Plot & Narrative
Social Survival Guide
Mesopotamia & Sumer
Body Systems & Levels of Organization
Order in the Court (PEMDAS)
100

The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., First Person or Third Person).

What is point of view?

100

This is the specific, high-pitched noise a student makes when they realize they just accidentally liked a post from 84 weeks ago while "researching" a crush.

What is a Gasp (or "The Sound of Fear")?

100

Mesopotamia means the "land between" these two specific rivers.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

100

This is the basic building block of all living things.

What is a cell?

100

Evaluate 12 + 4 x 2

What is 20?

200

he part of the story where the background information, characters, and setting are introduced.

What is the exposition? (or Introduction)

200

This is the specific "cough" used in front of parents to prove you are definitely too ill for the Math test, but will be fine for gaming by 3:30 PM.

What is the Fake/Performative Cough?

200

To control the water supply, Sumerians built these systems of canals and dams.

What is Irrigation?

200

A group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function.

What is tissue?

200

According to the Order of Operations, this is the first thing you should simplify.

What are Parentheses?

300

The turning point or the most intense moment of a story.

What is the climax?

300

This is the panic-inducing moment when you’re "sick" at home and hear the distinct chime of a FaceTime call from your best friend who is currently in the middle of Social Studies.

What is a Pocket Dial (or a "Snitch Call")?

300

These were small, independent settlements with their own laws and government.

What are City-States?

300

This body system is responsible for transporting nutrients, oxygen, and waste products throughout an organism.

What is the circulatory system?

300

Evaluate  20 / 22 + 3.

What is 8?

400

The central message, lesson, or "moral of the story."

What is theme?

400

This footwear choice is a bold move for PE class, usually resulting in the student sliding across the gym floor like they’re on ice.

What are Crocs (in 2-wheel drive/relaxed mode) or Slides?

400

This geographic problem in the Zagros Mountains forced people to move to the plains.

What is a Food Shortage?

400

This level of organization is formed when multiple types of tissues work together to perform complex functions. Example: the heart or lungs.

What is an organ?

400

Evaluate 5 x (3 + 2)2.

What is 125?

500

A struggle between two opposing forces, which can be internal or external.

What is conflict?

500

The "Hoodie Rule" usually states that while you can wear the sweatshirt, you cannot do this with the hood while inside the building.

What is Put it over your head?

500

These earthen walls were built along the riverbanks to prevent flooding.

What are Levees?

500

This process describes how an organism maintains a stable internal environment despite changes in the outside world.

What is homeostasis?

500

Place parentheses in 10 + 2 x 3 - 1 to make the value equal 35.

What is (10 + 2) x 3 - 1?

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