Bio: Who Am I?
Vocabulary: What's the Word?
One Crazy Summer: Part I
One Crazy Summer: Part II
One Crazy Summer: Part III
100
This American author and poet is best known for her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which brought (him/her) international recognition and acclaim.
Who is Maya Angelou?
100
This word means "ability to read and write: the ability to read and write to a competent level." In other words, it is the ability to read and write and understand what you read and write.
What is literacy?
100
These are the names of the 3 sisters in One Crazy Summer, in order from youngest to oldest.
Who are Fern, Vonetta, and Delphine?
100
THIS stopped the girls from chatting and laughing when they got back from their Excursion to San Fransisco.
What is seeing Cecile (and 2 Black Panthers) get arrested?
100
These girls are the Clark Sisters who live down the street from Cecile.
Who did Cecile tell the police that Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are?
200
Best known for (his/her) work during the Harlem Renaissance, this American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form, jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This word means "major change: a dramatic change in ideas or practice." Hint: It also means "complete circular turn: one complete circular movement made by something round or cylindrical, e.g. a wheel, around a fixed point."
What is revolution?
200
How long was the girls' trip to visit their mother scheduled to be (days)?
What is 28 days?
200
In the chapter, Expert Colored Counting, THIS ACTOR challenged the girls; they were never able to count the words he was able to say on TV (because he, unlike other Black actors, said to many to count).
Who is Bill Cosby?
200
THIS was Cecile's name for Fern. Delphine went on to tell Fern this was her name, and she and Vonetta teased her about it all the way to the airport.
Who is Afua?
300
This African American writer for children and young adults was awared the Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (first African American to hold the position), to raise national awareness of the importance of lifelong literacy and education. (His/her) books include Hoops, Monster, and Fallen Angels.
Who is Walter Dean Myers?
300
This word means "the study of humankind in all its aspects, especially human culture or human development." Hint: Zora Hurston was a ______ during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is an anthropologist?
300
What name did Cecile go by with the Black Panthers?
Who is Nzila?
300
The girls' first fortune cookie from their Chinatown-made cookie read THIS.
What is "You will travel far."
300
This is the name of the poem the girls assumed was about a mother who lost her children that Cecile wrote. The girls recited it at the Bobby Hutton rally.
What is "I Birthed a Nation"
400
This American folklorist, anthropologist, and author published more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays during the Harlem Renaissance, and is best known for (his/her) 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Hurston?
400
This is defined as "basic rights: rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have, e.g. the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law." Hint: It is what activists like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcom X faught for.
What is civil rights?
400
This is where the girls ate breakfast and attended a summer program.
What is the People's Center?
400
This is the NAME of Vonetta's hypothetical (not real/imagined) daughter, whose performance Vonetta would miss in order to be a Disneyland movie star, making her, in Delphine's eyes, to be just like Cecile.
Who is Lootie Bell?
400
THIS EXPRESSION means "humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position." Hint: Delphine felt this way after telling Sister Mukumbu she and her sisters would not be returning...yet coming back the next day. This is also the name of one of the book chapters.
What is "Eating Crow?"
500
This novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic wrote about racial, sexual, and class distinctions in America. Their most popular works include The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).
Who is James Baldwin?
500
This was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
This person said, "I knew you girls should have never left Brooklyn. You fly out to Oakland and lose your last ounce of common sense."
Who is Big Ma?
500
This young man was the first member of the Black Panthers (other than the leaders). He was the youngest member to "die for the cause" and was only 17 when he passed away.
Who is Bobby Hutton?
500
As described in the chapter, "The Third Thing," THIS is the third thing that happened after Fern recited her poem.
What is Cecile stating that "a poet had been born."
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