prefixes/vocab
if the prefix mono means one, this is the meaning of poly
What are many?
In Michelle Sorres's poem, Mi Problema, what is the theme or her biggest struggle?
What is not being "Enough of her culture" or being too American? She does not fit in with her Latina friends.
This famous author was born here.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This is what you should do when you meet a new person. Give them a firm handshake and look at them here.
What is in the eye?
The next US Presidential Election is in this year.
What is 2020?
This prefix means wrong or against, like what you add to the word behave.
What is mis?
In the "Conversation Piece" we read where it is a murder mystery that is never stated, what was the big reading strategy we had to use since nothing was EXPLICITLY stated. Think about figurative language like "head over heels"
What is reading between the lines?
Waukegan lies just to the west of this Great Lake.
What is Lake Michigan?
When you answer the phone hello and someone asks if this is you, (Anne, for example), this is how you respond grammatically correct: either this is he or she or this is him or her
What is this is he or she?
This is the award the best musician receive each year to celebrate their work.
What is a grammy award?
This word means an African landscape and is also the title of Ray Bradybury's short story.
What is the Veldt?
in "Thank You, Ma'Am" by the celebrated author Langston Hughes, Mrs. Luelle Bates Washington Jones shows tremendous empathy. Name one act of kindness she shows to Roger, the protagonist.
What is not taking him to the police? Or, what is feeding a hungry boy? Or, what is giving a stranger who tried to take your purse money to buy blue suede shoes?
Waukegan is home to the country's coolest after school programming and summer activities where students have fun and learn how to be successful in school and life.
What is Beacon Place? (had to!)
He is the science guy.
Who is Bill Nye?
Israel and Qatar are both in the news for different reasons. They both lie on the continent of Asia, but are more often referred to in this region of the world.
What is the Middle East?
If an octogenarian is a person who is in their 80's, what is a centenarian?
A person who is 100 or more years old.
The author of Chasing Darkness, Billy Jensen, is not a detective by training. This is his profession.
What is a journalist or writer?
This is the current Mayor of Waukegan and its first African American mayor.
Who is Sam Cunningham?
This is what an additional day is when added to the calendar and it is happening in 2020!
What is a leap year?
This phone app is the most popular of all time.
What is Facebook?
Think about the word bicentennial. The United States celebrated its bicentennial birthday in 1976. Now, if oil in a car should be changed bi-annually, how often should it be changed?
What is twice a year?
This is the genre of literature one would categorize Ray Bradbury's short story, "The Veldt."
What is science fiction?
In which direction is Kenosha from Waukegan?
What is north?
Complete this dumb pun: This is why a student threw her watch out of the school window.
What is she wanted time to fly!
This country was formerly part of the Soviet Union and is now in the middle of a huge dispute about "potentially" receiving money from the United States in return for a favor for President Trump.
What is the Ukraine?