Semester 1
The part of a story where we learn about the characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
The moral center of a story, or the lesson the reader learns.
A boy's toys come to life and participate in wild adventures in this animated Pixar movie series.
What is Toy Story?
Released in 2012, this flagship film launched a billion dollar franchise, based on the works of comic book writer Stan Lee.
The city is known for this "dish"... some people love it, others think it shouldn't be considered this type of food at all.
What is deep dish pizza?
Literary device that compares two things using the word "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Jonah Hill, Taika Waititi, Drake, and Rashida Jones are all descendants of this ethnicity.
What is Judaism?
Jets and Sharks vie for their respective territories in the Bronx in this movie-musical.
What is West Side Story?
These movies were based on the dystopian trilogy written by Suzanne Collins.
What are the "Hunger Games"?
The approximate population of Chicago, the United States' third largest city.
What is three million?
The author of Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
When the audience knows something the characters don't.
What is Dramatic Irony?
All a boy wants for Christmas is a Red Rider bee-bee gun, but all the adults in his life won't stop telling him "you'll shoot your eye out."
What is A Christmas Story?
What is The Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Home to major sports teams like the Cubs, Bears, and Bulls, this is the name of Chicago's WNBA team.
Who are the Sky?
What is twenty?
He errantly informs Romeo that Juliet has passed away, setting in motion the fatal events of Act V in Romeo & Juliet.
Who is Balthasar?
An anthology TV series that follows the extraordinary and supernatural, often dealing in gore, horror, thriller, and suspense.
What is "American Horror Story"?
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this adaptation of an American classic follows a rich bachelor's attempts to win back the heart of a long-lost love.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The name of the tallest building in the city.
What is the Sears (or Willis) Tower?
The antagonist's name in the story "The Most Dangerous Game."
Who is General Zaroff?
Elie Wiesel was sent to Auschwitz and this other concentration camp, as he tells it in his memoir Night.
What is Buchenwald?
What is "The Story of an Hour"?
He stars in the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Michael B. Jordan?
The city Mr. Davis will miss deeply, due in large part to the students who made it such a special place.
What is Fargo?