From Story to Screen
An intelligent but often aloof British detective along with his doctor sidekick solve a variety of mysteries.
Sherlock Holmes
Room number of your English class.
B-71
When an author compares two things using like or as.
Simile
Jonas (The Giver)
A great method for learning vocabulary using a 3x5 card.
Vocabulary Flashcards
A humble hobbit inherits a powerful piece of jewelry that he and his friends must destroy in order to save the world from an evil force.
Lord of the Rings
The mascot of BCCHS.
The Patriots
When an author uses an object to represent something greater than the object itself.
Symbolism
This young boy finds out that his father is one of the Greek Gods.
Percy Jackson
Annotation
A young teen with cancer meets another young teen who lost his leg to cancer and they fall in love.
The Fault in Their Stars
The number of minutes in a passing period.
Ten
When the author gives hints at something that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing.
He who shall not be named.
Voldemort
The name for the process of generating ideas before conducting research, writing a paper, or solving a problem.
Brainstorming
Leaders from the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and Essos vie for the opportunity to sit atop the Iron Throne.
The names of the two Freshman counselors.
Ms. Hinojoas-Riusech and Ms. Fuentes
When a writer gives human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
She volunteers as tribute.
Katniss Everdeen
A specific note taking method created by a professor a top university wherein you write main ideas in the left column, notes in the right column, and a summary at the end.
Cornell Notes
A mad scientist creates a monster from human remains.
Frankenstein
The name of the BCCHS principal.
Mrs. Tracie Bowdoin
When the name of word also generates the sound associated with the word.
Onomatopoeia
The narrator who follows Liesel Meminger as she interacts with her foster parents, friends, and strangers in Germany during World War II.
Death
The process of finding an answer on a multiple choice test by crossing out incorrect answers until you are left with one answer.
Process of elimination.