Grammar
A word that takes the place of a proper noun.
Pronoun
Who was Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos?
The authors of "Sugar Changed the World"
The main character's name in "The Last Cuentista."
Petra
In the text "We've Got a Job to Do" who grew up poor living in a tenement house.
Washington Booker III
Pass your question to another team. If they get it right, they receive the points. If they get it wrong, you have another chance to figure out the answer.
Choose a selection.
Read the sentence and determine the dependent clause.
Before you leave, can we talk?
Before you leave
Determine the country that Marina Budhos family had come from.
India
Explain the main character's mission after she woke up from the cog after 300 years.
Her mission was to locate her family.
Mother, father, brother.
Explain the meaning behind the poem " a girl named jack"
This poem was about Jacqueline Woodson's parents disagreeing over the naming of their daughter.
If you ask another team for the answer. You will only earn half the points if they get it correct, and they will earn the remainder.
Hint the country is close to China.
What is a dangling modifier?
A modifier that describes something that has been left out of the sentence.
What is Jundi Shapur?
The school that created the very first teaching hospital.
or
The university that studied sugar.
Why did the humans have to leave Earth?
Hailey's comet
Name the poem that describes J. Woodson's great-great grandfather's and his son's story.
"it'll be scary sometimes"
Dangling Modifier
You can ask for a hint, but you only gain 100 points.
Hint: It is missing.
Determine the prepositions in the sentence.
They walked right past the cereal and headed to the cookies.
Past, to
By 1753, British ships transported an average ____ slaves every year.
How many slaves were transported?
Close to 35,000
Who in Petra's life reappeared but as an old man?
You have to explain his previous name or current name.
Epsilon-5 or Javier
CORE was group that included white and black integrationists.
What does the "C" in ORE stand for?
C_____ O-of, R- Racial, E-Equality
Congress
J. Woodson's poem about her great-great grandfather.
Hint: The way the world may make you feel at times. Use that word to figure out the hint.
Scared
Determine the meaning of the metaphor or simile.
Novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane:
"In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun..."
The sun is setting in the sky
Toussaint
What happens at the end of "The Last Cuentista?"
Petra, Voxy and the Zeta's leave the cave and find a new home on Sagan.
Name the student from "We've Got a Job to Do" who skipped many grades to attend high school.
James Stewart
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