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Parts of a Story
Watsons Go To Birmingham
Literature Genres
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This is where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
Kenny's little sister.
Who is Joetta?
100
This is what you call writing that is made-up or not true.
What is fiction?
100
This is words or actions that make no sense.
What is nonsense?
100
This is how many book reports you need to have by the end of the year.
What is 25?
200
These are the people (sometimes animals) in a story.
What are the characters?
200
This is the hometown of the Watsons.
What is Flint, Michigan?
200
This genre is usually set in the future and has lots of technology like computers.
What is science fiction?
200
This word means to throw something together without organization or a plan.
What is haphazardly?
200
This is the name of THREE books we have read or are reading in class.
What is any three of the following: Ziggy, Wanted, Watsons, Zoom, Witness to Freedom, anything else that makes sense.
300
This is what you call the most exciting part or the turning point in the story.
What is the climax?
300
This is the relative that lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
Who is Grandma (Ms. Watsons' mother)?
300
This genre is set in historical times and is mostly made up but can have real people as characters and an actual event as the setting.
What is historical fiction?
300
This is to refuse to do business with a place because you disagree with something.
What is boycott?
300
This is where middle school students are taking their end of the year trip.
Where is Washington D.C. and Hershey Park?
400
This is what happens in the story-the action.
What is the plot?
400
This is the name of the road the Watsons are taking to Alambama.
What is Interstate 75?
400
This is a made-up story that is believable and set in the present.
What is realistic fiction?
400
This is a special standing or rank due to a longer time of service.
What is seniority?
400
This is the name of THREE of our Principal's Books of the Month.
What are any three of the following: Pinduli, Letters to a Soldier, Barack Obama, Sit-In!, any other ones that you remember.
500
This is what happens after the climax-the ending of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
The bully that stole Kenny's gloves.
Who is Larry Dunn?
500
This is a folktale that usually has animals as characters and always teaches a lesson.
What is a fable?
500
This is the action of keeping health or clean.
What is sanitation?
500
This is how many days you will take the PSSA reading test
What is 3 days?