Writing Process
Essay Types
Famous Works Inspired by Other Famous Works
Grammar
"Normal" Pop Culture - For Funsies!
100
Name the first step of the writing process when you generate ideas and decide your topic and purpose.
What is brainstorming or pre-writing?
100
Which essay type asks you to tell a story from your own experience?
What is a narrative essay?
100
Inspired work: The Lion King
What is Hamlet?
100
Which punctuation mark ends a declarative sentence?
What is an exclamation point?
100
Name the streaming platform that released the series Stranger Things.
What is Netflix?
200
Which stage focuses on improving sentence flow, organization, and clarity by moving, adding, or deleting whole paragraphs?
What is proofreading and/or editing?
200
What type of essay requires you to take a clear position and support it with reasons and evidence?
What is an argumentative essay?
200
Inspired work: West Side Story
What is Romeo and Juliet?
200
What is the grammar error in this sentence "Each student are responsible for doing the homework."
What is "are"?
200
Which musician released the album Lemonade and often appears in high-school conversations about art and social commentary?
Who is Beyonce?
300
What is the difference between proofreading and editing?
Proofreading is fixing grammatical errors or spelling errors. Editing is actually revising or changing your writing.
300
What is a major difference between an informative essay and a persuasive essay?
For the informative essay, you're just giving information. For the persuasive essay, you're trying to convince someone of something.
300
Inspired Work: Clueless
What is Emma?
300
What is the dangling modifier in this sentence: "Running down the hall, the bell startled the students."
What is "running down the hall"?
300
Which of the following Marvel movies would be a good focus text for a conversation on representation and cultural impact? A: Black Panther, B: Guardians of the Galaxy, or C: Iron Man?
What is Black Panther?
400
Put these writing-process steps in order: Drafting, Outlining, Prewriting, and Revising.
What is pre-writing, outlining, drafting, and revising?
400
What is an example of a basic thesis statement for a compare and contrast essay?
What is:
_________ and ________ are both similar and different because ________.
[I'll take anything like this.]
400
Inspired work: 10 Things I Hate About You
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
400
Should there be a semi-colon or a comma after "movies" in the following sentence:
"Joel wants to go to the movies and I want to go to the mall."
What is a comma?
400
This animal out of Seattle is creating a lot of great memes at the moment, and he's definitely a mood.
What is Jimothy the racoon?
500
Name one tool that is Ms. Sevier-approved when it comes to proofreading and editing.
What is any of the following:
Ms. Sevier, another teacher you trust or another trusted adult, or a (human) tutor.
500
What are the three parts necessary for the introduction paragraph of any essay?
What are hook, contextual information, and the thesis statement?
500
Inspired work: Ex Machina.
What is Frankenstein?
500
You want to combine the following two sentences. Which punctuation mark would do that?
"I love my Snoopy pajamas."
"My Hello Kitty ones are also comfy."
What is a semi-colon?
500
What is Bruno Mars' real name?
What is Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez?
[I will accept first name.]