Poetry
Fiction
Books of the Bible
My Side of the Mountain
Nonfiction
100
In the poem, The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be, by Nikki Giovanni, the poet gives human traits of laughing and kissing tears to an ocean and clouds.
What is personification?
100
This one word author wrote about classmates comfortable with the fact that they were S.O.R. Losers.
Who is Avi?
100
This book gives us the story of God saving the Hebrews from slavery.
What is Exodus?
100
Five items Sam Gribley brought with him on his journey.
What are a penknife, ball of cord, an ax, $40 dollars, and flint and steel.
100
In the biography "To Live in Two Worlds," from what nation or Native American tribe is Lynn?
What is Navajo?
200
This technique/literary device was used to convey motion in the poem, From Whitman, by Consuelo Posloncec, a 6th grader, on her way to school. You wrote a poem about a busy scene using these types of words.
What are sensory words?
200
This character had to deal with the death of her father and her best friend going away to school in this story by Jacqueline Woodson.
Who is Margaret or Margaret Tory?
200
This book tells the story of Noah and the Flood.
What is Genesis?
200
Helped Sam find the Gribley Farm?
Who is Miss Turner or the librarian?
200
In the selection "Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure" these Egyptians took steps to rescue the tattered remains of some of the royal mummies whose graves had been looted. They found an abandoned tomb and secretly transferred the mummies to the new hiding place.
Who are the priests?
300
This poem by Myra Cohen Livingston, describes the title. "So small a thing This __________ lies, Closed in death Red-lidded eyes, While, underneath The swaddled clothes, Brown arms, brown legs ......
What is "Mummy"?
300
In Gary Soto's story "Seventh Grade" the character has spent his summer picking this fruit to buy school clothes.
What are grapes?
300
In the book of Genesis God makes this type of agreement with Noah and his descendants to never flood the earth again.
What is a covenant?
300
Sam burned out the inside of a hemlock tree to make his house. He had read that Native Americans had done this to make something else.
What is a canoe or dugout canoe?
300
Dr. Robert Ballard, while exploring the wreckage of the Titanic discovered that it was covered with a substance in which he made up a name.
What are rusticles?
400

Mel Glenn wrote a poem entitled, Cecilia Dowling (One year later) in this format.

What is a letter?

400
"The Talking Earth" and "My Side of the Mountain" were both written by this author.
Who is Jean Craighead George?
400
Poems or hymns that can be prayers.
What is the Book of Psalms?
400
Sam believes that this is the best way to preserve his fish or deer meat.
What is smoking it?
400
At first, Ballard and his crew mistook this object to be a human skull.
What is a doll's head?
500
The poet, Nikki Giovanni, wrote "The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be". She is also mentioned in another story in the first unit.
What is Last Summer With Maizon?
500

Brent Ashbrenner, the author of "To Live in Two Worlds" tells us that Lynn leaves the reservation for what reason?

What is to go back east to a boarding school?

500
Written messages from one person or group to another. Many of these were written by St. Paul
What are letters or epistles?
500
Sam first thought that Bando was someone running away from the police. Bando saw and was impressed with all Sam had accomplished and gave him this famous author's name.
Who is Thoreau?
500
Ballard had chosen not to remove anything from the Titanic wreckage, but he did leave something.
What is a memorial plaque?
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