Grammar
Vocab
Literature
PHS
Stuff You Should Know
100

A person place or thing.

What is a noun?

100

A short autobiography about an event or time in the author's life.

What is a memoir?

100

This man invented the printing press.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

100

He is the head football coach.

Who is J.B. Wallace?

100

You should change the oil in your car at this many miles.

What is every 3,000 to 5,000?

200

A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.

What is an adjective?

200

Anything you can sense with your five senses that is described in writing.

What is imagery? 

200

This man was a founding father and owned several newspapers in colonial America.

Who is Benjamin Franklin? 

200

He is the vice principal of the ninth-grade hall.

Who is Coach Thornton?

200

There are this many days in a school year.

What is 187?

300

A word that tells a state of being.

What is a linking verb?

300

A means to an end or a tool.

What is expedient? 

300

He was an early American writer who moved out into the woods alone.

Who is Henry David Thoreau?

300

She is the vice principal of the tenth-grade hall.

Who is Ms. Stallworth?

300

There should be this many sentences in a paragraph.

What depends on the paragraph?

400

A first-person plural pronoun.

What is we or us?

400

Children or future generations.

What is posterity? 

400

He wrote what is considered the first novel, Robinson Crusoe.

Who is Daniel Defoe?

400

This team sport went further in the playoffs than any other at PHS last year.

What is the girls' varsity basketball team?

400

Traditions, customs, entertainment, and habits that a group shares.

 What is culture?

500

The articles "a, an, the" belong to this part of speech.

What are adjectives?

500

To get rid of something (usually in reference to slavery).

What is abolition?

500

He wrote the famous allegory, Pilgrims Progress.

Who is John Bunyan?

500

He is the coach of the bowling team.

Who is Coach Strickland?

500

Passing most of your classes depends on this.

What is showing up to school?

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