Vocabulary (True or False)
When you alleviate a situation, you make it worse.
What is False. You make it better.
This Poe story looked at what happened when people lock themselves away from society for a long time. This guy really brought down the house.
This Native American leader was captured by the US government and ended up converting to Christianity.
Who is Geronimo?
The novel The Great Gatsby takes a long look at this American idea
What is the American Dream
This setting/time period of "A Rose for Emily" explains why there are racist remarks and men who believe in an outdated sense of honor. Hint: Think of your US History classes.
What is the American South after the Civil War? Also Mississippi?
An example of belittle: Taylor Swift releases a diss track about Kim Kardashian.
What is True
Jacob Riis covered the poor conditions caused by poverty and crowded apartments in this book.
What is How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis, author of The Other Half, explored how poor people in this city lived.
What is New York?
Nick Carraway, the narrator of Great Gatsby, rents a home on this less fashionable location on New York's Long Island.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is West Egg (East Egg is the more rich island where Gatsby and the Buchanans live)
This is the dream that is deferred in Langston Hughes's poems. There's a striped object in this classroom that provides a hint.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the American Dream?
Sandra always made sure to OBLIGE her mother by taking off her shoes before going into the house.
What is True?
What is the name of the male main character in The Crucible who is hanged at the end of the play?
What is John Proctor?
The Apache led by the Native American leader in question 1 led raids against this country.
What is Mexico?
Jay Gatsby spent his time and energy after World War I by doing this to make money to impress this certain lady
What is bootlegging and what is to impress Daisy Buchanan?
"If we must die, O let us nobly die," is a line from this famous poem that supports the idea that black people in the US had to fight not just for their rights, but their dignity as well.
What is "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay.
After 1:50, the crowds at Peabody High slowly abate until the halls are empty.
What is True.
Ture or False: My Dungeon Shook by James Baldwin is written as a letter to to his nephew.
What is True
Upton Sinclair wrote this book about the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry in Chicago.
What is The Jungle?
Wilson, the garage owner, shoots Gatsby because of this misunderstanding
What is he thinks Gatsby ran over and killed Myrtle Wilson
James Baldwin's "If Beale St Could Talk" tell the story of Fonny and Tish; it starts with Tish telling Fonny this while he is in jail after being set up.
What is Tish is pregnant?
The best way to approach life is with equanimity and patience, never letting anything bother you too much.
What is True, at least as far as accurately using the word goes.
This is the name of the man that Emily fell in love with in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Homer.
What is Repetition?
"These are real," is what Owl Eyes says at Gatsby's party in reference to what objects?
What are books?
After killing a Vietnamese soldier in the war, Tim O'Brien still sees this soldier in his off moments doing this to him? Hint: it involves eye contact.
What is giving him a smile?