1St 6 Weeks We Did Poetry and Literary Nonfiction

Study Guide for 6th Staar

1 st 6 weeks we did poetry and literary nonfiction

Poetry –Study the following terms

Simile Metaphor Personification Imagery Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole Refrain Alliteration Idiom

Literary Nonfiction

Realize that it is truthful and has both fiction and nonfiction elements. It has things that make it true and real and things that do not 2 nd 6weeks we did fiction and drama

Fiction

Story Map— plot pyramid

Introduction Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution

Fiction will ask a variety of questions like the ones attached.

Character types—

Static Dynamic Round Flat

Conflict Types— man vs man man vs self man vs society man vs nature

Point of view

Stage directions

Dialogue

Character development

Showing not telling (acting)

Point of view 3 rd 6 weeks we did a benchmark and focused on writing some/ Bridge to Terabithia

Benchmark 1 results told you how you were doing so far in my class; I gave you those back in Dec

Writing: remember the grammar portion of writing is very important.

Developing characters and a story that follows the plot pyramid is also very important. Conflicts must be solved and an ending must be made to help make the story correct.

Bridge to Terabithia—used this book to talk again about characters and story lines for fiction.

4 th 6 weeks we did expository/informational texts

Expository

We did the strategy ROCS-FM---Read Organizational Pattern Context Clues Summary Fact/opinion Main Idea --This helps you pick out the main things asked about in expository texts. Need to know these main things because they are important.

We did an expository project to help you practice more with ROCS-FM 5 th 6 weeks we did persuasion and connecting genres

Persuasion

We analyzed media/speeches for the following items. Need to know these for STAAR:

Band wagon; testimonial; exaggeration; misleading statement; scare tactics; false authority

Formal/Informal

How to write persuasively. We wrote a persuasive essay too.

Connecting genres

We had several stories that connected and we connected them through questions and other means to determine how they were similar. ROCS read organized context clues summary 6 th 6 weeks will be research and another novel study