sixth grade check in #3

What is the plot of a story?

• the series of that unfolds from start to finish

• the characters

• the setting

• the kind of story it is

What is the theme of a story?

• what the story is about

• the underlying meaning of the story (you have to make an inference)

• the setting of a story

• the problem in a story

What does text to self mean?

• reading a text closely

• connecting one story to another

• connecting a story to your own live

• connecting a story to the world

What does text to text mean?

• connecting a story to your life

• connecting one story to another

• connecting a story to your life

• read the text of a story

What does text to world mean?

• reading text around the world

• contecting one text to another

• connecting the text to your own life

• connecting the text to real life

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word humble: "I sounded very humble, but the truth's the truth.

• without pride or arrogance

• showing a lot of pride

• being bossy

• being mean to someone

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word digress: "And I didn't digress at all"

• to get sidetracked in conversation or writing

• to stay focused

• to go up

• to say something that is wrong

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word senority: "It wasn't long before we stopped looking fresh and had senority in camp."

• bossy toward someone

• a young person

• to be lower ranked

• to have a higher rank based on experience or age

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word bubbly: "Stew said I had a bubbly personality so she had me help the new children get used to living here."

• cheerful;bright

• mean

• quiet

• sad

Use context clues to dermine the meaning of fumble: "He's start blinking a lot and would get twitchy and fumble the cloth when he tried to dry the dish."

• throw

• firm grip

• to move one's hands or handle something clumsy

• to hang onto something