Vocabulary
Denotation
What is a word’s dictionary meaning
How can we come together despite our differences?
What is together and differences?
What is how the city illustrates how the father's life is in conflict with his culture?
Question Type
What is a written response
Favorite Color Favorite Color
What is Royal Purple
Connotation
What is the images or feelings you connect to a word add a finer shade of meaning
What is the theme of this story? Explain how Gordimer develops this theme through the story’s setting.
What is Theme, Setting, Evidence
"in the night I heard / his buffalo grunts like a snore”? is imagery that develops what idea?
What is the father's true self is with his native culture?
Item needed
What is evidence
Favorite way to relax
What is Video Games
Professor Susan Lee is considered the most erudite and honored member of the mathematics department at the university.
A difficult to get along with
B elderly
C honored
D learned
D learned
What actions do the husband, wife, and their neighbors do again and again because of their fear of outsiders? How does this reveal the story’s theme?
What is the husband, wife, and neighbor's actions, and theme.
Yohnatan's primary motivation for creating the documentary?
What is to create footage that can be used as social commentary?
T/F - there can be more than one
What is True
Birth State
What is Virginia
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisions a society whose members have been indoctrinated in the culture's very materialistic values.
A instructed in the beliefs of a group
B made clear
C stained intensely
D made into doctors
A instructed in the beliefs of a group
How does the text structure—a personal essay—enable the author to deliver his message effectively? Explain your answer using examples from the text.
What is text structure, message, evidence
T/F - Underline/highlight words in the question to understand how to answer the question
What is True?
Favorite place lived
What is El Paso?
Mary Queen of Scots impugned Elizabeth’s right to the throne of England, attacking her continually.
A supported as logical
B challenged as false
C favored
D emphasized
B challenged as false
Think about the Memory Moments you noticed during this story. What skills and habits did the author learn as a child soldier that helped him both in New York and in the paintball game?
What is memory moments, skills, and habits, also mention New York and Paintball Game.
In Texas v. Johnson Majority Opinion, Justice Brennan cites the Constitution as evidence to validate his argument. How will Brennan’s document most likely be viewed in the future?
What is it will also set a precedent for future legal matters?
T/F - The Letter you just wrote was an Informational Letter
What is False, it was an Argumentative/Letter of Correspondence (DOUBLE POINTS FOR BOTH)
Years in Education
4 years