Theme
What is theme?
The message for lesson of the story
What is point of view?
How the author tells the story. Either first person or third person.
What is a compound sentence?
Two independent sentences put together using a fanboy.
A good story has all three of these parts.
Begging, Middle, End
The prefix "poly-" means what?
Many
Is the given statement a theme?
"You can make the world a cleaner place"
yes
What is the difference in first person and third person?
First person talks about yourself
Third person talks about other people
How many steps are in the writing process
4
What is an inference?
What the author does not tell you in a story, and you have to come up with using background knowledge and what the story tells you.
What does the word argument mean?
Someone explaining their side using details and evidence.
What is the theme of Marisol McDonald does not match?
Be yourself
What is the task of a narrator?
They tell the story.
How many sentences does it take to make 1 paragraph?
5
What is main idea?
The focus and point of the story
The word observe means to what?
See, search, locate
What is the difference in a theme and a topic?
Theme is the message of the story and topic is just what the story was about.
Usually authors write text to do one of these three things what are they?
Persuade
inform
Entertain
In our informational writing unit we talked about how to locate and find information for our pieces. Give me three examples of good sources to get information from.
Websites, Books, Journals
What is the difference in fact and opinion?
Fact is something that can be Proven!
Opinion is just something you think.
What are context clues?
The words in or around a text that help you understand the word.
what two words did we break theme into so that we could remember what is means?
The Message
In the Story Rosie revere the engineer what point of view was the story told in?
Third person point of view
Turn these words into a conjunction word.
It is.
It's
The end of the year test we all are striving to pass is called what?
ScReady
Read the definition below and give the definition of the bolded word.
The scientist made a really accurate hypothesis on the experiment he performed.
Prediction, Guess what will happen