Unit One Part 1
The finishing clause of the following:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
The number of people who leaped from Equiano's ship.
What is three?
In the film "The Dead Poets Society," this is what Neil wanted to be after graduation.
What is an actor?
What Emily Dickinson's character hears and sees as she is dying in the poem "I heard....."
What is a fly?
What verb tense "waited" is in the following sentence: I waited for you for two hours.
What is past tense?
What Benjamin Franklin wanted the convention to decide on the Constitution.
What is pass or ratify it?
What Phillis Wheatley compared America's Revolutionary Army to.
What is a mighty storm?
What Walt Whitman compared the United States to in Leaves of Grass.
What is a poem?
What the soul selects according to Emily Dickinson.
What is its own society?
What you never use to make a pronoun possessive.
What is an apostrophe?
The number of tribes that Hiawatha formed.
What is five?
The type of building January O'Neil wrote about in "Old South Meeting House."
What is a church?
What Walt Whitman celebrates in "I Hear America Singing."
Who are the everyday workers of America?
What Emily Dickinson compares famous people to.
What are frogs?
The type of pronoun "myself" is in the following sentence: I let myself out.
What is reflexive?
Patrick Henry's famous conclusion to his speech to the Virginia Convention.
What is "Give me liberty or give me death!"
The reason Olaudah Equiano was not shackled during the journey to Barbados.
What is that he was too young to be chained?
What Walt Whitman wanted to hear from the common folk of America, as stated in Song of Myself.
What are their stories?
The three things Emily Dickinson refers to as having solitude.
What are the sea, space, and death?
The tense of the word "have gone" in the following sentence: The students have gone home for the day."
What is present perfect?
The persons that the Declaration of Independence was really aimed at.
Who are the Crowned Heads of Europe?
The person who was baptized at the Old South Meeting House.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The thing Walt Whitman is mourning in "O Captain! My Captain!"
What is the death of Abraham Lincoln?
What Emily Dickinson compares fame to.
What is a fickle food?
The type of verbs these words are: run, drink, and be.
What are irregular verbs?