Reading
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Miscellaneous Trivia
100

This short story had a main character named Adam Zebrin, who changes from a bitter and gloomy kid to a pleasant life form.

What is Zebra

100

The part of speech that describes a person, place, or thing.

What is an adjective

100

The very useful tool, paid for by the county, that allows students to keep track of their citations.

What is NoodleTools

100

A grouping of lines in a poem.

What is a stanza

100

The day we always had Writer's Notebook prompts.

What is Friday

200

Life on Mars wasn't easy for Harry Bittering in this Ray Bradbury short story.

What is "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"

200

The part of speech that takes the place of a noun.

What is a pronoun

200

The paragraph of an essay that restates the thesis in new language, reviews the previous main points, and ends with a final sentence that concludes, inspires, or motivates.

What is the conclusion paragraph

200

The literary device often used in poetry that is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. 

What is alliteration

200

The name of Ms. Carleton's daughter.

What is Edith (or Edie)

300

The invention Prometheus gave humans despite Zeus' warning not to.

What is fire

300

The verb tense of the following sentence: "Back in the day I could swim 4 miles in 30 minutes! It was awesome."

What is past tense

300

This gives your essay a purpose; without one, the essay doesn't make a clear point.

What is a thesis statement

300

The type of figurative language used in the following excerpt from "The Rose that Grew from Concrete": 

"Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk without having feet."

What is personification

300

The team that won Field Day.

What is the blue team

400

The theme of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street".

What is, "Fear and suspicion can cause normal, peaceful people to turn on one another."

400

The type of sentence this is (simple, compound, compound-complex): "After the officer pulled Tim over, Tim began to cry, and the officer took pity on him".

What is a compound-complex sentence

400

This is where you can find credible research and resources for your writing assignments. 

What are the AACPS Online Resources (databases)

400

The common theme among "Midway," "As I Grew Older," and "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".

What is, "No matter what stands in the way of your dream, you can always find your dream and fight for it."

400

The two Advisory rotation lessons you learned about in Ms. Carleton's room.

What are "Homophone Escape Room" and "E-mail Etiquette"

500

The topic of "Like Black Smoke".

What is The Black Plague

500

The type of phrase used in the following sentence: "My brother's car, a sporty red convertible with bucket seats, is the envy of my friends."

What is an appositive phrase

500

The location of the tagline in the following sentence: "Hey Mom!" I yelled as I can running into the house, "where are you?"

What is the middle

500

The type of figurative language that is used in the following excerpt from "Midway":

"I'm climbing to the highway from my old dirt track"

What is a metaphor

500

These were the eight novel choices offered this year (all quarters combined).

What are: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Red Kayak, Gifted Hands, Anne Frank, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Ravenmaster's Secret, The Cay, One Crazy Summer

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