KNOWLEDGE
True or False: A personal narrative involves the narrator.
What is true?
The basic way a story or essay is organized.
What is structure?
Simile or Metaphor:
The teacher planted the seeds of knowledge in her students’ minds, nurturing their curiosity and watching them blossom into eager learners.
What is a metaphor?
This is where some of the earliest writing systems formed.
What is Mesopotamia?
to Persuade, to Inform, or to Entertain?
What is the author's purpose for writing "Ancient Writing Systems of Mesopotamia?"
What is to inform?
True or False: A personal narrative is fictional.
What is false?
A cylinder a patient is put into and air is forced into it to help the patient breathe.
What is an iron lung?
What is being compared in this figurative language?
The teacher planted the seeds of knowledge in her students’ minds, nurturing their curiosity and watching them blossom into eager learners.
A teacher and a gardener and/or students and a plant.
A system made of thousands of symbols that had to be sculpted out of clay
What are pictograms?
Use the word 'diagnose' correctly in a sentence.
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True or False: A personal narrative is told in first person.
What is true?
Yearly, once a year
What is annually?
Revise this sentence to be punctuated correctly:
"I need to get my chromebook from the library." said Aisha.
"I need to get my chromebook from the library," said Aisha.
The cuneiform system made it easier for people from different civilizations to communicate with each other. What evidence from the text best supports this conclusion?
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What does this simile mean?
The children were joyful as a rainbow.
Rainbows symbolize joy, so the children were happy.
A personal narrative has this type of text structure.
What is chronological order of events?
More ______________ than we need pours down on this planet in the form of sunlight.
What is energy?
What word or phrase best completes this sentence?
I wanted to go for a walk; _________, it started to rain."
What is 'however' or 'but?'
Based on the text, why might researchers study cuneiform and pictograms of ancient Mesopotamia?
Through these writing systems, they learn more about the cultures of the people who lived in ancient Mesopotamia.
Firsthand account or a secondhand account?
"Ancient Writing Systems of Mesopotamia"
What is secondhand account?
Revise this sentence to include sensory details.
The drink went down my throat.
Give a statement in first person.
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What vocabulary word best completes this sentence?
She _______ out the window as if she hadn't noticed anything unusual.
What is gazed?
What is the main idea of this text?
Ancient Sumerians developed different writing systems as their civilization changed and grew, which allowed people to communicate, share ideas, and create large trade networks. (or something similar)
A strong conclusion should connect back to this part of one's writing.
What is the introduction?