New Media
This four-letter acronym describes the anxiety teens feel about missing out on what's happening online, driving them to constantly check their phones.
FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
These government-run schools, which Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend, separated them from their families and prohibited them from speaking their languages or practising their cultures.
Residential schools
This is the term for the overall feeling or atmosphere a piece of writing creates in the reader ie. eerie, suspenseful, or joyful.
Mood (accept: tone)
Using social media to repeatedly harass, threaten, or humiliate someone is called this.
Cyberbullying
In the Diné oral story 'Coyote Brings Fire,' what permanent mark does Coyote carry after stealing fire for the First People — and what does this reveal about the purpose of oral stories?
His tail tip was burned black by the fire.
This poem by Edgar Allan Poe is a metaphor for a loss of sanity.
The Haunted Palace
Standing on her balcony, Juliet speaks these lines: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.' Who is she talking about?
Romeo
This literary device involves planting early hints or clues in a story that prepare the reader for events that happen later.
Foreshadowing
This syndrome happens when, after spending time scrolling through other people's photos and posts, teens may feel like everyone else's life is more exciting or successful than theirs.
Imposter syndrome (accept: social comparison)
This national body released a final report in 2015 with 94 Calls to Action, formally recognizing the harm caused by residential schools and calling on Canadians to pursue reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
As he lies dying, this character shouts: 'A plague on both your houses!' cursing both families for his death.
Mercutio
In narrative structure, this is the section where complications and tension build toward the climax — between the introduction of the conflict and its highest point.
Rising action (accept: rising tension)
Every time you receive a like or notification, your brain releases this chemical, the same one linked to addictive behaviour, which makes it hard to put your phone down.
Dopamine
This First Peoples Principles of learning teaches us that mistakes are a part of the process and that learning is a slow process.
Learning takes patience and time
In W.W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw,' the White family wishes for £200 — and the money arrives. What horrifying event delivers it,?
Their son Herbert is killed in a workplace accident, and the £200 arrives as compensation.
This is the name of the theatre where Shakespeare held his plays.
The Globe
This type of narrator may be lying to the reader (or to themselves) providing an incomplete or skewed view of events.
An unreliable narrator
Researchers identify two modes of using social media. Simply scrolling and lurking without interacting is linked to lower well-being. What is this type called, and what is the healthier alternative?
Passive use (scrolling, lurking, comparing) vs. active use (interacting, creating, connecting with people you know)
According to the EFP storytelling readings, when the same Indigenous story is told by different families with slightly different details, one element always stays constant. What is it, and why does this matter?
The theme (and lesson/purpose) stays constant
What element of horror is used when a horror story deliberately withholds the truth, leaving the reader uncertain about what the creature was, whether the protagonist survived, or what really happened?
Ambiguity
The Modern Perspective essay describes Romeo's style of loving as modeled on this literary tradition, named after a 14th-century Italian poet, where the lover idealizes an unattainable woman to develop his individual identity.
Petrarchan love / Petrarchism (named after Petrarch / Francesco Petrarca)
This is the philosophical study of knowledge itself, how we know what we know, and what counts as valid knowledge.
Epistemology