Royal Bay Trivia 1
What is our classroom number?
1183
What mark of punctuation would you put between tw independent clauses, when a FANBOY was there?
Comma
This author was one of Canada's most famous "Indigenous" authors...until it was discovered that he wasn't Indigenous at all. We read his non-fiction text "The Truth about Stories."
Thomas King
What's the name of our Indigenous ed teacher?
Chelsea
What is our school's motto?
"Together we are more"
What year was Royal Bay school built?
2015
What literary device makes a comparison without using like or as?
A metaphor
This Indigenous author wrote the story "Three Feathers" and "Whistle" (among many others!)
Richard Van Camp
Coast Salish weavers use hair from this animal to make beautiful blankets and clothing items for centuries.
What is the name of our school's theatre company?
The Black Wing Theatre Company
What 2 traditional territories is our school built on?
Esquimalt & Songhees Nations
What kind of sentence has one dependent clause and one independent clause?
Complex sentence
This Richard Van Camp story tells the story of Darcy, a young man who writes letters from a group home to the victim of his bullying. What's the name of the boy Darcy writes to?
Brody
This introduced plant has been used for centuries for food and medicine by the Coast Salish people. The roots, flowers and leaves are all edible; the root makes a coffee-like substitute.
dandelion
What is the name of our school theatre?
Teechamitsa
Who is Ryder Hesjedal?
A Canadian retired professional cyclist who competed 1988-2016
What are the most common coordinating conjunctions?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
This Indigenous artist/author is famous for his coffee table books. He graduated from Oak Bay High School in 1965 and built his own art gallery in Tofino in 1986.
Roy Henry Vickers
What local languages are spoken by Indigenous communities?
Sencoten and Hulquiminum.
Royal Bay is built at the site of an old gravel pit. What remains were found while the area was being developed?
remains of woolly mammoths.
What is a group of ravens (not crows) called?
A conspiracy of ravens or in older European folklore they were called an unkindness of ravens
This punctuation mark introduces a list, explanation, or quotation.
colon
When this Anishinaabe writer/journalist was 17, he went to Germany for an international youth exchange program. While there, he wrote about his experiences as "a'nish teen" in a European country. He wrote "Moon of the Crusted Snow".
Waubgeshig Rice
In 1956, the tallest freestanding totem pole in the world was raised in Beacon Hill Park. This master carver led the team that made it. It was carved at the ceremonial Big House at Thunderbird Park on the RBCM grounds. This artist also hosted the first legal public potlatch after the ban was lifted.
Mungo Martin
Besides Sencoten language words about unity, respect and integrity, what symbols are on the Royal Bay school crest?
A raven, a feather, a cedar branch, mountains and ocean.