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Setting Characters Plot Vocabulary

The setting of most of the action of The setting of most of the action of Common Sense: An Anansi TaleCommon Sense: An Anansi Tale..

What is the jungle?What is the jungle?

Where Anansi traveled to find Where Anansi traveled to find common sense.common sense.

What is the whole world?What is the whole world?

Where Anansi searched for a Where Anansi searched for a place to hide his calabash full of place to hide his calabash full of

common sense.common sense.

What is the jungle? What is the jungle?

The place Anansi tried to hide his The place Anansi tried to hide his calabash full of common sense.calabash full of common sense.

What is the tallest tree in the What is the tallest tree in the jungle?jungle?

When this story begins.When this story begins.

What is one bright sunny day?What is one bright sunny day?

The main character in The main character in Common Common Sense: An Anansi TaleSense: An Anansi Tale

Who is Anansi?Who is Anansi?

The main character is this kind of The main character is this kind of creature.creature.

What is a spider?What is a spider?

The only character in the story not The only character in the story not named in the title.named in the title.

Who is a small boy?Who is a small boy?

The character who can be The character who can be described as “a tricky fellow.”described as “a tricky fellow.”

Who is Anansi?Who is Anansi?

The only character in the story The only character in the story who seemed to have common who seemed to have common

sense.sense.

Who is the small boy?Who is the small boy?

In a story, this is what happens; it In a story, this is what happens; it has a beginning, middle, and end.has a beginning, middle, and end.

What is the plot?What is the plot?

In many plots, this must be solved In many plots, this must be solved by the main character.by the main character.

What is a problem?What is a problem?

In In Common Sense: An Anansi Common Sense: An Anansi TaleTale, it’s the problem., it’s the problem.

What is Anansi’s desire to own all What is Anansi’s desire to own all the common sense in the world?the common sense in the world?

Anansi gathers common sense Anansi gathers common sense and puts it in a calabash, for and puts it in a calabash, for

example.example.

What is an important event?What is an important event?

The three sections of a plot.The three sections of a plot.

What are the beginning, middle, What are the beginning, middle, and end?and end?

Another name for the resolution of Another name for the resolution of the main problem of a story.the main problem of a story.

What is the outcome?What is the outcome?

The author’s “big idea” or The author’s “big idea” or message (sometimes a moral).message (sometimes a moral).

What is the theme of a story?What is the theme of a story?

In In Common Sense: An Anansi Common Sense: An Anansi TaleTale, it’s the outcome., it’s the outcome.

What is the failure of Anansi’s What is the failure of Anansi’s plan, or when the common sense plan, or when the common sense

is scattered over the earth?is scattered over the earth?

In The Three Little Pigs, it’s In The Three Little Pigs, it’s “Planning ahead and hard work “Planning ahead and hard work

pay off.”pay off.”

What is the theme?What is the theme?

The main message or theme of The main message or theme of Common Sense: An Anansi TaleCommon Sense: An Anansi Tale

What is “It’s foolish to think you What is “It’s foolish to think you can own it all”?can own it all”?

Text that tells a story. It may be Text that tells a story. It may be the invention of an author or the the invention of an author or the

retelling of a tale from oral retelling of a tale from oral tradition.tradition.

What is narrative text?What is narrative text?

Finding and making meaning from Finding and making meaning from print and oral information.print and oral information.

What is comprehension?What is comprehension?

This is an approach to text-based This is an approach to text-based instruction that is designed to instruction that is designed to

facilitate building understanding of facilitate building understanding of text ideas.text ideas.

What is “Question the Author”?What is “Question the Author”?

Activating prior knowledge before Activating prior knowledge before reading a selection; picture walk, reading a selection; picture walk,

word walk, vocabulary, word walk, vocabulary, predictions.predictions.

What are pre-reading activities?What are pre-reading activities?

Text that explains, informs, Text that explains, informs, persuades; factual persuades; factual information.information.

What is expository text?What is expository text?

Its initials are DRTA and it Its initials are DRTA and it includes Predict, Read with a includes Predict, Read with a

Purpose, and Prove.Purpose, and Prove.

What is Directed Reading and What is Directed Reading and Thinking Activity?Thinking Activity?

Right There, Think and Search, Right There, Think and Search, On My Own, and Author & MeOn My Own, and Author & Me

What are the four types of What are the four types of Question-Answer Relationships Question-Answer Relationships

(QAR)?(QAR)?

A graphic representation of the A graphic representation of the story grammar of a narrative.story grammar of a narrative.

What is a story map?What is a story map?

Three of the story grammar Three of the story grammar elements.elements.

What are. . . title, setting, What are. . . title, setting, characters, problem, important characters, problem, important

events, outcome, or theme?events, outcome, or theme?

One of the tools that can be used One of the tools that can be used to help students understand story to help students understand story

grammar elements. grammar elements.

What is story map (or character What is story map (or character weave, or other acceptable weave, or other acceptable

responses)?responses)?

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