ELL 2A

Please don’t forget to study for your test on Tuesday. Review nonfiction text features, comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction, how to cite textual evidence, and author’s craft/technique in nonfiction: strong textual evidence (research studies, data, statistics, interviews, and facts). Review author’s tone, purpose, and point of view.

Make sure to review the vocabulary words from our article of the week.

Oct. 10-Oct. 21

During these two weeks, we learned more about the main idea of a narrative and the difference between the main idea and supporting details. The main idea describes the most important part of the story. It gives an overall idea of what the story is about. Details support the main idea.

We also learned about point of view in a narrative. First person point of view is when a character in the story is the narrator. He/she describes how he/she feels and what he/she thinks. The pronouns we usually see are “I, me, we, my, us, etc.” Second person point of view is when the narrator addresses the reader using pronouns like “you and your.” Third person point of view involves a narrator that is not a character in the story. He/she describes what the characters in the story do, feel, and think. The pronouns we see with third person point of view include “he, she, they, them, hers, his, etc.”

Don’t forget to study your vocabulary list for the Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes quiz on Tuesday, October 4. Good luck, and have a great weekend!