Question

Key Words: Define the following in your own words

Word
Definition
genre


genres





Check-In (page 3): Based on the details provided in the description of the text, identify the genre and subgenre.
Details
Genre, Subgenre
A story that is meant to be acted out on stage and has a happy ending


Writing rich in figurative language that has a beat and a rhyme scheme


A published diary telling about events in the life of a historical figure


Stage performance that relies on music and singing to tell a story


Imaginative story that occurs over a short period of time with only a few characters





Check-In (page 7): Each of the excerpts in the left-hand column is a passage from a different genre. Match the excerpt with its genre in the right-hand column.
Options:
mystery
adventure story
fantasy
historical fiction
science fiction
Excerpt
Genre
From the top of the mountain, we could see how far we had traveled since the previous week. Suddenly, a raptor swooped down and grabbed our food supply bag!


After much debate, Eliana and Tobias finally decided to let the alien creature into their space pod and bring it back to Earth.


I adjusted my petticoats and rode toward father’s shop. We would need more candles if we would be sewing that many dresses.


Now that we had found another clue, we were one step closer to finding out whose footprints were in the garden.


The wizard led the elf back to his cave. When he blew on an unlit candle, a flame appeared.





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Unit 5 Lesson 3: Inferential and Explicit Evidence
Video Link:Citing evidence in literary analysis | Reading | Khan Academy
Key words: Define the following in your own words.
Word
Definition
analysis


inference





Check-In (page 3): Read lines 1-26 of the poem “Knock Knock.” Use what you have learned from the lesson to choose the correct answer to each question. Highlight or underline the correct answer.
Read lines 1–10. Identify the explicit detail that supports this analysis of the poem: The boy’s father loved him.
As a boy I shared a game with my father.
Played it every morning ’til I was 3.
“Good morning, Papa.”
And my papa he would tell me that he loved me.

Read lines 11–17. Which detail leads readers to infer that the boy’s father is not present with him now?
Until that day when the knock never came
and my momma takes me on a ride past corn fields
A confused little boy,
I entered the building in my mama’s arms.

Which sentence best describes how the author lets readers know that the boy’s father had gone to prison?
The author provides explicit details about the father’s arrest to inform readers that the father was in prison.
The author provides explicit details about the boy’s car ride with his mother to inform readers that the father was in prison.
The author provides specific details about the boy’s trip to visit his father in order for readers to infer that the father was in prison.
The author provides explicit details about the father’s appearance in order for readers to infer that the father was in prison.

Answer 1

Here are the definitions and answers you requested.

Key Words — definitions (in my own words)
- genre: A category or type of story or writing that shares common features (for example, fantasy, mystery, or poetry).
- genres: Different categories or types of literature or media (plural of genre).

Check-In (page 3) — identify genre and subgenre
- A story that is meant to be acted out on stage and has a happy ending
- Genre: Play (Drama)
- Subgenre: Comedy
- Writing rich in figurative language that has a beat and a rhyme scheme
- Genre: Poetry
- Subgenre: Lyric poem / poem
- A published diary telling about events in the life of a historical figure
- Genre: Nonfiction
- Subgenre: Diary / memoir (published diary)
- Stage performance that relies on music and singing to tell a story
- Genre: Play (Drama)
- Subgenre: Musical
- Imaginative story that occurs over a short period of time with only a few characters
- Genre: Fiction
- Subgenre: Short story

Check-In (page 7) — match excerpts to genres
- “From the top of the mountain... Suddenly, a raptor swooped down and grabbed our food supply bag!” — Adventure story
- “After much debate, Eliana and Tobias finally decided to let the alien creature into their space pod and bring it back to Earth.” — Science fiction
- “I adjusted my petticoats and rode toward father’s shop. We would need more candles if we would be sewing that many dresses.” — Historical fiction
- “Now that we had found another clue, we were one step closer to finding out whose footprints were in the garden.” — Mystery
- “The wizard led the elf back to his cave. When he blew on an unlit candle, a flame appeared.” — Fantasy

Unit 5 Lesson 3 — key words
- analysis: Looking closely at parts of a text to understand meaning, how it works, and why the author made certain choices.
- inference: A logical conclusion you draw based on evidence in the text plus what you already know.

Check-In (page 3) — poem “Knock Knock” (lines shown)
- Read lines 1–10. Explicit detail that supports the analysis “The boy’s father loved him”:
- “And my papa he would tell me that he loved me.”
- Read lines 11–17. Detail that leads readers to infer the father is not present now:
- “Until that day when the knock never came.”
- Which sentence best describes how the author lets readers know the father had gone to prison?
- Correct choice: “The author provides specific details about the boy’s trip to visit his father in order for readers to infer that the father was in prison.”