Indigenous History
What is lacrosse?
This high school served as the model for SLA-MS.
What is SLA?
The "A" in "AI" stands for this word, meaning "fake."
What is Artificial?
He's the protagonist of The Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
This indigenous woman is remembered for helping Lewis and Clark to explore the American west. Her face also appears on the one dollar coin.
Who is Sacagawea?
This high school's eligibility requirements include a portfolio or audition.
What is CAPA?
A synonym for "repetitive," Ms. Brown loves to use this word (which is a synonym for "repetitive") to describe an essay that repeats itself too many times.
What is Redundant?
He's got long blond hair, and used to live in New York.
Who is Dallas Winston?
This tribe's historical territory includes Delaware, New Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Who are the Lenape?
Just two SDP schools require applicants to fall within the 80th percentile of PSSA scores -- one is Masterman, the other is this.
What is Central High School?
What is Catchment?
The greasers use this word to mean "cool"... not to be confused with a similar-sounding word which means "sturdy" or "difficult."
What is Tuff?
This President signed the Indian Removal Act, which forced Native Americans off of their land and into the West.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Irwin T. Catherine was the chief architect of the School District of Philadelphia from 1920 to 1937. During that time, he built this high school for international affairs, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
What is Bodine?
Eighth graders will remember this fancy word from last year... it refers to the act of imprisoning someone.
What is Incarceration?
On the first page of the book, Ponyboy has two things on his mind; this famous movie star (whose face now appears on a certain brand of salad dressing) "and a ride home."
Who is Paul Newman?
Sequoyah created the writing system for this Indigenous tribe, who in the 1850s reached a literacy rate of nearly 100 percent, beating the literacy rate of the European-American settlers.
Who are the Cherokee?
One of the earliest "cinéma vérité" documentaries -- meaning a documentary with no narration or interviews -- is Frederick Wiseman's 1968 film "High School," which chronicles a typical day at this Philadelphia high school.
What is Northeast High School?
The Outsiders could be said to be a coming-of-age novel... or, if you're a literary critic, you could use this fancy German genre term that literally translates to "education novel."
What is Bildungsroman?
This 80s movie icon (whose name rhymes with "hazy") plays Darry in the 1983 film adaptation of The Outsiders... he also stars in action movie classics like "Road House" and "Point Break."
Who is Patrick Swayze?