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Grammar
Vocabulary
Short Story Plot Elements
How to play the Proficiency Review!
• Students will break into teams of 3.
• Each team will have a designated group leader that will be
writing the answers to the questions on the marker boards
or a separate sheet of paper.
• DO NOT show your answers to the other groups.
• Score will be kept. 1 point will be awarded for each
question answered right. 1 point will be deducted for wrong
answers.
• At the end of the game, the winning team will be given a
special treat !
• Any team fooling around, not participating, or causing a
disturbance will be given detention.
A sentence is a group of words that
expresses a complete thought. There are
four types of sentences.
What are the four kinds of sentences?
What kind of sentence is the following
sentence:
English class is always fun.
What kind of sentence is the following
sentence:
Hand me that glass of water.
A (an) _______________ sentence makes a
command or a request and ends with a
period.
Declarative also ends with a period, but
simply makes a statement. Exclamatory
ends with an exclamation point and
interrogative ends with a question mark.
A __________ __________ is made up
of a complete subject and a complete
predicate.
A simple sentence is made up
of a complete subject and a
complete predicate.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
The stage door is locked, and the
theatre looks dark.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
Opened the package and put it on
the table.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
This is the review for the
proficiency.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
If you go to New York City, you must
have dinner in Chinatown.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
A fire in the year 1194, destroyed
most of the Cathedral, but it was
rebuilt between 1194 and 1230.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
Mrs. Blanchet and Mrs. Buchanan
sing and dance around the town.
Identify the following sentence as
simple, compound, or complex.
John Murphy, who teaches AAP,
loves to teach and inspire
students.
The complete subject tells whom or what
the sentence is about. It includes a
_______ or a _________ and the words
and
phrases
that
describe
it.
The ___________ ___________ tells what
the subject is, does, has, or feels. It
contains a verb or verb phrase and all the
words that complete its meaning.
Examples:
simple sentence: The stage door is locked.
complete subject: The stage door
complete predicate: is locked
A ___________ ____________ combines
two or more simple sentences.
The
sentences are joined with a conjunction,
adding a comma before the conjunction or
a connecting word, like and, but, or or.
examples:
simple sentences: The stage door is locked.
The theater looks dark.
compound sentence: The stage door is locked, and the
theater looks dark.
A complex sentence is made up of an
____________ clause and a subordinate
clause.
An independent clause can stand alone and
it expresses a complete thought.
A clause that does not express a complete
thought is a dependent, or a
________________ clause. This clause
cannot stand alone.
One or more subordinate clauses joined to an
independent clause form a complex sentence.
Nouns name persons, places, things, or
ideas.
Match the types of nouns to their
definitions:
Common
Not a type of noun
Proper
Name ideas, feelings, or qualities
Abstract
Name general classes of things
Concrete
Name particular things and are
capitalized
Interact
Refer to material things, to people,
or to places
Pronouns are used to replace nouns.
Which of the following words is not a
pronoun?
I
Me
You
Because
They
You or ____ might buy a book because
of the book jacket.
Me
Him
I
they
Them
I wrote the story for ___.
We
Her
I
they
She
When our librarian does this, ___ is
using our school’s money wisely.
My
Mine
Yours
Her
She
The librarian gave the books to ___.
Us
Mine
She
We
Yours
A ___________
____________
Contains a main verb and one or
more helping verbs.
Identify the verb phrase or phrases in
each sentence.
He shouldn’t have
borrowed
his book.
Identify the verb phrase or phrases in
each sentence.
We could never have moved the
bleachers.
Identify the verb phrase or phrases in
each sentence.
Their grandson will be born on
Thursday.
Identify the verb phrase or phrases in
each sentence.
Pirates wouldn’t create maps
that could reveal the location of
their treasure.
The following definitions are taken from
vocabulary within the three short stories
we read this year. You will be given the
definition only and your group must figure
out what vocabulary word is the answer.
You will have 3 minutes to look through
the literature book, find the 3 short
stories, and write down a list of vocabulary
words (not definitions) from the Build
Vocabulary boxes.
READY. SET. GO!
Contempt; ridicule
Energetic hand or arm movements
A narrow opening
High intelligence and sound judgment
Intellectually deep; getting to the bottom
of the matter
hiding of one's feelings or purposes
sensitive
Occurring at the same time
Without calling attention to oneself
Great suffering from worry
Punishment for wrongdoing
moral; upright
Carefully and busily
In proper order for being seen, met, etc.,
by others
Doubted
Grasping or attaching oneself to
Sterile; empty
Identify the parts of the short story plot
chart:
4.
Climax
3.
Rising Action
5.
Falling Action
2. Conflict
1.
Exposition or
Beginning
6.
Resolution or
Denouement
Match the literary elements to their
definition:
IRONY
An implied comparison
MOOD
Hints of what is to come later
FORESHADOWING
Words that convey the opposite of
their literal meaning
SIMILE
A prevailing atmosphere or feeling
METAPHOR
Comparing unlike things using “like”
or “as”