Vocabulary
Short Stories
Civil War
Writing/Essays
Outsiders
100
death
What is "mort"?
100
his eye
What is what the main character in "Tell-Tale Heart" said "vexed" him about the old man?
100
Minnesota
What is the state Charley came from in Soldier's Heart?
100
Five
What is the minimum number of sentences every paragraph should have?
100
The narrator of the book.
What is Ponyboy?
200
spec
What is "to look"?
200
The number of total guests the landlady had at her bed and breakfast
What is three?
200
The state that had the most soldiers volunteer per capita.
What is Iowa?
200
The two places a thesis statement goes in any five paragraph essay.
What is in the introductory paragraph (at the end) and the conclusion paragraph (at the beginning)?
200
The two groups ("gangs") that collided in the book.
What is the Greasers and the Socs?
300
Study of time
What is "chronology"?
300
The person who always drew for the family in "The Lottery."
What is the father (or son if the father was gone).
300
The side Pink and Say fought on during the war.
What is the Union?
300
Student and professor forever bonded together.
What is a 6-word memoir for the book/movie "Tuesdays with Morrie"?
300
The two boys that went into hiding.
What is Johnny and Ponyboy?
400
across over beyond change
What is "trans"?
400
The word the Raven repeated multiple times in Poe's "The Raven."
What is nevermore?
400
Union and Confederacy
What is the two sides that fought in the American Civil War?
400
Brainstorm
What is the second step in an on-demand writing assessment (ABCD writing process)?
400
The place where the two boys hid out after Bob's murder.
What is a church on Jay Mountain?
500
pedarchy
What is "rule/reign by a child"?
500
The third wish in "The Monkey's Paw."
What is to not have the son come back from the dead (or to un-wish the second wish of bringing the son back from the dead).
500
The side that won the American Civil War.
What is the Union?
500
The most common in-text citation when using the ICE method.
What is the author's last name and page number?
500
Because their parents died.
What is why the Curtis boys all lived together with the oldest brother "in charge"?
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