VBA #2 Remediation

VBA #2 Remediation

Remediating standards R.3.4, R.2.1, V.1.3 and R.2.3

When an author adds extra passages or poems or songs or pictures/figures to help out the story as a whole.

Or why would the athor add things to a passage.

R.2.1 Explain how individual text sections and/or features convery a purpose in texts.

Example from "The Hobbit"

​"The Misty Mountain" song from Chapter 1

This poem helps to set the tone for the rest of the story. It tells us how and why the Dwarves are getting the gold and how badly they want to retrieve it.

Multiple Choice

What feature, if added to the book, would be useful in explaining the journey?

• A character chart with all the different types of creatures.

• a glossery of terms used by the creatures.

• A map of their adventure.

• a graph that shows how many times Bilbo misses breakfast.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of Bilbo's song against the spider in chapter 8?

• It distracts and angers the spiders.

• It provides the Dwarves a chance to free themselves.

• It makes the Dwarves incredibly angry because the song is silly.

• to highlight the fact that the spiders are very mean.

R.3.4 Explain the meaning or significance of rhetorical device in a text.

One type of rhetorical device:

Rhetorical questions are questions someone asks without expecting an answer. Writers use them to engage the reader or to suggest that their arguments make the answer obvious.

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

Read the following text from chapter 5.

"Gollum was defeated. He dared go no further. He had lods: lost his prety, and lost, too, the only thing he had ever cared for, his precious. The cry broought Bilbo's heart to his mouth, but still he held on."

How does the author appeal to the reader's emotion in chapter 5?

• He appeals to people's need to not care about others.

• He refers to the fact that Gollum is a lonely creature with no friends.

• He appeals to Bilbo's emotions of regret for hurting taking away the thing Gollum loves the most.

• He provides his own personal account of not having any friends or people who appeal to him and his needs.

Multiple Select

Read the following exchange between Gandalf and Bilbo.

"'Do we really have to go through?' groaned the hobbit. 'Yes, you do! said the wizard... And I am not going to allow you to back out now, Mr. Baggins. I am ashamed of you for thinking of it.'... 'No! No! said Bilbo. I didn't mean that. I meant, is there no way round?

Select two statements that describe the signifiance of the rhetorical question used in the above passage.

• It calls for the reader to be weary about Bilbo

• It shows a misunderstanding between Bilbo and Gandalf.

• It challenges Bilbo and wanting to continue on with the Dwarves.

• It persuades the reader to continue reading and being interested in Gandlaf.

• It emphazises that Gandlaf is trying to trick Bilbo into continuing the adventure.

Using words surrounding a word you do not know, to figure out the meaning of that word.

What does it mean?

Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, references materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the connotative and denotative meaning of words and phrases.

V.1.3

​Example in the Hobbit.

"'This is the dreariest and dullest part of all this wretched, tiresome, uncomfortable adventure! I wish i was back in my hobbit-hole by my own warm fireside with the lamp shining!'"

What does the word wretched mean?

​What does the word wretched mean?

Let's look at context clues surrounding this word.

"'This is the dreariest and dullest part of all this wretched, tiresome, uncomfortable adventure! I wish i was back in my hobbit-hole by my own warm fireside with the lamp shining!'"

All of these words should give you clues as to the underline word.

Make sure to look at words BEFORE and AFTER that word.

Open Ended

What is the definition of the word wretched?

• Wretched

(of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.

Multiple Select

Read the following sentence from chapter 7.

'"O good-by and go away!' grunted the dwarves, all the more angry because they were really filled with dismay at losing him".

Which two words in the sentence can help us define the word dismay?

• really

• grunted

• more

• losing

• away

Multiple Choice

Read the following setence from chapter 6.

"Very soon Bilbo was laid down, trembling with fear, on a wide shelf of focks on the mountain-side. There was not path down on to it save by flying; and no path down off it except by the jumping over a precipice. There he found all the others sitting with their backs to the mountain wall.

What is the best synonym for precipice?

• a small bit of stone

• a tree

• a part of a bird

• a steep rock face

This means how diction (the author’s word choice) and syntax (the way in which an author arranges those words) work together to achieve a purpose.

Explain how the author establishes and acheives purpose through diction and syntax.

R.2.3

Syntax (the way in which an author arranges those words)

Tolkien rearranges the word to show hos Gollum speaks differently from us because he has been away from society for so long.

Example from "The Hobbit"

"Bless us and splash us, my preciousss! I guess it's a choice feat; at least a tasy morsel it'd make us, gollum!"

​Diction: (authors word choice) Tolkien uses the word precious to show how Gollum feels about the ring. He uses bless us and splash because that it what he knows from his surroundings.

Multiple Choice

Read the following sentence from chapter 5.

Gollum says, "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?"

How does the diction in this setnence help achieve the author's purpose?

• The words that Gollum uses shows that he does not understand what people have in their pockets.

• Using the word nasty shows us the anger that surrounds this interaction.

• It emphasizes Gollums love for his wrong.

• It contrasts the way that Gollum sees the world compared to how Bilbo sees the world.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence best desribes the author's perpective in Chapter 7 where Bilbo kills the great spider.

Use this quote to help:

"He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath".

• Bilbo disapproves of the forest and all of the spider.

• Bilbo approves of the spiders wanting to eat the Dwarves.

• Bilbo is gaining confidence in himself.

• None of the other Dwarves like Bilbo and do not want him there.

Multiple Choice

Which quotation best supports the answer to the above question?

• "Go on! Go on! he shouted. "I will do the stinging!"

• "I am going to disappear", he said. "I shall draw the spiders off, if I can..."

• This is what he sane: "Old fat spider, spinning in a tree!"

• "I will give you a name," he said to it, and I shall call you Sting"

You finished remediation!

​Nice work! Up next is your final question.

Multiple Select

What should you do now after remediation?

• Check your grades.

• Finish any work that's not done for this class.

• Finish any work that's not done for any other class.

• NOTHING!