unhelpfully, careful, carefully, fearful, fearfully, feared, cared, unintelligent, intelligently
What is the difference between a central message/moral and the main idea?
Central message/morals are only used in fiction stories. The main idea is used in non-fiction texts and refers to the most important idea.
Circulate
To move around/in a circle/cycle