u2 writing assignment

RL.4.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

Prerequisite Skills

1. Recognize words and phrases.

2. Understand the meaning of words and phrases as they are use in a text.

3. Understand the different types of context clues to convey meaning of unknown words.

4. Understand multiple meaning words.

5. Understand word parts.

Key Terms(vocabulary) Definition Student-friendly

language

· Context clues

· Figurative language

· Antonyms

· Synonyms

· Fables

· Legend

· Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words

· When words mean something other than their literal meaning.

· Words that mean the opposite of another word.

· Words that has the same or similar meaning to another word.

· Stories intended to teach a lesson, often in which animals speak like human beings.

· Stories that have been handed down by people for many years and that often has some basis of fact.

· Hints to find the meaning of unknown words

· Describe something by making a comparison to another thing

· Not the same

· Alike

· Stories that teaches a lesson.

· Stories that explains how something came to be.

Key Verbs (skills) Definition Student-friendly

language

· Determine

· Distinguish

· Interpret

· Clarify

· To establish something using evidence or facts.

· To set apart as different or special

· To explain the meaning of something

· To make something more clear and easier to understand.

· To decide

· To recognize how things are difference

· To understand

· To make more easier to understand

“I Can” statements in student-friendly language

· I can determine the meaning of words and phrases based on how they are used in a text.

· I can figure out the meanings of words and phrases an author uses.

· I can understand words that comes from characters found in mythology. (Herculean)

Essential Questions

1. How does the authors choice and use of words affect the meaning of the text?

2. How does the author’s use of specific types of figurative languages affect the meaning of the text?