Trash vortex
The Harlem Renaissance
Literary terms
Other vocab
Popular culture
100
These tiny pieces of plastic get broken down and enter into our bodies and food
What are microplastics?
100
Lift every voice and _________
sing
100
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” is an example of this literary device
What is alliteration?
100
This filmmaking technique moves the focus closer to one part of the frame.
What is zooming in?
100
This Baton Rouge based rapper uses the phrase “Never Broke Again” in his official stage name.
Who is NBA Youngboy?
200
What is the author’s purpose in telling us about microplastics?
inform us, tell us they’re dangerous, try to find a solution etc
200
In this story by Paul Laurence Dunbar, a boy learns a lesson about perseverance after he drops his gun with a knife attached to it
What is "The Boy and the Bayonet?"
200
“I was like a god on the basketball court” is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
200
“No experience in my life could’ve given me a better understanding of the definition of the word finite. What we have out there is all we have. There is no more.” (52) What does the word finite mean as it is used in this sentence?
Something that ends
200
This video-focused social networking platform is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
What is TikTok?
300
An expert who works for a plastic company says plastic manufacturing is not to blame. Is he biased or not biased?
He is biased.
300
Harlem is a borough of this city
What is New York?
300
“My computer doesn’t want to cooperate with me today” is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
300
This is the author's overall point, which she supports using evidence.
What is the main idea?
300
According to Washington Post reviewer Michael O’Sullivan, this film requires watching a “syllabus” of Wandavision, the first Dr. Strange, and more.
What is Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness?
400
These little balls of plastic recently spilled all over a beach in China
What are nurdles?
400
This Richmond neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the South
What is Jackson Ward?
400
“Boing” is an example of this literary device.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The root word "aqua" means the word is going to have to do with this.
What is water?
400
This scary film franchise from director James Wan has the same title as one of our vocab words, which means when something seems okay until it’s too late-- a word that could also describe plastic pollution.
What is "Insidious?"
500
This word means spinning whirlpool
What is a gyre?
500
This important play helped integrate Broadway audiences
What is "Shuffle Along?"
500
"In New York it's impossible to do anything without spending a million billion dollars." This literary device also means "exaggeration."
What is hyperbole?
500
If you don't know a word so you read around it, you are using this strategy.
What is context clues?
500
This enemy of Spongebob Squarepants is also a real species of animal that provides a food source for whales and other sea creatures.
Who / what is plankton?