Q3 English Academic Vocabulary

Historical Account

• A factual explanation, description, or narrative from or about the past. All the people actually lived, the places existed, and the events in a historical account really occurred.

• A story set in the past that combines made-up characters and events with historical figures and real events from a specific time and place.

• A genre of fiction in which the plot could not happen in real life.

• A genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Historical Fiction

• A factual explanation, description, or narrative from or about the past. All the people actually lived, the places existed, and the events in a historical account really occurred.

• A genre of fiction in which the plot could not happen in real life.

• A genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.

• A story set in the past that combines made-up characters and events with historical figures and real events from a specific time and place.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Evidence

• A statement a person believes to be true.

• A text that explains why an author’s position on an issue is valid.

• Information that supports a claim.

• Perspective (attitude about events or people around them) of the narrator or one or more characters, revealed by words, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Claims

• Information that supports a claim.

• A text that explains why an author’s position on an issue is valid.

• A statement a person believes to be true.

• Perspective (attitude about events or people around them) of the narrator or one or more characters, revealed by words, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Argument

• A statement a person believes to be true.

• A text that explains why an author’s position on an issue is valid.

• Information that supports a claim.

• Perspective (attitude about events or people around them) of the narrator or one or more characters, revealed by words, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Stanzas

• Groups of lines in a poem.

• The arrangement of lines is irregular, and there may be no rhyme scheme.

• Pattern of rhyme in a poem.

• The characters’ spoken words in a drama.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Point of View

• Perspective (attitude about events or people around them) of the narrator or one or more characters, revealed by words, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

• Information that supports a claim.

• A statement a person believes to be true.

• A text that explains why an author’s position on an issue is valid.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Free Verse

• Pattern of rhyme in a poem.

• Groups of lines in a poem.

• The arrangement of lines is irregular, and there may be no rhyme scheme.

• Information that supports a claim.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Acts

• A section of a scene in a drama (like a paragraph in a chapter).

• A section of a drama (like a chapter in a book).

• Instructions in a drama that describe the setting and explain what the actors should do or how they should speak or behave.

• Information that supports a claim.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Rhyme Scheme

• The arrangement of lines is irregular, and there may be no rhyme scheme.

• Pattern of rhyme in a poem.

• The characters’ spoken words in a drama.

• Instructions in a drama that describe the setting and explain what the actors should do or how they should speak or behave.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4