Fables
What is a Fable?
A fable is a short, fictional story that typically features animals, legendary creatures, or inanimate objects that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities) to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson.
Define Symbolism
This 8-year-old boy is the main character who moves from Berlin to a house near a concentration camp.
who is Bruno
This process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen, fueling life on Earth.
Photosynthesis
What is a Noun
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).
define Anthropomorphism
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
Stories often have conflict. What are the two types of conflict that can happen within a story?
Internal and External
Bruno mistakenly believes the concentration camp is this kind of place.
What is a farm
These blood cells help fight infections by attacking bacteria, viruses, and other invaders.
White blood cells
What is an adjective
Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns. They provide more information about the characteristics, qualities, or state of something. Examples include "big," "small," "blue,"
What is the Purpose of a Fable?
To teach a Moral/Lesson
Define "Mood" when discussing ELA
Feeling created by the narrator’s tone and a story’s setting that affects the reader’s emotions and
state of mind.
This tragic event happens at the end of the story when Bruno sneaks under the fence.
Bruno dies in the gas chamber
Smaller than bacteria, this infectious agent can only replicate inside the living cells of a host organism and is often the cause of colds, flu, and more serious diseases.
What is a Virus
What is a conjunction?
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).
Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Define Duality?
an idea that everything in nature,
both concrete and abstract objects, has a
polar opposite.
The striped pajamas worn by Shmuel and others in the camp symbolize this loss of identity and humanity.
Dehumanization
This organ system includes the heart and blood vessels and is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.
Circulatory System
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
The Honest Woodcutter," tells of a woodcutter who accidentally drops his axe into a river while working and meets a goddess. What was the Moral of this story?
The fable's main moral is that honesty is the best policy. It also suggests that greed and dishonesty will not be rewarded.
A sudden unexpected twist in a story; the totally opposite of what we suspect occurs.
The fence separating Bruno and Shmuel symbolizes this powerful theme, representing both physical and emotional divisions.
What is separation or division?
This green pigment found in plant cells captures sunlight and is essential for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
what is a preposition
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”.