ELA: Unit 1 Review for CDA

Each of you have the POWER to earn an A on this CDA

Writing Process CCSS.07.LA.W.7.5

The Writing Process5 Steps

1. Prewriting or Planning

2. Drafting3. Revising4. Proofreading or

Editing5. Publishing

Let’s Focus on Prewriting

Brainstorming Clustering Idea mapping

Helps the writer toorganize their thoughtsand ideas.

Fragmented Sentences CCSS.07.LA.L.7.1

A sentence fragment is a group of words that looks like a sentence but does not contain both a subject and a verb or does not express a complete thought.

Example: Sailing around the world.

[ The word group lacks a subject]

They are sailing around the world.

Identify each of the following word groups as a sentence or a sentence fragment.

1. During her summer vacation.

2. My friend Michelle visited Colorado.

3. Down the rapids on the Colorado River.

4. At first her boat drifted calmly through the Grand Canyon.

Topic Sentences CCSS.07.LA.W.7.2.b

The main idea of a paragraph is often stated in a topic sentence. It tells the reader what the paragraph is about.

Usually found in the beginning of a paragraph. Can be found in the middle and end of a paragraph.

Many multiracial kids glide easily between their mixed cultures. Kelly Dube, 12, of Los Angeles is half Korean and half French Canadian. His mother takes him to Buddhist temple, where he has learned how to meditate. He can understand and speak some Korean and knows a little French. Most of the time, though, he doesn’t think about his bi-racial status: “If anything, I think I’m more American.”

Where is the topic sentence in the above paragraph?

Supporting DetailsCCSS.07.LA.W.7.2.b

Supporting Details are sentences within the paragraph that supports the topic sentence.

Many multiracial kids glide easily between their mixed cultures. Kelly Dube, 12, of Los Angeles is half Korean and half French Canadian. His mother takes him to Buddhist temple, where he has learned how to meditate. He can understand and speak some Korean and knows a little French. Most of the time, though, he doesn’t think about his bi-racial status: “If anything, I think I’m more American.”

Do you believe that the supporting details focuses on the topic sentence?

Organizational Method CCSS.07.LA.L.7.4

Cause and effect – you can write about your favorite class in school. You would probably explain the causes for liking the subject. You can use transitions to make the causes and effects clear. Cause and effect can be based to organize an expository essay.

Scholastic News Oct 4, 2010 Extreme Weather and Tell Me Why (Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer

Order of importance- all the points should be relevant to the topic. You can place the most important idea in the first body of the paragraph, and then follow it with the less-important ideas mentioned in other paragraphs. Or you can build up to the most important point, placing it in the last body of the paragraph. This pattern works well for any type of essay.

Organizational Method CCSS.07.LA.L.7.4

Compare and contrast- you can make a strong case by comparing your

position with similar ideas that are proved. Or you can contrast your

position with its opposite, pointing out differences to show why your

position is better. This is a form of persuasive and expository writing.

Activity: Scholastic News- OCT 24 2011Hope on Wheels

Homonyms CCSS.07.LA.L.7.2.b

HomonymsWords that sound the same but have different meanings.

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roared

Figurative Language: Hyperbole CCSS.07.LA.w.7.9.a

Hyperbole is the use of overstatement or exaggeration. It is a special type

of figurative language that allows writers to infuse shades of meaning into

their descriptions of characters and plots. Many hyperboles can be funny.

Example: I was so hungry, I ate the whole cow.

Figurative Language: Hyperbole CCSS.07.LA.w.7.9.a

Hyperbole is the use of overstatement or

exaggeration. It is a special type offigurative language that allows

writers toinfuse shades of meaning into theirdescriptions of characters and plots.

Many hyperboles can be funny.

Example: It was raining cats and dogs.

Example: My boat is as big as Noah's ark.

Figurative Language Allusion CCSS.07.LA.w.7.9.a

An allusion is a reference to a well-known place, literary or art work, famous person, or historical event.

Allusions are dependent on the reader being familiar with the work or item mentioned.

Example:

If you tell your friends thatyour cousin reminds you of Bart Simpson, they will

have a definite picture of that

boy’s personality.

Shakespeare Fairy Tale

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet were boyfriend and

girlfriend whom families wereenemies. They loved each other

somuch that one died for the other.

Action Magazine Sept 5th 2011 : Play Format

Hansel and Gretel

A brother and sister you were tricked by

their stepmother to get lost in thewoods.

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Figurative Language Allusion CCSS.07.LA.w.7.9.a

Figurative Language: Alliteration CCSS .07.LA.L.7.5

A poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that

begin with the same or similar consonants.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater.

Figurative Language: Imagery CCSS.07.LA.W.7.9

Imagery is language that appeals to the senses. Most images

are visual; they appeal to the sense of sight, creating pictures

that readers can see in their minds. Other images appeal to

senses of touch, taste, hearing, or smell.

Example: Joey woke to the aroma of blueberry pancakes and bacon. He could hear the “sizzle pop” sound of the bacon frying in Grandma’s iron skillet. Opening his eyes, he saw the floral pattern of the wallpaper that trimmed the tops of Grandma’s guest bedroom walls.

Literary Device: Achilles Heel CCSS.07.LA.L.7.5

ACHILLES HEEL TENDONin the legs of mammals, powerful, cordlike band of connective

tissue thatjoins the fused muscles of the calf to the bone of the heel.

Because bones are moved by muscles pulling on the connecting tendon,

severance or rupture of the Achilles tendon results in immediate loss of the

normal use of the leg and foot. This is a form of the main weakness. The

name of the tendon is derived from the legendary Greek warrior Achilles.

Literary Device: Pun CCSS.07.LA.L.7.5

A pun is a way of using words so that their meaning can be taken in different ways, which makes what is said humorous.

Example: Notice the word play in the following excerpt fromAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

“ And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.

“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle, “nine the next, and so on.”

“What a curious plan! Exclaimed Alice.“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphone remarked:”

because they lessen from day to day.”------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The pun involves the similar sounds but vastly different meanings of

the words lessons and lessen.

Redundancy CCSS.07.LA.L.3.a

Redundancy- the use of a word or words whose meaning is already

conveyed elsewhere in a passage.

Macbeth was very ambitious. This led him to wish to become king of

Scotland. The witches told him that this wish of his would come true. The

of Scotland at this time was Duncan. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth

murdered Duncan. He was thus enabled to succeed Duncan as king. (55

words.)

Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth achieved his ambition and realized the

prediction of the witches by murdering Duncan and becoming king of

in his place. (26 words.)

Relevant CCSS.07.LA.W.7.2.b

A relevant detail is one that gives information about the main idea.

Irrelevant details do not give necessary information and the may distract and annoy the reader.

Example:

There is a right way to make a peanut butter sandwich (main idea). First,

You should use a butter knife or some other dull knife so that you can

Easily spread the peanut butter without cutting yourself (relevant detail).

Once, when I made a sandwich, I almost cut my hand, but I didn’t

(irrelevant detail).

Tone in a Sentences ccss.07.LA.W.7.9

Sarcastic ComicalMysteriousBitter

Punctuation CCSS.07.LA.L.7.2.b