Unit 1 Vocabulary Opener Words

Appropriate:

• Something that logically follows an action or choice

• suitable for a particular person, occasion, or place

• An accepted source of expert information

Consequence:

• Something that logically follows an action or choice

• suitable for a particular person, occasion, or place

• An accepted source of expert information

Authority:

• Something that logically follows an action or choice

• suitable for a particular person, occasion, or place

• An accepted source of expert information

Element:

• To demonstrate or prove right

• Any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories

• A piece or a part of something

Memoir:

• To demonstrate or prove right

• Any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories

• A piece or a part of something

Justify:

• To demonstrate or prove right

• Any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories

• A piece or a part of something

Annotate:

• Our unit's question, this will be a theme in most stories we read

• To examine something in detail

• To add notes to a text, to give explanations or comment on a text

Analyze:

• Our unit's question, this will be a theme in most stories we read

• To examine something in detail

• To add notes to a text, to give explanations or comment on a text

Essential Question:

• Our unit's question, this will be a theme in most stories we read

• To examine something in detail

• To add notes to a text, to give explanations or comment on a text

The text in ELA may refer to:

• A textbook

• An article

• A memoir we are reading

• All of these