Plot & Narrative
The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., First Person or Third Person).
What is point of view?
This is the specific, high-pitched noise a student makes when they realize they just accidentally liked a post from 84 weeks ago while "researching" a crush.
What is a Gasp (or "The Sound of Fear")?
Mesopotamia means the "land between" these two specific rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This is the basic building block of all living things.
What is a cell?
Evaluate 12 + 4 x 2
What is 20?
he part of the story where the background information, characters, and setting are introduced.
What is the exposition? (or Introduction)
This is the specific "cough" used in front of parents to prove you are definitely too ill for the Math test, but will be fine for gaming by 3:30 PM.
What is the Fake/Performative Cough?
To control the water supply, Sumerians built these systems of canals and dams.
What is Irrigation?
A group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function.
What is tissue?
According to the Order of Operations, this is the first thing you should simplify.
What are Parentheses?
The turning point or the most intense moment of a story.
What is the climax?
This is the panic-inducing moment when you’re "sick" at home and hear the distinct chime of a FaceTime call from your best friend who is currently in the middle of Social Studies.
What is a Pocket Dial (or a "Snitch Call")?
These were small, independent settlements with their own laws and government.
What are City-States?
This body system is responsible for transporting nutrients, oxygen, and waste products throughout an organism.
What is the circulatory system?
Evaluate 20 / 22 + 3.
What is 8?
The central message, lesson, or "moral of the story."
What is theme?
This footwear choice is a bold move for PE class, usually resulting in the student sliding across the gym floor like they’re on ice.
What are Crocs (in 2-wheel drive/relaxed mode) or Slides?
This geographic problem in the Zagros Mountains forced people to move to the plains.
What is a Food Shortage?
This level of organization is formed when multiple types of tissues work together to perform complex functions. Example: the heart or lungs.
What is an organ?
Evaluate 5 x (3 + 2)2.
What is 125?
A struggle between two opposing forces, which can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
The "Hoodie Rule" usually states that while you can wear the sweatshirt, you cannot do this with the hood while inside the building.
What is Put it over your head?
These earthen walls were built along the riverbanks to prevent flooding.
What are Levees?
This process describes how an organism maintains a stable internal environment despite changes in the outside world.
What is homeostasis?
Place parentheses in 10 + 2 x 3 - 1 to make the value equal 35.
What is (10 + 2) x 3 - 1?