About a Book
It's a mark on the text, usually a quote from the text and your thoughts on the quote.
What is an annotation?
It's when you take information from a source without giving credit to the source.
What is plagiarism?
It's the affix that comes before a root word.
What is a prefix?
It's when the sentence has a subject, then verb, then object.
What is active voice?
She's an outstanding, Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote Beloved, Song of Solomon, and The Bluest Eye.
Who is Toni Morrison?
It's the two things an inference requires.
What is evidence from the text and background knowledge?
It's the style of citation used in English, Art, and Religion.
What is MLA or Modern Language Association?
It's the prefix that means before.
What is pre?
It's when the sentence has the "object", verb, then "Subject."
What is Passive Voice?
He's the bard. The famous playwright behind Othello, The Tempest, and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
It's who the author writes a book for, whether it be toddlers or educated rich Russians.
Who is the audience?
It's the citation we use in a paragraph.
What is an in-text citation?
It's a root word meaning death.
What is Mort?
The voice of the following sentence: The baby was fed by Lex.
What is passive voice?
She's known for her powerful dialogue and collecting folk stories. She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and died in poverty.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
It's information about the society, economy, political climate, and more around the time the book was set or written.
What is Historical Context?
It's the parts of an in-text citation.
What is the Parenthesis, Author's Last Name, Page Number, End Parenthesis, and a period?
It's the root words that mean water. There are two.
What are Aqua and Hydr?
Explain how to change a sentence from Passive Voice to Active Voice.
1. Identify the Subject and Object
2. Change their places.
3. Delete unnecessary words.
4. Change pronouns and verbs, if needed.
He was known as Gabo. He wrote Love in the Time of Cholera, 100 Years of Solitude, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
It's how the author talks throughout a piece. Might be happy, depressing, manic, or unbearable.
It's the consequence for plagiarizing a second time in a class.
What is a meeting with the Dean and your parents?
It's what the suffix -en means.
What is "made of?"
It's the following sentence but in active voice.
The video game was destroyed by a lawnmower yesterday.
A lawnmower destroyed the video game yesterday.
He doesn't want to be known as the Father of African Lit, but he did write Things Fall Apart.
Who is Chinua Achebe?