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Short Stories
To Err is Human
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100

This noun means a partial or total loss of memory.

What is AMNESIA?

100

In this short story, a bachelor tells kids a story about a good girl who gets eaten by a wolf.

What is THE STORYTELLER?

100

It's the error in the sentence below:

Charlie quickly becomes friends with the mouse named Algernon

What is MISSING END PUNCTUATION.

100

When the 2021-2022 school year began, this teacher was in this room.

Who is MS. WELLS?

100

This noun means a system of money in general use in a particular country.

What is CURRENCY?

200

This noun means respect and warm approval.

What is ADMIRATION?

200

This is the title of either of the Pixar short films we watched together in class.

What is FEAST or US AGAIN?

200

It's the error in the sentence below.

The main character in flowers for algernon is charlie gordon.

What is CAPITALIZATION?

200

This was the highest grossing film of 2021.

What is SPIDERMAN: NO WAY HOME?

200

This critter was the most commonly answer for what we saw in each other's inkblots.

What is a BUTTERFLY?

300

This adjective means not discovered or known about; uncertain.

What is OBSCURE?

300

Jimmy Valentine is compared to this symbolic mythical bird in A Retrieved Reformation.

What is a PHOENIX?

300

It's the error in the sentence below.

Because Charlie experienced how it feels to be different.

What is INCOMPLETE SENTENCE?

300

This team won the 2021 Super Bowl LV.

Who are the TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS?

300

This register of speaking is where words, like in the Pledge of Alliegance, never change... so let it go.

What is FROZEN REGISTER?

400

This verb means to prove something to be wrong or false.

What is REFUTE?

400

This was the very first story Mr. Felty greeted the class with.

What is THE PRINCESS AND THE TIN BOX?

400

It's the error in the sentence below.

She wanted good things because he was bad.

What is VAGUENESS?

400

This British singer had the most streamed song of 2021- not "bad" at all.

What is ED SHEERAN (Bad Habits)?

400

This noun means part of the mind that we are less aware of.

What is SUBCONCIOUS?

500

This noun means punishment as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.

What is RETRIBUTION?

500

The setting of this short story is New York in the 1960's.

What is FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON?

500

Above all else, students should avoid this practice where another person's work is passed off as their own.

What is PLAGIARISM?

500

2021 ended on a sad note with the death of this TV "golden" legend.

Who is BETTY WHITE?

500

She was the princess who avoided death for 1001 nights by telling a king stories.

Who is SHEHEZERADE?

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