Paired Text

​Objective:

​SWBAT make connections to ideas in other texts

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​Product:

​Students will answer 5 STAAR based questions with at least 80% accuracy

Need for notes​

• ​Two texts being looked at

• ​Similarities vs differences

• Plot: events that happen in the entire story

• ​Conflict: Problem of the story

• ​Resolution: how the problem is solved

• ​Character traits: Parts of a person's behavior/attitude that make up their personality

• ​Setting: Where events in the story are taking place/When the story happens

​Stanzas: "paragraphs"of the poem/group of lines

​Lines: groups of words in the poem that are arranged

​Speaker: Voice behind the poem

​Rhyme: Words that have same ending sounds

​Rhythm: Beat, sound, feel of poem

​Shift: A change that happens in the poem/not in every poem

• Theme: Message of story

• Summary: What happened in the story

• ​Imagery: vivid descriptions using words

• ​Figurative language: words/phrases used in a non-literal way for effect

​1st person: subjective, narrator telling the story from their own point of view(I, we)

​3rd person limited: subjective, narrator only knows thoughts of a single character(they, he, she)

​3rd person omniscient: full knowledge of all characters thoughts and feelings, all-knowing narrator

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​Subjective: personal interpretation

​Objective: Factual, without bias