Short Stories

What is the moral of a story?

• Where the story is set.

• The main character in the story.

• The lesson that it teaches us.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why is the moral of Cinderella "always be kind to each other"?

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What are literary techniques?

• Tools used by a writer to paint an image in the readers head.

• The images on the front and back cover of the book.

• The way the word are laid out on the page.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of these are literary techniques that we have looked at?

• Similes

• Exclamation marks

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is this sentence an example of: "When she doesn't have her glasses on, she is as blind as a bat!"

• Simile

• Personifcation

• First person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Draw the image that this sentence creates in your head: "The fire swallowed the house"

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is "the fire swallowed the house" an example of?

• Personification

• A moral

• Third person

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does it mean to make an inference?

• To recommend the text to a friend.

• A conclusion or

  guess based on

  evidence from the text.

• Whether you like the text or not when you've finished reading it.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What can we infer has happened to the boy in this image? How do we know this?

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What can we infer the team have done in this picture? How do we know this?

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1