Final Exam (Mon. June 15) Study Guide

• Habits of a Good Reader: Selecting a just-right book; keeping a reading log; responding to literature (inferences such as connections, predictions, envisioning, etc.)
  
• Habits of a Good Writer: The writing process, including pre-writing (brainstorming, outlining, gathering ideas, etc.); drafting;, revising, editing, and publishing
  
• Small Moment Personal Narrative; Zooming in on a small moment; creating a timeline; painting a picture through the five senses, imagery, etc.; active words
  
• Persuasive Writing: How to convince readers to do something or think a certain way; choosing an idea; researching/citing sources; elements of effective persuasive writing (including clear message, attention to audience, effective word choice, factual support, and ethos); avenues of persuasion (PowerPoint, PSAs, speeches, letters, posters, etc.); delivering a persuasive argument to an audience (performance)
  
• Response to Literature: Selecting a big idea; writing a theme statement; using text evidence to back up opinions; structure of a 5-paragraph essay
  Response to Film: Akeelah and the Bee/Spellbound; film reviews; changing the ending/adding a scene; communicating with a character; creating magazines/newspapers.
  
• Poetry: Poetic tools (repetition, internal rhyme, end rhyme, onomatopoeia, line breaks, stanza breaks, vivid language; similes/metaphors); Poetry Hides; Self-Portrait; Memory Poem; City Haiku; poetry performance
• Literature Circles: planning for discussion; discussion
• Realistic Fiction: Characteristics of the genre (life-like, believable plots, situations, characters, conflicts); plot map elements (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement); scenes; chapters; dynamic characters (characterization: appearance, speech, actions, thoughts/feelings, relationships); hooking the reader; transitions; plot twists; flashback; flash-forward; timestamps; narrators (first-person, third-person); showing not telling (imagery, description, etc.)