Understanding and Responding to Texts: Unit Review

Historical fiction has invented characters in a real past setting; a memoir is a true, first-person account that looks back and reflects.

Line 1: The / snow / came / down / on / the / emp / ty / rink = 9. Line 2: To / mor / row / we / will / lace / our / skates / and / race / the / wind / to / the / end = 15. It does not fit: line 2 should have 13 syllables. (Example fix: Tomorrow we lace our skates and race the wind to town = 13, ending on an n sound.)

A renga is a linked poem by several poets taking turns, alternating 5-7-5 and 7-7 stanzas. The haiku grew from a renga's opening stanza and is a single short poem.

Texts by Inuit youth or Inuit creators (interviews, memoirs, music, social media from community organizations), because they share an insider's perspective.

Problem, why it matters, solution, objection and answer (often followed by a call to action).

Cause-effect.

When a text has technical words or everyday words with special meanings, especially for readers new to the topic or to the language.

The parts add up to 45, not 50, so the data has an error or a missing category.

Whether the truncated axis exaggerates differences; read the actual numbers.

That the subject is small or vulnerable.

Any three: clear, accurate and fair, suits audience and purpose, accessible, inclusive.

The engineers finished the lock.

A method or plan described just before it (it's a cohesive tie).

Any two: reread, use the glossary, ask questions, consult a reference, find the core of a long sentence, visualize, read on.

It states what will happen and gives evidence from the text plus what you know.

Revise your understanding.

Sample: Like Nadia, my team lost a member before a big game; unlike her, we didn't reorganize roles, and the story shows why sharing roles works.

Kenji is nervous, probably about important news inside.

An inference about the whole text, such as its theme.

The text never states or clearly suggests it; it goes beyond the evidence.

Situational irony.

To criticize something through humour and exaggeration, usually to encourage change.

From the Greek story of soldiers hidden inside a wooden horse given as a gift; it means a hidden threat disguised as something harmless.

Voice, word choice, word patterns, sentence structure.

Any two: over-insisting, blaming others, contradicting evidence, other characters' reactions show a different story, being young or upset.

Limited shares one character's thoughts; omniscient shares many characters' thoughts.

Any three: loaded language, one-sided sources, missing voices of those affected, vague evidence, generalizations, who gets the last word.

When a curated feed shows mostly views you already agree with.

They understand the need from the inside; leaving them out makes the text incomplete and possibly biased.

A norm is an expected behaviour; a taboo is something forbidden or strongly discouraged.

Through who has power: where people stand or sit, how others speak to them, who gives orders, who must stay silent.

Cultures are diverse; customs vary by family, region and generation. One text shows one experience.

Respect, responsibility, reciprocity.

Canada's centennial was a national celebration; he used that stage to describe a hundred years of loss for his people, ending with hope.

Learn and use the creator's name and Nation or community; read it as knowledge; don't treat all Indigenous peoples as one.

Evaluate, summarize, sequence, connect, conclude.

It uses all reliable evidence, acknowledges concerns, and doesn't go beyond the evidence.

Sample: For my next two science chapters this month, I'll check the glossary for every bolded word I can't explain, and keep a list of them.