Lit Lab Game Day Part 2

How confident are you about the ELA state exam?

• Confident

• Neutral

• Scared/Anxious/Nervous

True/False: We must annotate every paragraph.

• True

• False

When reading a literary text, what DON'T we annotate for?

• characters

• lesson learned/theme

• problem-solution conflict-resolution

• punctuation

When reading an informational text, what do we annotate for?

• characters and point of view

• main idea, problem, solution

• topic, point of view and main idea

• topic, point of view, main idea and lesson learned

True/False - Annotations should NOT be written in complete sentences when jotting in a text.

• True

• False

Which of the following are reasons to annotate?

• it helps us internalize what we are reading

• it helps us quickly find info when answering multiple-choice questions

• it helps us pull out the most important information

• it's what the teacher expects of us.

What is a theme?

• conflict

• resolution

• lesson learned

• the name of a character

Which of the following are ways to determine a theme?

• tracking the conflict and resolution

• annotating for the main idea

• noticing character changes

• summarizing the entire novel

What is dialogue?

• another word for quotation marks

• when a character talks to him/herself

• another word for conflict

• a conversation between two or more characters

True/False - To characterize a character, you only need to pay attention to what the character does.

• True

• False