Literary Elements
The people, animals, or fictional creatures who take part in the action of a story.
What are characters?
These paragraphs work together to explain the thesis with evidence and supporting details.
What are body paragraphs?
Provides support for the claim. Can include research, interviews, experiments, and facts or figures.
What is evidence?
Someone who tells the story in a text
What is a narrator?
Ms. Force's first name, which you should never call her by!
What is Chelsea?
The time and place of the action in a story. The when and where of a story.
What is setting?
The opening paragraph. This paragraph is critical, because if it does not catch the reader’s attention, they might not read it.
What is the introduction?
Explains why the evidence supports the claim
What is reasoning?
A statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary.
What is a definition?
The website used to check your grades
What is StudentVUE?
The meaning or moral of the story. The central or underlying message.
What is theme?
An attention grabber. It is meant to capture a reader’s interest.
What is a hook?
Acknowledging the opposing viewpoint.
What is a counterclaim?
A word that means the same thing, which can be found in a thesaurus
What is a synonym?
Secrist Middle School's FULL NAME
What is Delbert L. Secrist Middle School?
The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story.
What is plot?
The final paragraph in an essay. Should leave readers with a strong impression.
What is the conclusion?
A debatable thesis that generates responses from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.
What is a claim?
Periods, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks are all examples of this
What is punctuation?
The required supplies at Secrist include.
(At least 4 out of 8 to get the points)
Backpack, 2-inch three ring binder, Dividers (8 tabs), Pencil pouch, Colored pencils, Highlighters (3 different colors), Pencils (5), Student size bottle of hand sanitizer
A struggle between opposing forces. A problem face by the characters.
What is conflict?
Words or phrases that show the connections between details. Sentence that leads into next paragraph.
What is a transition?
A direct response to the opposing side to show how it is wrong
What is a rebuttal?
In this part of a story, conflicts are resolved and the story ends.
What is the resolution?
The Scorpion code includes these four requirements:
What are
Be Positive
Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Ready to Learn