Literature
The three required reads for this class.
What is the House on Mango Street, Fahrenheit 451, and Night?
A strong favoring or disfavoring of something or someone.
What is a bias?
The place you put your weakest point when writing an essay.
What is the middle?
The letter that when by itself should always be capitalized.
What is I?
Where Ms. Melissa met her husband
What is Egypt?
The main idea of a story or passage.
What is theme?
Meaning intended to explain or describe something
What is expository OR informational?
The technique used to be able to consistently generate topics to write about by filling an entire page of ideas you have written about and wish to write about.
What are writing territories?
The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.
What is grammar?
Ms. Melissa's most recent degree earned
What is an MBA
The House on Mango Street consists of what Cisneros calls “lazy poems" which are also called...
What are vignettes?
Name 4 of the expository text structures.
What are:
Well you know them.
The testing strategy in which you answer a question by writing the exact line underneath it that proves why it is correct.
What is proving your answer?
What is using text evidence to prove your answer?
The Latin prefix meaning before.
What is pre or ante?
Ms. Melissa's favorite class to teach
What is Psychology?
The author of the Bad Seed and Cool Bean.
Who is Jory John?
The fallacy that is all about personally attacking someone rather than arguing with their points.
What is an ad hominen attack?
Mr. Geston's personal favorite reading test taking strategy.
What is reading the questions before the passage?
Past tense of the word smite.
What is Smote?
This is Ms. Melissa's emotional support plushie
What is a vampire bat?
Name and explain 5 different themes of The House on Mango Street.
What are:
Well, there are a lot you can chose from.
All the questions necessary to ask in order to ascertain if a source is credible or not.
What is what, who, when, where, why, and how?
The single most important thing you can do after finishing an assignment but before turning it in.
What is double check your work?
The form of a verb, typically ending in -ed in English, which is used in forming perfect and passive tenses and sometimes as an adjective,
What is a past participle?
The length of time Ms. Melissa knew her husband before she married him
What is one month?