RL2
What is the standard RL2?
Determine the theme
What is the standard RL3?
Analyze how a character changes from Beginning to end
What is the standard RL4?
Determine the meaning of words and phrases
What is the standard RL6?
Analyze different points of view
What is the first thing you read on a test?
The questions
What strategy do we use to determine the theme?
Map out the story using the plot diagram and identify the lesson learned by the main character
What strategy do we use to identify the change in the character?
Analyze the difference in the characters:
-Thoughts/statements
-Actions
-Feelings
What strategy do we use to determine the meaning of words and phrases?
-analyze morphemes
-use context clues in the sentence/paragraph
-replace the word with the answer choices
What strategy do we use to analyze the POV?
-Ask what's the perspective on the conflict
-how does the character "feel" about it
What is an objective summary?
Summary without opinion
What is the BEST statement to express the theme in "Treasure of Lemon Brown"
Appreciate and Value the ones you love for what they do.
Which incident from the story provokes the Gregs decision to change his way of thinking?
Lemon Brown shares the love and respect for his fallen son
What does the narrator mean when he uses the simile "The voice was dry and brittle like dry twigs being broken"
His voice sounded crunchy and dry like dried leaves
What POV is the Treasure Brown ?
From Greg Ridley
What does indicate mean?
to show
What is the BEST statement to express the theme in "Rolling Sun Setting Wind "
Sometimes you have to let things/ people go for them to grow
What do these lines of dialogue show about Mussoni's attitude towards Nhamo?
"Think again. You will end dead. Think again of us, of your family. We have a home poor as it is"
He does not want his son to leave and fears for his sons future
What does the text states "Old Musoni raised his dusty eyes from his hoe and the unchanging stony earth he had been tilling"
He was raking and plowing the earth
What effect is MOST LIKELY created by Lemon Brown sharing details of his dad.
Greg has learned to appreciate his dad
What does develop mean?
to grow or elaborate on
How does the narrator's description of the setting in "The Setting Sun and the Rolling Wind" help develop the theme?
The author is intentional in informing us of the drought and barren land that convinces Nhamo to leave
Why does Mussoni give Nhamo his blessings to leave?
He was tired of having the discussion and decided to let his son go off and learn how to a man
Musoni said the psychological ties were broken.
What does psychological mean using morphemes
psych- Prefix- the mind/Mental
logic- Root word- study of/reason
cal- suffix - in relation to
His mental ties*
What effect is MOST LIKELY created by barren land in the text?
Nhamo wants to leave for a better life
To check your answers you should always find ___________ in the text
proof or evidence