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The intent/meaning of a text.

What is author’s purpose?

100

A story about the significance of patterns.

What is Grace’s Painful Pattern Repeated: See It? By Jesse Kohn?

100

Group of lines in poetry.

What is a stanza?

100

The problem in a story.

What is conflict?

100

Online platform where students and teachers meet for class time.

What is Teams?

200

Humans can appreciate nature by having a child like wonder.

What is Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

200

A story about a boy and his father in a cabin preparing for a trip to Canada.

What is the A Train Trip by Ernest Hemingway?

200

This author wrote Mother to Son.

Who is Langston Hughes?

200

The overall message of a story.

What is theme?

200

Folder in Schoology that contains units, assignments, quizzes, etc.

What is the course content folder?

300

The structure of a sentence.

What is syntax?

300

The introduction to a story, including characters and setting.

What is the exposition?

300

A nine-hundred-year-old poetic assembly that trails a pattern of sixes.

What is a sestina?

300

Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

What is a simile?

300

Used to get teachers’ attention on Teams.

What is the raise hand feature?

400

“…he is my creature, and maugre all his beliefs, he shall be glad with me.”

What is Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400

“Why do we have to go?” “I don’t know”, he said. “But we do.”

What is A Train Trip by Ernest Hemingway?

400

“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”

What is Mother to Son by Langston Hughes?

400

To be filled with the feeling of love.

What is enamored?

400

Folder in Schoology that contains the course syllabus.

What is the course information folder?

500

Writing based on facts, real events and real people

What is nonfiction?

500

He, she, it and they.

What is 3rd person Point of View?

500

Never give up, no matter how hard life gets.

What is Mother to Son by Langston Hughes?

500

Use and choice of words.

What is diction?

500

Learning students do on their own, outside of class time.

What is asynchronous learning?