Grammar
All names of people, titles, months, places, etc. need to be ______
capitalized
Do NOT start your essay with a _____________ or use ___ or ____ in your essay unless you are told to do it
question I me
The moon smiled down on me is an example of _____
personification
In "Dear Basketball," _______________ (the writer) used ___________________ when it sounded like he was writing a break up letter to basketball.
Kobe Bryant personification
Name the three parts of this thesis statement
2. Spring Break 1. was lots of fun because 3. I got to see my family and go out and enjoy nature.
1. claim
2. topic
3. points/reasons
Titles of movies, books, websites, newspapers, albums, etc. are put in __________ or _____________ if you are writing it by hand. Smaller things like scenes, chapters, articles, songs, etc. are put in ____________
italics underlined quotation marks
The ____________________ is the most important sentence in your essay because it is the outline for your whole paper. It should have the __________, __________, and ____________ you will use.
thesis statement topic claim points/reasons
I know you have all these figurative language terms memorized because we have gone over them over 9 million times!!!! (This is an example of what?)
hyperbole
Beyonce' said we should all be ___________________ for what we do in life and learn from our ______________ since they make us better and stronger.
accountable failures/mistakes
The difference between middle school and high school for GPA is that in middle school you just need a ____, which is a ____ in everything to pass. To get out of high school, you need a GPA of ________, which is a ______.
1 D 2 C
Explain what this sentence REALLY says the way it is, not what it was probably meant to say:
I don't have no money for that.
It says the person does have money - do not have no money, so has some money.
What word usually comes between the claim and the points in your thesis statement?
because
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."
What two types of rhyme are in this example?
internal - cold and gold
end rhyme - spell and hell
The Little Rock Nine are know for _____
When they did that, the local government _________ and President Eisenhower had to send in the ____
being the first Black students in a White high school in Arkansas.
tried to stop them/worked against them
National Guard/Federal troops
If you use AI or copy from someone else's work, you are guilty of _________________ and will get an __ for your work. You can get even more consequences as you get older including a __________ in school, getting ___________ of school, or getting __________ from a job.
plagiarism F referral kicked out/expelled fired
What are at least 2 of the 3 ways to fix this run-on sentence?
I went to the store with Bob and we bought some candy.
comma before conjunction Bob, and
semicolon ; between sentences with no conjuncton Bob; we
two sentences Bob. We...
Your _________________ should sound like your thesis statement, but shorter.
topic sentences
Alliteration is the same sound at the ___________ of a word and ____________ is the same sound at the _________ of a word.
beginning end
Countee Cullen contrasted ideas on prejudice in "Tableau" and "Incident." In "Tableau," the two boys didn't care ________ and were ___________. In "Incident," the two boys showed _____________ when the one boy tried to be nice and the boy ___________ (you don't have be be too specific)
about being different races friends
prejudice/racism stuck out his tongue and called the boy a nasty name
Explain three things you could do to show the A in SOAR.
say you're sorry if you do something wrong
fix what you did - pick up someone's paper off the floor, give them back what you took, turn in work, take corrections politely, etc.
When pulling exact words from a text, you need to include _________________ and _____________ and put the words in ___________________
author title quotation marks
The point of a ___________________ is to be sure you have all your information together in the right order. You can use it for expository or argumentative essays. However, you use a ___________ only for argumentative essays to figure out which side is ______________
graphic organizer t-chart stronger/better
Gone with giant egos
Gone with muscle cars
Gone with the cruise ships
This is an example of _________
repetition
Nikki Grimes used Paul Dunbar's poem in her poem to contrast her idea that "masks" are __________ because they _______________ where Dunbar said they were ________________ for the same reason.
bad/harmful/hurtful hide real emotions and who you are good/helpful
Name 5 things you shouldn't do in class that students frequently do in classrooms.
Eat, talk, be on electronics, sleep, steal, fight, cheat, ...