Greatest American Hero
Past Units
ELA Antics
Multiple Intelligence
Poetic Pondorings
100
She would not go to the back of the bus, and for Civil Rights this made a big fuss.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
A struggle for life amidst the strife, this novelle tells of man and marlin fighting it out for the prideful win.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
100
etc. means?
... and more, and the rest
100
This is the intelligence that is able to discern sounds with thier pitch, tones, rhythm, and tymbre.
What is musical intelligence?
100
Song or Sonnet?
“And you call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest”
Song - Taylor Swift's "All Too Well"
200
He an all around great athlete with an upstanding character. He was also the very first African American to play in major league baseball.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
200
Characters in this novel:
What is The Outsiders?
200
The ELA term for the words that would acompany the images:
What are antonyms?
200
This intelligence type understands living things and ight be a natural at starting a camp fire or knowing what berries are good for eating.
What is a naturalist?
200
Song or Sonnet?
"My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare."
Sonnet by Shakespeare
300
Harvey Washington Wiley was a chemist for this American enterprise that deals with produce, and he was the founder of modern food safety.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
300
The novel: Lad Overhauled of Banded Nocturnal Duds
What is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
300
This health-related word evolved from a Middle English term describing the venom of a snake which came from a Latin word meaning "slimy liquid or poison?"
What is "virus"?
300
The icon for this intelligence type:
What is existential?
300
The name of the poem an poet:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe and "The Raven"?
400
The American nurse who founded the American Red Cross Association.
Who was Clara Barton?
400
"Good words do not last long unless they amount to something." This leader (name his title) appealed to the U.S. Congress on behalf of a poorly treated people group.
Who is Chief? - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indian tribe.
400
These two letters are tied for being the most valuable (10 points each) in a typical game of English-language Scrabble.
What are Q and Z?
400
The icon for the intelligence type:
What is interpersonal?
400
Fill in the blank:
Hope is the thing with _______
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
feathers
A poem by Emily Dickinson
500
Famous for this show, that was different from the normal cartoon flow, Steve and his pet were on a cartoon set.
What is Blues Clues?
500
A mythical Moses who led with ruthless determination.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
From the Latin word for "earth," this is a synonym for an outdoor patio?
What is terrace?
500
Could be an icon for this intelligence type:
What is linguistic?
500
He wrote the epic poems,
“Iliad” and “Odyssey”
Who is Homer?
600
Acting in radially mixed romantic scenes, she was able to overcome restrictive laws. She also helped raise funds for war relief during WWII.
Who was Anna May Wong?
600
Jewish "children found refuge" in this Paris palace where "heroic Muslims hid them from the Nazis.
What is The Grand Mosque of Paris?
600
What this 60's slang means:
"Let's jet this groovy pad for a bean wagon."
"Let's get out of this awesome house and go to a cheap restaurant."
600
The condition where one may see numbers as colors and smell words.
What is synesthesia?
600
The poetic device used in the language of this poem:
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is personification?