Make Up Points

Directions:

From the list below, apply terms to a news article.  No essay necessary here -- lists of terms and evidence will suffice.  In your work, make sure to note the following information:

title of article
author of article
name of newspaper and/or magazine and/or website + URL
date of article

anecdote -- a brief story (write a short summary of no more than 3 sentences)
argument and claim (what is the position of the speaker and what information and/or idea do they wish to present)
counterclaim (what is the other side of the claim and what benefits might this have)
audience (whom is the article directed to -- young people, middle age, older people)
coherence -- sequence of events
diction  (name word choices -- write at least 3 examples and explain how each give a sense of the claim, including the tone)
focus  (name the point of the author's point of view)
tone (feeling from the author's point of view)
transition (name sample transitional words written :  although, since, therefore, etc.

Make Up Points -- Terms for Writing

Directions:

From the list below, apply terms to a news article.  No essay necessary here -- lists of terms and evidence will suffice.  In your work, make sure to note the following information:

title of article
author of article
name of newspaper and/or magazine and/or website + URL
date of article

anecdote -- a brief story (write a short summary of no more than 3 sentences)
argument and claim (what is the position of the speaker and what information and/or idea do they wish to present)
counterclaim (what is the other side of the claim and what benefits might this have)
audience (whom is the article directed to -- young people, middle age, older people)
coherence -- sequence of events
diction  (name word choices -- write at least 3 examples and explain how each give a sense of the claim, including the tone)
focus  (name the point of the author's point of view)
tone (feeling from the author's point of view)
transition (name sample transitional words written :  although, since, therefore, etc.
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Make Up Work Fall 2015 -- Academic Vocabulary Prose and Poems

Directions:

For each day absent, you must make up work for either quizzes, tests, projects, and/or classwork.  Choose as many items below to make up for each day of absence.

Choices:

1.  Continue reading your independent reading book and write about each item below

*title
*author
*protangonist
*antagonist
*conflict
*chapter summations of no more than 3 sentences each
*a reflection of how the author developed the conflicts --no more than 4 -5 sentences
*provide evidence of at least two examples of the above and name page, paragraph, and line reference

2.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence

*abstract
*analogy
*anecdote
*antithesis
*argument
*atmosphere

3.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*autobiography
*character
*characteristics
*characterization
*concrete
*conflict

4.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*denouement
*determinism
*episode
*essay
*exposition
*flashback

5.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*foreshadowing
*form
*genre
*image
*irony
*journal

6.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence

*melodrama
*memoir
*monologue
*motivation
*point of view

7.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*naturalism
*objective point of view
*omniscient point of view
*persona
*plot
*poetic justice

8.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*prologue
*prose
*protagonist
*antagonist
*realism
*rhetoric

9.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*satire
*soliloquy
*speaker
*symbol
*theme
*thesis

10.   Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*allegory
*alliteration
*allusion
*ambiguity
*assonance

11.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*ballads
*blank verse
*connotation
*couplet
*denotation
*elegy

12.   Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*epic
*figurative language
*free verse
*hyperbole
*iambic pentameter
*image

13.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*irony
*ode
*onomatopoeia
*oxymoron
*paradox
*personification

14.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence.

*quatrain
*rhyme
*satire
*simile
*soliloquy


15.  Memorize and apply the list of academic vocabulary, then write each in a sentence

*sonnet
*symbol
*understatement