OAE Study Terms

I-Chart

Inquiry Chart to organize notes

Synthesize

combine ideas from multiple sources to build cohesive product

**To effectively teach students the research process, teachers should use a combination of

modeling, direct instruction, and examples

Copyright

• The exclusive rights to an item given to the creator

  • This is a legal protection.

Attribution

acknowledging the owner of a work

Fair Use

Use of copyrighted material within certain legal limits

Licenses

ways in which one can use copyrighted materials

Open Sources

Works meant to be shared freely with the world

Liability

being legally responsible for something

MLA stands for?

Modern Language Association

Rules for Communicating in Classroom

1. Model the steps

2. Show what to do + what NOT to do 

3. Show example of the final product

4. Post directions or handout with steps

Intrinsic Motivation

motivated from within; a deeper desire to draw motivation from learning process

Extrinsic Motivation

comes from outside factors; wanting to do well in school so you get icecream

Scaffolding

providing temporary support to help students achieve a task

Epic Poem

a long, narrative poem featuring a hero on a journey while performing extraordinary acts

Sestina Poem

a poem with six stanzas with six lines and a triplet at the very end

Ballad Poem

ABCB or ABAB rhyming stanzas as part of a longer poem

Volta

the turning point of a poem

Mock Epic

a poem that pokes fun at heroes and literature that features them

Anapest

indicates a unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllable pattern

Tone

the author's attitude or feelings toward the subject, characters, or audience, conveyed through their choice of words, style, and perspective

Lyric Poem

a poem that conveys feelings or emotions through imagery and figurative language

Acrostic Poem

poems in which the first letter of each line of text spells a word

Iambic

indicates a unstressed, stressed syllable pattern

Meter (when reading)

the repetition or the stressing of words or phrases

Rhyme Scheme

the pattern of end rhyme in a stanza or poem

Imagist Movement

a reaction against Romanticism, encouraged reliance on visual imagery

Free Verse

lacks any pattern; can be about anything

Stanza

lines chunked together in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose

Trochaic

indicates a stressed, unstressed syllable pattern

Figurative Language

a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning (ex: hyperbole)

Cinquain

a poetic form on various topics that follows a strict five-line syllabic pattern

Theme

the central idea, message, or underlying meaning that a literary text explores

Blank Verse

unrhymed poetic lines in an unstressed, stressed syllable pattern

Limerick

humorous five line poems with a consistent AABBA rhyme scheme

Haiku

short, three line poems usually written about nature (5-7-5 syllable pattern)

Symbolism

an object stands for an idea or a greater meaning

Quatrain

Four-line stanzas with a set rhyme scheme

Villanelle

19 line poem with five tercets and a quatrain in a fixed verse form

Quintet

A five-line stanza (like a limerick)

Sonnets

a fourteen line stanza with a specific rhyme scheme

Foot

a metrical unit composed of both stressed and unstressed syllables

Dactyl

indicates a stressed, unstressed, unstressed syllable pattern

Shakespearean (English) Sonnet

three quatrains and a couplet

Couplet

two lines that rhyme

Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

14 line poem in which the last words in the first, fourth, fifth, and eighth lines rhyme

Trochaic Tetrameter

consists of stressed syllables followed by unstressed syllables