<p> Study Guide for 6th Staar</p><p>1 st 6 weeks we did poetry and literary nonfiction</p><p>Poetry –Study the following terms</p><p>Simile Metaphor Personification Imagery Onomatopoeia</p><p>Hyperbole Refrain Alliteration Idiom</p><p>Literary Nonfiction </p><p>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</p><p>Fiction</p><p>Story Map— plot pyramid</p><p>Introduction Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution</p><p>Fiction will ask a variety of questions like the ones attached. </p><p>Character types—</p><p>Static Dynamic Round Flat</p><p>Conflict Types— man vs man man vs self man vs society man vs nature</p><p>Point of view</p><p>Drama</p><p>Stage directions</p><p>Dialogue</p><p>Character development</p><p>Showing not telling (acting)</p><p>Point of view 3 rd 6 weeks we did a benchmark and focused on writing some/ Bridge to Terabithia</p><p>Benchmark 1 results told you how you were doing so far in my class; I gave you those back in Dec</p><p>Writing: remember the grammar portion of writing is very important.</p><p>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.</p><p>Bridge to Terabithia—used this book to talk again about characters and story lines for fiction.</p><p>4 th 6 weeks we did expository/informational texts</p><p>Expository</p><p>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.</p><p>We did an expository project to help you practice more with ROCS-FM 5 th 6 weeks we did persuasion and connecting genres</p><p>Persuasion </p><p>We analyzed media/speeches for the following items. Need to know these for STAAR:</p><p>Band wagon; testimonial; exaggeration; misleading statement; scare tactics; false authority</p><p>Tone</p><p>Formal/Informal</p><p>How to write persuasively. We wrote a persuasive essay too.</p><p>Connecting genres</p><p>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</p>