First Lines
Two households, both alike, in dignity
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Doodle, Aunt Nicey, The Narrator
What is the Scarlet Ibis?
This author invented the word eyeball.
Who is Shakespeare?
Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say goodbye til it be morrow.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Main characters motives are entirely driven by a compulsive hunger which leads to destruction and rebirth
What is The Very Hungry Catepillar?
I wasn't prepared to meet a condemned man.
Grendel, Wiglaf, Hrothgar
What is Beowulf?
What is Of Mice and Men?
Please lord, just help me get one more.
What is Hacksaw Ridge?
A young girl contracts a pervasive skin disease on her first day of school. Will lima beans cure her?
What is A Bad Case of The Stripes?
When my brother Jem was almost thirteen, he broke his arm badly.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The Wife of Bath, The Knight, The Miller
What is Canterbury Tales?
This Jane Austen novel was originally titled First Impressions.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
I will be with you on your wedding night.
What is Frankenstein?
Purple Cats, Blue Horses-no I cannot see them, they're not real.
What is Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See?
I WAS born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland.
What is the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
Calpurnia, Soothsayer, Portia
What is The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
This is one of Mrs. Bennett's favorite plays in which a protagonist wishes she could eat the heart of another in a market place.
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
Beat the drum for justice.
What is Just Mercy?
Neglectful parent leaves child alone, feral feline commits breaking and entering felony and impersonates car giver.
" 'Off there to the right--somewhere--is a large island.' "
What is The Most Dangerous Game?
Znaeym, von Gradwitz, wolves
What is the Interlopers?
In this American classic, and one of Ms. Sharfstein's favorites, a golfer cheats at tournaments, a husband cheats on his wife, two wives cheat on their husbands, and the narrator forgets his own birthday. Oh the roaring twenties!
What is the Great Gatsby?
That none shall bury him or mourn for him; he must be left to lie unwept, unburied for hungry birds of prey to swoop and feast upon his poor body.
What is Antigone?
Mom allows accident to repeat itself over and over again, until all five children are suffering from traumatic brain injuries
What is Five Little Monkeys?