Q1 Vocabulary 8th Grade

Setting

• When and where the story takes place

• A conversationbetween characters

• the most exciting part of the story

Sheepishly

• The main character.

• To do in a shy way.

• Parts of a story. Can be used like tools to discuss a story.

Wearily

• To not follow orders

• The perspective from which the story is told. Where the reader sees the story from.

• To do something in an exhausted (tired) way.

Reservation

• A place that has been set aside (reserved). Land set aside for Native Americans.

• The most exciting part, or the turning point.

• To poke

Fatigue

• The ability to do and believe whatever you want.

• State of being tired.

• The lesson or moral of the story.

Sioux

• A native North American tribe.

• The main events of a story.

• To do something in a tired way.

Plot

• A conversation between characters.

• The main events of the story.

• The narrator is the author. They tell the story from outside of it.

Characters

• A place set aside or reserved.

• The beginning of a story.

• The people in the story.

Central Idea

• The main idea, what the story is about.

• The main character.

• A tribe of Native Americans.

First Person POV

• The stuff (nouns) the story is about.

• The narrator is a character in the story, and we see the story from their perspective.

• The enemy or rival.