What the text is mostly about is....

Determine the Main Idea of the Following Text:

Many people throw out their garbage without thinking about where it ends up.  Often it is dumped in the ocean and the animals in the ocean try to eat garbage.  Often they get sick or die.  Turtles eat plastic bags.  Fish and birds get tangled in soda can rings, and dolphins and seals choke on bottles.

Determine the Central Idea of the following text:

A fish’s tail presses first to one side and then the other.  The tail of a whale moves up and down.  Eels and sea snakes move in an S pattern, bending their bodies.  Scallops flap their shells, squeezing out water to push them along.

Title/Subtitles, captions of pictures, repeated phrases, beginning and ending of text are __________.

Reasons, examples, or details which support the central idea are _____

A message or lesson the author wants us to learn is the ______.

Determine the Theme:

My best friend was having a party Friday night, but I also had a baseball game. This was going to be a tough decision. If I do not go to the game, I will let my team down.

Determine the Theme:

She sobbed for hours trying to think of a way out of having to tell her father she wrecked her new car. After stewing over it for quite some time, she called her father on his cell phone. “Thank you,” he said.

1-2 words which describe the subject of a text is the _____

What are the two types of genre?

A story/text that is not true....

A story based in facts or real events

Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Poetry, Folklore, Horror...

Sonnet, Ode, Ballad, Haiku...

Biographies, Autobiographies, Documentaries, Speech

Legend, Fairy Tale, Fable, Urban Legend...

The group of farmes who rebelled during Shays Rebellion

Why did Shays Rebellion begin?

Which event happened during the first during Shays rebellion?

Which event happened during the last rebellion of Shays Rebellion?

Was the raid of the armory successful during Shays Rebellion?

Why was the raid of the armory unsuccessful during Shays Rebellion?

How many types of text structures are there?

This text structure tells events in order. May use times/dates

This text structure gives similarities and differences of two or more things...

This text structure tells why something happened?

This text structure use details to describe an event or topic.

This text structure tells how a problem was solved.

For instance, for example, and another are cue words for ______________ text structure.

Before, reason, therefore, as a result, since, and due to are cue words for ______________ text structure.

Before, after, finally, first, and next are cue words for ______________ text structure.

Similar, both, also, different, however, and whereas are cue words for ______________ text structure.

Problem, solution, solve, and dilemma are cue words for ______________ text structure.

The way a story is arranged is the _____.

An event or problem which stands in the way of a character reaching their goal is the _____.

How many main types of conflicts are there?

First Person, Second Person, and Third Person represent the ________.

This type of Point of View is where the narrator addresses the reader.

This type of Point of View is where the narrator tells the story from the outside.

This type of Point of View uses pronouns he, she, her, him, them, their, it.

This type of Point of View uses pronouns I, Me, My, We, Us.

This type of Point of View uses pronouns you, your, yours.

One of the main types of conflicts. This is where the character struggles within themselves trying to make a decision. Deals with their conscience in most cases.

One of the main types of conflicts. This is where the character struggles with outside forces.

Person versus Self is a _______ conflict

Person versus Person is a _______ conflict

Person versus Society is a _______ conflict

Person versus Nature is a _______ conflict

A sub-type of conflict where the character wants to change or needs to make a decision.

A sub-type of conflict where the character faces a struggle with a larger group of people, community, or society.

A sub-type of conflict where the character faces conflict with another character.

A sub-type of conflict where the character faces a problem with a force that happens naturally such as weather/storms, or an animal in the wilderness.

One of the main types of conflicts. This is where the character struggles with outside forces of natural causes.

There are ___ types of branches of government.

The president heads this branch of government.

Congress heads this branch of government.

The Supreme Court heads this branch of government.

This branches job is to evaluate laws

This branches job is to carry out laws

This branches job is to make laws

A single row of words in a poem

This part of the poem is represented by numbers

A group of lines in a poem arranged together

The pattern of words that repeat at the end of the line in stanzas

This part of the poem is represented by letters

a person in a story

The narrators voice or how the story is told

When/where the story takes place

The first constitution of the United States

A document approved by the Continental Congress which declared the colonies free of British rule

A peace agreement between the colonies and Britain

This document was approved July 4, 1776

This document was written November 15, 1777

This document was signed September 3, 1783

Benjamin Franklin wrote the first draft of this document

Identify 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Words or phrases that do not have their everyday, literal meaning

A skill used to determine the meaning of words using words around it.

The series of events that make up a story

compares two unlike things using the words like or as

giving human like characteristics to something non-human

compares two unlike things

a statement or phrase that is an exaggeration used to emphasize

a word that names a sound

a widely used phrase or statement with the meaning that is completely different from its literal meaning

two or more words which start with the same sound are used in a phrase or sentence

background information of a text which includes characters, setting, and point of view

an event that occurs in the story and sets the character on a different path, heading towards the climax

events leading up to the climax

aka the turning point. This is where the main characters problems begin to get solved.

a series of events that happen after the climax. The story starts to slow down.

the solution to the problem. The ending of the story

Thomas Jefferson wrote this document

John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and David Hartley wrote this document

The most important provision in the Treaty of Paris