Grade 4 Unit 2 Week 1 Learning Slides

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of revealing your feelings to others without using words?

• Giving a high five to a friend

• Reading a book alone

• Ignoring someone who greets you

• Writing a letter

Open Ended

How do our actions and reactions help reveal who we are to others?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes how writers reveal characters to readers, according to the 'Enduring Understandings' in the Knowledge Blueprint?

• By describing only the characters' appearance

• By intentionally choosing characters' words and actions

• By focusing only on the setting

• By ignoring characters' relationships

Multiple Select

Based on the vocabulary table, which words describe things people do to share information or join together?

• communicate, connect

• actions, reactions

• relationships, tumbling

• encounter, interact

Open Ended

How can you encounter characters in a story or a drama?

Multiple Choice

Which element is NOT part of the plot structure described in the 'Plot Elements to Include in a Summary' checklist?

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Setting

Multiple Choice

How does Dorothy help the Scarecrow in the excerpt from 'The Wiz'?

• She gives him money

• She pulls the vine to help him get down

• She buys him brains

• She sings a song to him

Multiple Choice

What are the main parts of a plot in a play or drama?

• Setting, conflict, attempts to solve conflict, resolution

• Characters, setting, dialogue, theme

• Conflict, climax, falling action, conclusion

• Introduction, rising action, climax, ending

Open Ended

How can you use a literature annotation checklist to better understand a drama?

Multiple Choice

Which elements should you include when summarizing a story's plot?

• Events leading to conflict, conflict, attempts to solve conflict, resolution, theme

• Only the main character's actions

• The setting and the ending only

• Dialogue and character names

Multiple Choice

Which is the best summary of the scene from Dorothy Meets the Scarecrow?

• Dorothy feels badly for Scarecrow, helps him off the pole, and clears up his confusion about brains.

• Dorothy and the Scarecrow discuss the best way to get brains.

• Dorothy is walking along the yellow brick road with Toto when they find the Scarecrow stuck on a pole.

• The Scarecrow wants to buy brains, so he asks Dorothy for money.

Open Ended

Explain how setting, events, and conflict work together to develop the plot in a literary text.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a main aspect of character development as shown in the chart?

• Setting

• Feelings

• Traits

• Motivations

Multiple Select

Based on the character traits lists, which of the following are considered positive character traits?

• cooperative

• dishonest

• humble

• unfriendly

Open Ended

How can a character's actions reveal their motivations in a story? Give an example using any character you know.

Open Ended

What traits describe Dorothy in the excerpt, and what evidence from the text supports your answer?

Multiple Choice

What evidence from the excerpt 'Dorothy Meets the Scarecrow' best reveals Dorothy's feelings?

• Dorothy asks the Scarecrow how he would like to get down off the pole.

• Dorothy says, 'That's silly. You can't buy brains.'

• Dorothy says, 'What do you want brains for? Isn't it any fun being a scarecrow?'

• Dorothy pulls the vine to help the Scarecrow.

Multiple Choice

Which four aspects does a Character Development Graphic Organizer help you analyze about a character?

• Feelings, Traits, Motivations, Actions

• Setting, Plot, Theme, Conflict

• Dialogue, Setting, Mood, Tone

• Plot, Theme, Actions, Dialogue

Open Ended

How does Dorothy’s kindness or helpfulness contribute to the plot? Which sentence from the drama best supports your answer?

Multiple Choice

What are the three main columns in the 'Characters Contribute to the Plot' Graphic Organizer?

• Character Description, What happened in the PLOT?, How did the character contribute to what happened?

• Feelings, Traits, Actions

• Setting, Conflict, Resolution

• Motivations, Actions, Dialogue

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the purpose of using a Character Development or Characters Contribute to the Plot Graphic Organizer?

• To organize information about a character’s feelings, traits, motivations, actions, and their impact on the plot

• To summarize the entire story

• To list all the characters in the story

• To describe the setting in detail

Open Ended

What words or phrases reveal Scarecrow’s feelings?

Open Ended

When do you communicate through actions instead of words? How do you use actions to reveal different thoughts and feelings?

Open Ended

How do we reveal ourselves to others?