Misc
What are the two types of characterization?
Direct and indirect
T/F: You can use any bathroom in the school as long as you have a pass.
False, you must use the bathrooms by the 8th grade stairwell.
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Telling the main ideas of a piece of writing briefly in your own words.
What is a summary?
Two people speaking back and forth. It involved quotes.
What is dialogue?
What does BAVE stand for?
Beliefs, attitudes, values, and experiences.
After you have been told you can go to the bathroom, what should you do before you leave the room?
Sign out using the sheet by the door.
The problem in a work of fiction
What is confict?
An author's reason for creating a particular work: teach, entertain, express an opinion, persuade, inform
What is authors purpose?
The main character of story, novel or a play
What is a protagonist?
What type of figurative language is this:
My roommate is going through a rollercoaster of emotions.
Metaphor
When should you NOT ask to go to the bathroom?
During direct instruction, mini-lessons, read aloud, a teacher is talking
The point of the story where the reader is the most excited. They do not know what is going to happen next.
What is a turning point/climax?
To be in favor of, or to pre-judge something or someone.
What is bias?
The sequence of events that make up a story, whether it’s told, written, filmed, or sung
What is plot?
What type of figurative language is this:
He was quiet as a mouse when he opened the door.
Simile
What does IRB stand for?
The central idea or ideas explored in a story.
What is theme?
Name 2 types of nonfiction.
Memoir, reference, biography, literary or narrative non-fiction.
Textbooks, academic essay's, persuasive, descriptive.
What does CER & CEW stand for? Is there a difference?
Claim, evidence, and reasoning & claim, evidence, and warrant.
There is no difference. Reasoning is used in elementary/lower middle school and warrant is used in upper middle/high school. They are synonyms.
What type of figurative language is this:
The last piece of pie was calling Rita's name.
Personification
What should you bring to class every day?
IRB, charged iPad, readers/writers notebook, pencil/pen.
When and where a story takes place.
The overall message that the author wants to make to the reader. In other words, it describes what the author wants the reader to know about the subject he or she is writing about.
What is central idea?
When a character sees something from their perspective.
What is point of view?