Unit 2
Animal Allies
Animal Allies
Who is famous for studying chimpanzees in Gombe National Park and writing My Life with the Chimpanzees?
Jane Goodall
What type of essay did you write for your Modern Technology unit?
Argumentative essay
What is the name for the type of writing in which an author tells a true story from their own life?
*100 BONUS EVERYONE CAN GET POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:Name a memoir that we read this year.
Memoir
* from Bad Boy, from Brown Girl Dreaming
What is the highest mountain on Earth?
Mount Everest
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what creature does Alice follow until she falls into the deep well?
White Rabbit
In which country was “Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog” set?
Japan
What year was the iPhone invented?
* 200 Bonus EVERYONE can answer: When was google created?
2007
* 1998
What skill did Michaela DePrince become famous for?
Ballet
What is the name of the character who spent many years travelling from Troy back home to Ithaca?
Odysseus
What is the name of the creature that was slain by the vorpal sword?
Jabberwock
Who is the “black cowboy” in the story “Black Cowboy, Wild Horses,” who was born a slave and then became a famous and successful cowboy?
Bob Lemmons
What is the most popular social media site among teenagers?
YouTube
What is the name of the stuffed tiger who is Calvin’s imaginary friend?
Hobbes
What online tool did Saroo Birerley use to locate his hometown in A Long Way Home?
Google Earth
In ELA, what term refers to how an author shows a character’s traits or personality in a piece of writing?
Characterization
What did Jane Goodall discover that David Greybeard could do which scientists had previously thought only humans could do?
Make tools
What is the name for “regular” writing that is not poetry and uses paragraphs instead of lines?
Prose
Who was the youngest person to climb the “seven summits,” or the highest mountain on each of the seven continents?
Samantha Larson
What is the name for a three-dimensional geometric figure with twelve faces? (Hint: it is a character in The Phantom Tollbooth.)
Dodecahedron
What is the name of the pet canary who saved the astronauts in the story “Feathered Friend”?
*500 BONUS EVERYONE CAN GET POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: What is the only land animal that cannot jump?
Claribel
* BONUS: elephant 🐘
What is the literary device Leena Khan uses to compare technology to a black hole?
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another.
What country was Michaela DePrince born in?
Sierra Leone
In ELA, what is the term for a message or statement about life that is expressed through a piece of writing?
Theme
This word means to be sluggish or have low energy. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the creatures living in the Doldrums get their name from this word. What is the word?
Lethargic/lethargy