Setting
Characters
Plot
Outcome
and Theme
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Strategies
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The setting of most of the action of
Common Sense: An Anansi Tale.
What is the jungle?
$100
Where Anansi traveled to find
common sense.
What is the whole world?
$200
Where Anansi searched for a
place to hide his calabash full of
common sense.
What is the jungle?
$300
The place Anansi tried to hide his
calabash full of common sense.
What is the tallest tree in the
jungle?
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When this story begins.
What is one bright sunny day?
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The main character in Common
Sense: An Anansi Tale
Who is Anansi?
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The main character is this kind of
creature.
What is a spider?
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The only character in the story not
named in the title.
Who is a small boy?
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The character who can be
described as “a tricky fellow.”
Who is Anansi?
$400
The only character in the story
who seemed to have common
sense.
Who is the small boy?
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In a story, this is what happens; it
has a beginning, middle, and end.
What is the plot?
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In many plots, this must be solved
by the main character.
What is a problem?
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In Common Sense: An Anansi
Tale, it’s the problem.
What is Anansi’s desire to own all
the common sense in the world?
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Anansi gathers common sense
and puts it in a calabash, for
example.
What is an important event?
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The three sections of a plot.
What are the beginning, middle,
and end?
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Another name for the resolution of
the main problem of a story.
What is the outcome?
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The author’s “big idea” or message
(sometimes a moral).
What is the theme of a story?
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In Common Sense: An Anansi
Tale, it’s the outcome.
What is the failure of Anansi’s
plan, or when the common sense
is scattered over the earth?
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In The Three Little Pigs, it’s
“Planning ahead and hard work
pay off.”
What is the theme?
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The main message or theme of
Common Sense: An Anansi Tale
What is “It’s foolish to think you
can own it all”?
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Text that tells a story. It may be
the invention of an author or the
retelling of a tale from oral
tradition.
What is narrative text?
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Finding and making meaning from
print and oral information.
What is comprehension?
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This is an approach to text-based
instruction that is designed to
facilitate building understanding of
text ideas.
What is “Question the Author”?
$300
Activating prior knowledge before
reading a selection; picture walk,
word walk, vocabulary, predictions.
What are pre-reading activities?
$400
Text that explains, informs,
persuades; factual
information.
What is expository text?
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Its initials are DRTA and it includes
Predict, Read with a Purpose, and
Prove.
What is Directed Reading and
Thinking Activity?
$100
Right There, Think and Search, On
My Own, and Author & Me
What are the four types of
Question-Answer Relationships
(QAR)?
$200
A graphic representation of the
story grammar of a narrative.
What is a story map?
$300
Three of the story grammar
elements.
What are. . . title, setting,
characters, problem, important
events, outcome, or theme?
$400
One of the tools that can be used
to help students understand story
grammar elements.
What is story map (or character
weave, or other acceptable
responses)?
$500