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CRCT Review
Jeopardy style review of CRCT concepts
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English
6th Grade
04/07/2010

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I, me, we, you, us…
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Personal Pronouns
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Chinese, shiny, red, blue, five, loud, rapid, safe…
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Adjectives
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mine, yours, his, her, our, their, theirs, ours…
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Possessive Pronouns
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Mrs. McCall, Jasaye, Camden Middle School, Mike, Starbucks…
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Proper Nouns
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star, ball, school, car, hat, coffee, strawberry, pickle…
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Common Nouns
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love, happiness, joy, hope, faith…
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Abstract Nouns
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what is alike and what is different
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Compare and Contrast
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offering a dilemma and solving it
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Problem/Solution
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am, is, are, was, were, become, seem...
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Linking Verbs
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run, swim, jog, dance, work, sing, play…
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Verbs
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quickly, rapidly, slowly, quietly, hopefully, very
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Adverbs
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boom, crash, bang, swish, shush
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Onomatopoeia
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She is a beast. He is a nasty trashcan. The dog is a mean snake.
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Metaphor
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She is as slow as a turtle, hot like the sun, ugly like a dog, fat like a sausage, fast like a snake, smelly as a moldy cake
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simile
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The toilet screamed. The wind called. The cars gossiped.
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Personification
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Eli, the boy in the gold beads, earned money.
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Appositive Phrase
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extra details in writing that are unneeded and unrelated to the topic
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Extraneous or Irrelevant Details
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clear, easy to understand
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Clarity
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how the author feels about what he is writing
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Tone
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how it makes the reader feel
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Mood
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where and when the story takes place
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Setting
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introduction/rising action/climax/falling action/resolution
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parts of plot
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*info about characters comes from dialogue
*includes plays
*stage directions give extra info to the reader
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Drama
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*animals are characters
* teach a lesson
* usually involve a trick
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Folktales
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writing about life of another person
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Biography
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write about your own life
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Autobiography
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Has daily/weely entries, first-person point of view
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Diary or Journal
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why to buy Cheerios instead of Fruit Loops, which pet to buy, who to elect for President
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Persuasive
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drawings, pictures of information
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Diagram/Illustrations
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lists of data
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Charts or Tables
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Fake writing
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Fiction
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True stories
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Non-fiction
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Used with an action verb/ tells who is recieving the action
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Direct Object
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I threw Gabe the pencil. (Gabe)
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Direct Object
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I threw Gabe the pencil. (threw)
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Verb
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I threw Gabe the pencil.
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Subject (Personal Pronoun)
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I threw Gabe the pencil. (the)
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Article
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I threw Gabe the pencil. (Gabe)
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Proper Noun/Indirect Object
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describe the subject/ with linking verbs
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Predicate Adjectives
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rename the subject/ with linking verbs
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Predicate Nouns
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Gabe seemed sad. (sad)
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Predicate Adjective
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Gabe was a student. (student)
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Predicate Noun
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problem in a story
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Conflict
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man v man man v nature man v self man v society
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Types of Conflict
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FANBOYS
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Conjunctions- for and nor or but yet so
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either/or, not only/but also
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CorRELATIVE conjunctions (pairs)
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on the couch, near the wall, beside the bed, around the room, under the bridge
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Prepositional Phrases
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about, above, for, to
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Prepositions
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nice, mean, smart, blonde, beautiful
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Adjectives (Character Traits)
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“Go home,” said Mrs. McCall.
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Dialogue
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Nah, I aint fixin to do dat.
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Dialect
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myself, herself, ourselves, himself, itself
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Reflexive Pronouns
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means you are in the story “I” or “our” or “we” (POV)
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1st Person
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someone else telling the story from above (POV)
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3rd Person
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Who is the boss?
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Interoggatives
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Stop!
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Exclamatory
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Clean your room.
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Imperative
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Amanda has a pen.
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Declarative
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a, an, the
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Articles
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a piece of writing
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Text
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paragraph in a poem
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Stanza
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the sentence that tells what the rest of the paragraph is about
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Topic Sentence/Unifying Sentence
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give supporting information for the topic sentence, give proof
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Supporting Details
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choose a topic and NARROW it DOWN!!!!!
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Frist step in the research process
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an exaggeration/ I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
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Hyperbole
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over used phrase/ It’s raining cats and dogs.
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Idiom
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Al always ate apples in Augusta.
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Alliteration
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move you from one topic to another like Next, Finally, First of all
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Transition Words
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onyms- different/good and bad
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Antonyms
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onyms- same/good, great
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Synonyms
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the passing of stories from one generation to another
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The Oral Tradition
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*includes gods and goddesses
*explain something in nature
*includes humans that make mistakes
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Mythology
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Who? Whom? Which? Whose?
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Interoggative Pronouns
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everybody, somebody, anybody, each, someone
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Indefinite Pronouns
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this, that, these, those
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Demonstrative Pronouns
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a word that describes using the 5 senses
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Sensory Details
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a simple predicate
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the VERB is the same thing as the SIMPLE PREDICATE
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Wow! OMG! Goodness! Ahhh! Hey,
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Interjections
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come before the main verb to indicate time
*I will be going to park. or *I have been riding the bus.
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Helping Verbs
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a reference book that offers word substitutions
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Thesaurus
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what happens in a story
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Plot
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Heading, Greeting, Body, Signature
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Parts of a Letter
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entertain, persuade, inform
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Types of Authors Purpose
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list of vocabulary words with definitions
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Glossary
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a list of topics found in a book with page numbers on where the reader can find information about that topic
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Index
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is the words underneath a picture or diagram that explains what the picture or diagram is about
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Captions
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lesson about life from a story
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Theme
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Non-fiction, Fiction, Drama, Oral Tradition, Poetry
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Genres
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Mainly maps, but sometimes population information, tourist guides…
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Atlas
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words are the words at the top of the page in a dictionary that show the first and last word listed on that page
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Guide Words
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BAD GUY in a story
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Antagonist
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The GOOD GUY
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Protagonist
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