Holidays around the world
What winter holiday is celebrated with candles on a menorah?
What is Hanukkah?
Identify the verb tense:
Families gathered to celebrate the holiday.
What is Past Tense?
If you have 12 cookies and give away 4, how many remain?
What is 8?
Identify the figurative language:
The snow blanketed the town.
What is a metaphor?
Who is the main character in A Christmas Carol?
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is most commonly associated with which religion?
What is Hinduism?
Which word correctly completes the sentence?
We’re / Were / Where excited for break.
What is “We’re”?
I come once a year, bring joy, then disappear. What am I?
What is a holiday/Christmas?
Identify the figurative language:
The wind howled through the streets.
What is personification?
What creature tried to steal Christmas in a Dr. Seuss book?
Who is the Grinch?
What holiday marks the end of the year in the Gregorian calendar and is celebrated worldwide?
What is New Year’s Eve?
Which sentence is written correctly?
A) Everyone brought their coats.
B) Everyone brought there coats.
What is A?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an egg?
Identify the figurative language:
The lights twinkled like stars.
What is a simile?
In The Polar Express, what do children ride to the North Pole?
What is a train?
In which country is St. Lucia Day, celebrated with candlelit processions, traditionally observed?
What is Sweden?
Where does the comma belong in the sentence below?
During the holidays families often travel.
What is between holidays and families.
If Christmas is on Monday, what day is Christmas Eve?
What is Sunday?
Identify the figurative language and explain its effect:
“The winter wind whispered warnings through the empty streets.”
What is personification?
In "A Christmas Story" what does Ralphie want for christmas?
What is A Red Ryder BB Gun?
Kwanzaa focuses on which three major ideas?
What are community, culture, and shared values?
Identify the dependent clause:
Although winter break is short, students look forward to it.
What is “Although winter break is short”?
The more you give away, the more you have. What is it?
What is kindness?
What is an allusion? (Hint: Not illusion like magic)
What is - a reference to something.
ex. He was like a modern day grinch!
In "Home Alone" what are the names of the two crooks who try to break into Kevin's house?
Who are - Harry and Marv?