Flipped
Born a Crime
Sherman Alexie
Chance
Definitions
100

Bryce's internal conflict in Flipped.

What is Bryce wants Juli to leave him alone

100

Setting of Born a Crime.

What is South Africa

100

Where does Junior and his family live?

What is an Indian Reservation.

100

Define hook.

What is the first sentence of a narrative to make the reader interested/grab the reader's attention.

100

Define incident.

What is the main event of the narrative. 

200

The incident in Flipped.

What is Bryce moves across the street from Juli.

200

Internal Conflict in Born a Crime.

What is why did my mother throw me out of a moving bus? 

200

The incident in Sherman Alexie and Mr. P narrative.

What is finding his mother's name is his math textbook. 

200

List three transitions.

What is Ms. Walsh will check because there are so many examples!

200

Define response.

What is how the character reacts to the incident.

300

The two mistakes in this dialogue. (rewrite the dialogue correctly)


"Well, hello she says to Juli.

What is "Well, hello," she says to Juli. 

300

Reflection in Born a Crime.

What is my mother saved my life.

300

The response in Sherman Alexie and Mr. P Narrative.

What is throwing his textbook at Mr. P.

300

Define sensory details

What is words that appeal to the five senses. 

300

Define reflection.

What is how the character feels years or months after the incident or what the character learns.

400

The two examples of figurative in the passage from Flipped:

I was making this big windmill motion to break away from her, but somehow on the downswing my hand wound up tangling into hers. I couldn't believe it. There I was holding the mud money's hand. 

What is "windmill motion" and "mud monkey"

400

Identify two examples figurative language being used in the following sentences:


"I was a master at Street Fighter.I could go forever on a single play. I'd drop a coin in, time with fly..."

What is hyperboles/personification:

"I could go forever..."

"I was a master"

"Time would fly..."

400

The reflection in Mr. P Sherman Alexie narrative.

What is Junior learns he needs to leave the reservation for a better life. 

400

The definition of reflection in a personal narrative.

What is what the narrator/main character learns by the end of the narrative.

400

Define simile.

What is comparing two unlike things using the words like or as. 

500

The tone of Flipped (Bryce's Point of View) and the tone of Flipped (Juli's Point of View).

Bryce- What is annoyed (or a similar word)

Juli- What is excited (or a similar word)

500

Tone of Born a Crime. 

What is angry; what is confused; what is greatful.

500

The internal conflict in "Why Chicken Means so Much to me."

What is Junior hating his poverty. 

500

List the 4 rules of writing dialogue. 

What is:

1. quotation marks around the speaker's words

2. separate words of speaker with dialogue tag

3. skip to a new line when a new person speaks

4. include punctuation marks before quotation mark 

500

Define personification.

What is giving human traits to objects or ideas.