Central Ideas/Theme
What might be a central idea for an informative text about recycling?
Recycling helps save the earth by limiting pollution (teacher judgement)
Which of these is NOT a type of evidence? Statistics, models, facts, anecdotes, examples.
Modles
True or false: when writing dialogue, every time a new person talks, it should start a new paragraph
True!
True or False: a dependent clause can be a sentence on its own.
Fix the conventions error in the following sentence:
After a long january, Jerry went on vacation to orlando, florida.
January, Orlando, Florida.
True or false: a theme of a story could be "friendship"
FALSE. A theme cannot be one word--one word is a topic. A theme is what the author wants us to think about that topic "friendship should be protected"
If I'm writing an article about what percentage of students wish recess was longer, what kind of evidence should I use?
A statistic
Why might an author use dialogue instead of exposition in their story?
-It can help with the pacing
-It can draw reader's attention
-It can give us insights into characters and how they act with each other.
What is the difference between a proper noun and a common noun?
Proper nouns are specific (Polly, Honda Civic, Harriet Park)
Common nouns are general (girl, car, park)
What is an antonym of the word "serious"?
Silly, goofy, etc (teacher judgement)
What is the difference between a theme and a central idea?
Central idea: a quick, one sentence summary of what the story was about (a mother and daughter create artwork together). The WHAT.
Theme: the lesson or message the author wants to tell us (sometimes you have to let go of control to make something beautiful). The SO WHAT.
Which quote supports the central idea? Why?
Idea: Serena Williams is a great because she worked hard at a young age to achieve success.
A. Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan.
B. She and her elder sister Venus Williams were introduced to tennis at age four by their father, Richard Williams, whose stated goal was to raise them to be champions.
C. The sisters’ unlikely ascent began on shoddy public courts in Los Angeles, California.
D. Both girls played exhibition matches against leading professionals before they reached their teens.
B--It's the only one that combines her young age and her successes.
What is the difference between a basic metaphor and an extended metaphor?
A basic metaphor is usually one sentence (you are a gem), and an extended metaphor is over a paragraph, text, or poem (life for me ain't no crystal stair)
Name the pronoun and the pronoun antecedent in this sentence: the best mangos around have their own market.
His: their
Miguel: mangos
What is tone in a story? Give an example.
Tone is HOW the author is saying what they are saying.
(Teacher judgement)
Find the central idea: “What we really found through our research is that fifth- and sixth-graders really benefit from the extended-time recess,” Sherman said. “For our seventh- and eighth-graders to have relief time outside every day for about 10 minutes still gives that time to get some physical activity and socialize.”
Recess at school is beneficial for kids (teacher judgement)
Pick the piece of evidence that best supports the main idea AND tell why.
Idea:Bad Bunny is responsible for making reggaeton popular in the US?
1. Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Bad Bunny rose to fame in the late 2010s.
2. He helped bring reggaeton and trap music to a wider audience.
3. Reggaeton is a type of Spanish-language rap blended with reggae. Trap music focuses on urban problems, such as drugs and violence, and uses synthesized snare drums and cymbals to produce an energetic beat.
2, because it is the sentence that explains the relationship between Bad Bunny and reggaeton's popularity.
There are five commonly used author's purposes. Name four of them.
To inform, to entertain, to persuade, to reflect, to describe
Combine these two sentences into ONE sentence with an independent and dependent clause. The two girls went to the park. They got ice cream on the way home.
After the two girls went to the park, they got ice cream on the way home. Although the two girls went to the park, they got ice cream on the way home, etc.
Rewrite this sentence with an angry or upset tone:
The girl walked to the store to get her little brother a toy.
(Teacher judgement)
Find the theme: Dad used to tell me stories about the trees that still existed when he was a boy. There weren’t very many even then, with the urbanization program in full swing, but most people had seen at least one tree by the time they started school. It wasn’t like nowadays, at any rate. Oh, I’ve seen the plastic trees; practically every street has a few of them. But you can tell the plastic ones are artificial just from looking at pictures in the microdot library.
Be grateful for what you have, cherish your surroundings, nature should be protected, etc (teacher judgement)
Does this evidence support this claim? Why or why not?
Claim: The Hunger Games books changed the world by popularizing a new kind of adventure for readers.
Evidence: Although some critics and general readers have pointed out that the violence in the Hunger Games series seems excessive for the intended audience, most critics have expressed mainly positive reviews.
No! Although it talks about it how people received it, it does not talk about how it influenced adventure reading for kids.
What is the difference between syntax and diction?
Syntax is the order or type of sentence--short sentences might be more sarcastic or silly.
Diction is the words the author chooses--this can help us understand the purpose better by seeing what KIND of words are being chosen (formal, casual, technical, silly etc)
Write a sentence with an independent and dependent clause AND identify which is which.
Answer will vary--teacher judgement.
Interpret: what does this poem mean? What type of literary device is it using?
Excerpt from “No Man Is An Island” by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
It is using an extended metaphor to say that no one is alone--we are all part of something bigger.