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400

The field of study for Dr. Louise Banks in the film Arrival or its short story counterpart. If you loved Language and Culture, it might be the field for you.

What is Linguistics?

400

The setting of this novel was so immersive that its 1938 radio adaptation of the same name caused mass panic as listeners began to genuinely believe aliens were invading. 

What is War of the Worlds?

400

An independent task to complete during fourth block based on the style of learning on which our school is founded.

What is Student Led Project Based Learning?

400

Need new career ideas? Check out this website and take their career quiz and learn more about jobs you like, it's a great first step for an informational interview.

What is Xello?

400
This former MG21 English teacher took a sabbatical to Costa Rica.

Who is Joel Jarosky?

400

These three allied countries created a plan to rebuild Europe post-WWII at a conference in Yalta.

What are the USSR, the US, and Great Britain?

800

The title of Ted Chiang's short tale about the non-linear temporal journey of Dr. Louise Banks and her unborn, or already deceased, daughter. 

What is Story of Your Life?

800

JRR Tolkien's book series the Lord of the Rings was profoundly influenced by his experience serving in this conflict.

What is World War 1?

800

Michelle's favorite phrase just before a field trip to the shape of table you can sit at to work with her. 

What is wheels on the bus go round table?

800

Applying for a job? Once you've finished your resume don't forget to work on this personalized document.

What is a cover letter?

800

The original name of the alternative school program in the Monona Grove district run by Rebecca before MG21 was created. 

What is MGAS (Monona Grove Alternative School)?

800

After World War I but prior to it's entrance into World War II, the United States had taken this lonely approach to foreign policy. 

What is isolationism?

1200

To answer the greeting of someone speaking this language, you might respond, "Northeast."

What is Kuuk Thaayorre?

1200

The third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise that took its heroes to the edges of the Earth.

What is Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End?

1200

This fourth block class for reading a book utilizes a phrase to instruct you to form a rounded shape. 

What is Lit Circle Up?

1200

Don't let life after high school get you down! Be ready for your life ahead in C, C, & CR one of our most common pathfinding workshops. These are two of the three "C" words in the acronym. 

What are Community, College and Career?

1200

Standing proudly on the same street corner, this building was home to this school many years before it housed MG21 and its direct predecessor.

What is Nichols Elementary?

1200

Not to be confused with an earlier established division of a country along the 38th parallel, this nation was divided across the 17th parallel at the end of the First Indochina War (or the French War, depending on who you ask...) 

What is Vietnam?

1600

One of the writing systems of Toki Pona, Sitelen Pona, is this type of system, meaning it uses symbols to represent words, rather than letters. 

What is Logographic?

1600

This companion book to the series of novels adapted into HBO's Game of Thrones details the untold histories of the Seven Kingdoms. 

What is The World of Ice and Fire?

1600

Science teacher turns into a vehicle and transports you to River Food Pantry.

What is Michelle Bartman Van?

1600

Come to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to see this vehicle that saw action in Vietnam and is now preserved in its entirety—minus the engine. 

What is a Huey Helicopter?

1600

Nine years before the opening of its Middle Campus, Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School for 21st Century Learning was officially born in this year.

What is 2010?

1600

McCarthy accused this diplomatic government department of housing 205 communists.

What is the State Department?

2000

sina wile toki e loje walo kepeken toki Inli la, sina kepeken e nimi ni.

What is pink?

2000

A widely acclaimed novel (or Brad Pitt movie of the same name) that tells tales of life across America as humanity fights its third global conflict, this time against zombies. 

What is World War Z?

2000

A time to get some studying done but on the main high school's time table. 

What is Elective Project Block Schedule?

2000
While visiting UW Plateville, don't miss their makerspace. It's housed in Sesquicentennial Hall, whose name means this many year anniversary.

What is 150?

2000

Before Bel and Joel, he taught English at MG21.

Who is Ian Lowe?

2000

The Prime Minister of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Nikita Khrushchev

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