Black History Month
FANBOYS
Prepositions
The House on Mango Street
100
This annual observance was first proposed by black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969.
What is Black History Month?
100
A type of sentence that is created by fusing together two independent clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS).
What is a compound sentence?
100
Words that show relationships between nouns and other parts of sentences and that tell about where and when.
What are prepositions?
100
A literary device that is found throughout The House on Mango Street and is a figure of speech that directly compares two things using words such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
200
On August 28, 1963, this civil rights activist gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
The coordinating conjunction in the following sentence:
I was in first period, and the teacher asked us to write a big compound sentence with no errors.
What is "and"?
200
The preposition that describes where the apple is in relation to the box:
What is "on"?
200
The narrative perspective used in The House on Mango Street.
What is first-person narrative perspective?
300
The writer of this popular YA novel:
Who is Angie Thomas?
300
This type of grammatical error:
You don't know me, you act like you do.
What is a comma splice error?
300
The word in the following sentence that can function as a preposition or as a coordinating conjunction:
I fought for my friends.
What is "for"?
300
The six (6) characters who were introduced in the opening vignette of The House on Mango Street.
Who are Mama, Papa, Kiki, Carlos, Nenny, and Esperanza?
Must provide names for Esperanza's siblings.
400
The writer who created the following quotation in "The Fourth of July": "The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington, D.C., that summer I left childhood was white..." (REDACTED CITATION).
Who is Audre Lorde?
400
The coordinating conjunction in the following sentence:
I wanted boba early in the morning, so I got into my car and turned it on.
What is "so"?
400
The preposition in the following sentence:
Apropos the proposed changes, I think more information is needed.
What is "apropos"?
400
The name that Nenny doesn't use at home. This name is described by Esperanza as "uglier than mine" (Cisneros 11).
What is Magdalena?
500
A contemporary American poet and activist who recited her poetry at the inauguration of President Biden and at this year's Super Bowl pregame ceremony.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
500
This coordinating conjunction reverses subject-verb order:
He didn't like the shoes, ____ did he like the socks.
What is "nor"?
500
This word can also act as a preposition, but in the following sentence is functioning as an infinitive:
I want to go.
What is "to"?
500
In vignette #4, "My Name," this is one of the new names that Esperanza "would like to baptize [her]self under..." (Cisneros 11).
What is Lisandra, Maritza, or Zeze the X?