Book Series
Research
Math Vocab & Concepts
Social Studies Concepts
College Bound
100
This series involves a boy who was raised by "Muggles," non-magical people, who finds out that he has magical powers and goes to a special school for wizards and meets his two best friends.
What is Harry Potter?
100
These websites cannot be relied on for information because anyone can contribute to them.
What is Wikipedia?
100
1/2 can also be written as this decimal.
What is .5 or .50?
100
In 1838-39, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma in this tragic journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
100
This scholarship and college readiness program is assisted by guidance and Communities in Schools to help students go to college
What is Crosby Scholars?
200
This series is set in Panem, with twelve outlying districts. The Capitol forces the districts to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in an annual fight to the death on live TV.
What is Hunger Games?
200
These sentences are put at the end of your essays and papers to tell where you got your information sources.
What are Citations (or Works Cited)?
200
Two numbers written in a certain order like this (3,4)
What are ordered pairs?
200
This beginning part of the American Constitution includes the first 10 amendments and outlines individual liberties of American citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This North Carolina College system is ranked as 5th among the nation's public school systems and is known for its medical research.
What is UNC?
300
This series has a group of boys who are trapped in the Glade, surrounded by a limitless, ever-changing maze where no one has ever made it through the end alive.
What is The Maze Runner?
300
These sites are good for creating citations easily online.
What is Citation Maker, Easy Bib, or Son of Citation Maker?
300
This angle is less than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
300
This African American 14 year old boy was tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 because he supposedly flirted with a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
This prestigious private school in NC has not only produced the most Rhodes Scholars in the US other than Harvard and the US Military Academy, but is also known for their winning basketball team.
What is Duke University?
400
This series features a girl who must choose which of five factions she wants to be a part of in her society, based on their families, their personalities, and their choices. In this society, being different makes you dangerous.
What is Divergent?
400
You must cite your sources to avoid committing this civil crime. You can be expelled from college for doing this as well.
What is Plagiarism?
400
These kind of lines NEVER intersect.
What are parallel lines?
400
This protest against segregated public facilities in Alabama, which followed the arrest of Rosa Parks,was led by Martin Luther King Jr. and lasted for 381 days. Daily Double!!!!
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
This public NC college is the largest public university system in NC and is known for its engineering and veterinary programs.
What is NC State?
500
This series is about a boy who finds out he is half god, half mortal, and that he must go to a summer camp for the children of Greek gods every year to train and to be protected.
What is The Lightning Thief (or Percy Jackson and the Olympians)?
500
This style of citation and paper writing is most commonly used in high school and undergraduate college classes.
What is MLA or Modern Language Association?
500
Found when adding a set of numbers and taking the average or dividing by the number of values in a set.
What is the mean? (must be the mean, not just the average)
500
This influential Supreme Court case desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
500
All students interested in financial aid for college will need to complete this form the year before they attend college and EVERY year they attend afterwards. It enables them to receive scholarships, grants, and loans for college.
What is the FAFSA, Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
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