Citing Textual Evidence
What is our Wednesday bell ringer (start to class) called?
Writing on Wednesday
What is one of Ms. Clare's classroom rules?
Any of the 4 above the smart board
Inference?
Using the text and prior knowledge to draw a conclusion or make a prediction?
What is personification?
Giving human-like qualities to something not human
What does evidence mean?
Something that acts as proof
What is the central idea of a text?
What the text is mainly about
What is the denotative meaning of a word?
The definition in the dictionary
"The test was more difficult than I thought... I was in hot water." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?
Idiom- "I was in hot water"
What does it mean to cite evidence?
To provide actual quotes from the text to prove your answer is correct
What does an author use to develop their central idea?
DETAILS
What is the connotative definition of a word?
The feelings surrounding the word
The snow is a white blanket. What figure of speech does this sentence use?
Metaphor. Comparing the snow to a blanket
Why do you cite textual evidence?
To prove your answer
What does it mean to provide a summary of a text?
To put it into your own words
What is an idiom?
A commonly used expression that is not literal in meaning
When do you use context clues?
When you don't know the meaning of a word or phrase
What does it mean to draw an inference?
To make an educated prediction based on information from the text and prior knowledge
Name one thing you've enjoyed doing in this class so far!
Any answer
What is a metaphor?
What does it mean to use context clues?
When you use the words surrounding a word/phrase to determine the meaning of the unknown word