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Allegories |
A story with another meaning below the actual story |
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Expository essays |
essays that you must explain why what who or how |
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Persuasive Essay |
essays where you must persuade someone to do something |
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Main idea |
A one sentence sumary of a story |
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Plagarism |
illiegaly stealing the text of someone without their consent |
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Compare |
The similarities between two or more things |
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Constrast |
the diferences between two or more things |
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Supporting Details |
details that lead up to the main idea |
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Authors purpose |
Usually to Entertain, Pursuade, Share, or explain |
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Vocabulary |
Th language or words someone speaks |
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Context Clues |
Clues to finding the definition of a word by looking at the words around it |
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Night |
A book about a boy who survives the Holocaust and what happens during the time he is in Aushwitz |
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The Alchimest |
A book about a boy that searches Egypt for a treasureand learns lifes values on the way |
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Resume |
A paper that is meant to impress someone at a job interview by showing them your former jobs and skills |
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Interview Skills |
Skills used when you are at a job interview such as eyecontact and not being nervous |
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Editing |
Searching a passage for mistakes and fixing them |
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"I Have A Dream" speach |
A speach delivered in Washington DC Where Martin Luther King JR ended most segregation against african americans |
