Research Writing
“This step helps a researcher decide what they already know and what they still need to learn.”
Brainstorm Writing
This spacing style is used throughout an MLA paper, including the Works Cited page.
Double Spacing
The women in Hidden Figures worked as human computers at which organization?
Nasa
In what decade was The Screwtape Letters first published?
The 1940s
This traveling companion wants a heart, yet shows deep care and emotion from the very beginning.
Sit Thomas More
Which person in our class is most likely to burst out in dancing?
Jefferson
What student at Compass Academy has been banned from the Golden Plunger?
Riley
“A topic like ‘sports’ is too broad, so a student should do this to make it more specific.”
Narrow the Topic
In MLA format, all margins should usually be this size.
1 Inch
Which mathematician calculated the flight trajectory for John Glenn's 1962 orbital mission?
Katherine Johnson
Screwtape is a senior demon writing letters to his nephew. What is the nephew's name?
Wormwood
Odysseus's faithful wife, who spends years weaving and unraveling a shroud to delay her suitors.
Penelope
Which person in our class is most likely to leave behind an origami boat?
Taylor
Which team built the strongest Guillotine?
Girls
“This kind of note includes the exact words from a source and must use quotation marks.”
A Direct Quote
This font and size are commonly recommended for MLA papers.
Times New Roman, 12
At which Virginia facility did most of the events in Hidden Figures take place?
Langley Research Center
What do Screwtape and Wormwood call their master?
Our Father Below
In Julius Ceasar, Caesar speaks these three words — among the most famous in all of Shakespeare — when he sees Brutus among his attackers.
"Et tu, Bruté?"
Which person is most likely to go viral?
Bradley
Which planet has the most moons?
Saturn
Researchers use this to keep track of where information came from.
Citation
This information is usually included in an MLA in-text citation.”
Authors Last name and page number
The Black female mathematicians at NACA were assigned to a segregated section known as what?
The West Computing Group
What is the unnamed human Wormwood is assigned to called throughout the book?
The Patient
The conspirators assassinate Caesar on this date, now one of the most famous days in history.
The Ides of March (March 15th)
Which person in our class is most likely to have the best playlist?
How long does light from the Sun take to reach Earth?
This document assures that students sources are easy to find and accessible.
A Works Cited
If no author is listed, MLA uses this instead in the citation.”
The title of the Source
Mary Jackson had to get special permission to attend a segregated night school to pursue which career?
Aerospace engineer
Screwtape instructs Wormwood to keep the Patient distracted from what, above all?
God and genuine prayer
In The Alchemist, the main character pursues his dreams--what is this called in the book?
Personal Legend
Which person in our class is most likely to be an engineer?
Briella
How many hours have we been in class together over the course of the year?
93
A ".gov" or ".edu" website is generally considered more credible than this type of domain, which anyone can purchas
.com
This appears in the upper-right corner of every page in MLA format.
last name and page number
Dorothy Vaughan taught herself and her team which programming language to prepare for the computing era?
FORTRAN
What happens to Wormwood at the end of the book?
Screwtape eats him
Name one lesson Santiago learns repeatedly throughout the story
that the journey itself, not just the destination, is where real treasure is found.
Which person in our class is most likely to be the real life Katniss Everdeen?
Translate the phrase on on the golden plunger from latin into english.
Obstaculum menti removere — "To remove the obstruction for the mind."