What do you need to name to answer this question?
In your answer, you need to name:
How does Kevin change throughout the story?
Kevin's before trait
Kevin's after trait
What are paragraphs in poems called?
What are stanzas?
You determine the message in a text by looking at the...
What is the problem and resolution?
What are the three purposes an author writes an informational text?
- to persuade
- to inform
- to entertain
The type of figurative language below is:
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
What is alliteration?
In your answer, you need to name:
How does the author develop the narrator's point of view in the story?
What is the Narrator's feeling and the craft move?
What are the steps to PAC'ing poems?
Read 3X
First - exposure
Second - Annotate for
Who - the speaker/ narrator
What - the subject / topic
Connotation - positive, negative, or neutral
Third- Literal & Deeper meaning (theme)
A theme must meet these two requirements
- Universal message/ General statement
- No character names/ specific places
- full sentence
The six text structures for an informational text are...
What are...
Compare and contrast
Description
Cause and effect
Problem and solution
Sequential order
chronological order
The type and the meaning of the figurative language below is
Her head was spinning from all the new information.
What is a hyperbole?
She was overwhelmed with the information given.
In your answer, you need to name:
How does line 5 affect the tone of the story?
What is the before feeling and the after feeling?
Name 3 craft moves found in poems:
What are repetition, rhyme schemes, or word choice/ figurative language?
Name 6 narrative craft moves:
Answers may vary
Six craft moves for informational texts are
Answers vary
The type and the meaning of the figurative language below is
Make a beeline home
What is an idiom?
Come straight home
In your answer, you need to name:
How does the extended metaphor in paragraph 20 impact the mood of the story?
What is the extended metaphor, the before feeling, and the after feeling?
How is the theme developed in the poem below?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore— And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Answers on the theme may vary***
The theme of never pushing your goals aside is developed through rhymes
The two types of hints the author will provide to determine the symbolism of an item are
What are motif words, repetition, or character thoughts, actions, and feelings?
When asked to evaluate an argument, you look for...
HERS (historical account, expert quotes, research, or statistics) to determine if it is credible or unreliable
What motif does the plan represent?
"Lord, if this little old plant don’t get more sun than it’s been getting it ain’t never going to see spring again"
What is struggle/poverty/malnourishment?
In your answer, you need to name the following:
How does the description of the setting create the theme in "Open Boat"?
What are the setting and the theme?
How is the theme in this poem developed?
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise
Themes may vary
The theme that of unwavering confidence or courage is developed through figurative language
What are the four hints an author gives to show you a character's trait or perspective
dialogue
thoughts
actions
feelings
Evaluate the claim:
There is a growing concern over the mental well-being of teens and young adults and the use of social media. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds was stable from 2000 to 2007; it then increased 57% between 2007 and 2017.
The author makes a credible claim that social media is causing mental health concerns because it uses statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.
How is the motif below revealed?
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
The motif of determination is revealed through figurative language