8th Grade ELA
ELA Vocab
8th Grade History/Social Studies
Parts of Speech
8th Grade Pop Culture
100

Author of "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven"

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

100

Having a lot of wisdom

What is Sagacity?

100

First Continental Congress (location)

Where is Philadelphia?

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

This person created Facebook?

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

200

This writer married his cousin and had a gambling problem

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

200

Having just enough, but not too much.

What is sufficient?

200

This is the decade the Vietnam took place

What is the 70's?

200

This modifies a noun

What is adjective?

200

In 2020, the most important social media app for teens (ahead of TikTok)

What snapchat?

300

Word meaning perceptive or sharp

What is acute?

300

When something is stated in the text in an obvious, literal way.

What is explicit?

300

American woman who aided wounded soldiers during Civil War

Who is Clara Barton?

300

This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when

What is a preposition?

300

This is the most popular sport in America

What is Football?

400

Words that mean the same thing

What is Synonyms?

400

Extremely bold or aggressive

What is audacity?

400

India is located on which Continent?

What is Asia? 

400

A word that describes action or a state of being

What is a verb?

400

This is the number of Harry Potter movies

What is 8?

500

Something that is false and true at the same time

What is a paradox?
500

with increasing energy and passion

What is vehemently?

500

Mountain range that extends from New Mexico to Canada

What is Rocky Mountains?

500

To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text

What is annotation?

500

Uses the metaphor 'My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends' in one of her songs.

Who is Billie Eilish?

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