I Love Drama!
What genre is a play/drama?
Fiction
1. How many paragraphs are in an essay?
2. In which paragraph is your thesis in?
4
1
The events that make up the main part of a story.
Plot
(1) The STAAR test is tomorrow. (2) I'm ready to show all that I've learned.
Combine the sentences.
;
, so
,but
,and
Because...
An article about the dangers of playing video games all day is what type of text?
Informational
Texts in brackets or parenthesis that show the actors how to act.
Rachel: (quietly entering the classroom) I'm so excited for tomorrow!
Stage directions
How do you need to start every paragraph?
Indenting
The first part of the plot diagram.
What do you find?
Exposition ----> Characters and setting.
Subordinating Conjunction
List 5 text features.
Photographs, captions, subheadings, maps, charts, diagrams, etc...
Playwright
In which paragraph do you have a transition word? What is the transition word?
3, Additionally
In a summary question, what should you look for?
Beginning, middle, and end.
(13) I tried to cover the jagged white streak with blue paint. (14) To my horror it remained visible beneath the blue.
What is the MOST effective way to combine sentences 14 and 15?
A. The jagged white streak that I tried to cover with blue paint to my horror remained visible beneath the blue.
B. I tried to cover the jagged white streak with blue paint, to my horror it remained visible beneath the blue.
C. Trying to cover the jagged white streak with blue paint, it remained visible to my horror beneath the blue.
D. I tried to cover the jagged white streak with blue paint, but to my horror it remained visible beneath the blue.
D
The formula for author's purpose
Verb + main idea
The text that a drama is made of.
Dialogue
Fill in the gaps for paragraph 2.
_______ ______ 3, _____ ______ ______, "Brittany was stunned to see Alix at her competition." ____ ______ that Brittany wasn't expecting Alix to show up to her performance. ________
In paragraph 3, the author states.
This shows
Spice/Spicy
The message, lesson learned, moral of the story.
Theme
(36) We went straight to our room. (37) Where we crumpled up our robot diagrams and tossed the paper wads into the trash.
What is the correct way to write sentences 36 and 37?
A. We went straight to our room, we crumpled up our robot diagrams and tossed the paper wads into the trash.
B. We went straight to our room, crumpled up our robot diagrams, and tossed the paper wads into the trash.
C. We went straight to our room, and we crumpled up our robot diagrams we tossed the paper wads into the trash.
D. The sentences are written correctly in the paper.
B
How the selection is organized is known as?
Organizational patterns/text structures
Large sections a drama is broken into.
Acts
Find the errors in the following sentence.
In paragraph 7, the author states "her coach was in disbelief with Brittany's performance"
1. Need a comma after "states",
2. The letter "h" in "her" needs to be capitalized because you're quoting. "Her coach...."
3. You need a period after the word performance.
The snow was a white blanket over the ground.
Metaphor
(3) A democracy is a form of government in which it is when the people have a voice in the way a government runs.
What is the correct way to write sentence 3?
A. A democracy is a form of government in which the people have a voice in the way a government runs.
B. A democracy is a form of government, the people have a voice in the way the government runs.
C. A democracy is a form of government. In which the people have a voice in the way the government runs.
D. A democracy being a form of government in which the people have a voice in the way the government runs.
A
5 different ways STAAR can ask what the selection is all about.
Thesis, key idea, central idea, controlling idea, and main idea