Quiz Tomorrow

Hello all! We will be taking a quiz tomorrow. It will test your reading skills that we have covered so far. The questions are just like the STAAR test questions, so be prepared to use a strategy that we've talked about in class. The skills that will be tested in this quiz are:

Elements of plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)

Remember that the first thing you should do is identify the climax (the most suspenseful part), then everything else will be easier to figure out :)

Theme

This is the lesson that YOU can apply to YOUR life! It may be a lesson the character learns, or something you learned from the story. It is also known as the "main message" or "moral"

Characteristics of characters

A couple of questions will ask about how the characteristics of certain characters affect the story

Author's purpose (inform, entertain, persuade)

This is WHY the author wrote what he/she did. When determining the correct answer choice, always try to pick the MAIN purpose

Summarizing

Good summaries will include important events & details. NO MINOR DETAILS. 

Real & mythic elements

We touched on this briefly; Mythic elements are of course magical (not real). If something is mythic, it is not something that would happen in our world. Real elements are things that could actually happen in our world/life.

Don't forget to organize & preview your questions FIRST! Re-read if you zoned out, or didn't understand. USE YOUR DICTIONARIES :)