GUMS
What GUMS stands for.
What is Grammar, Usage, Mechanics and Spelling?
When should you cite your sources?
Always
A hidden message the author shares implicitly
What is theme?
The continent we live on...
What is North America
The Three Branches of Government on both federal and state level
What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Punctuation marks (.,?!) are this part of GUMS.
What is Mechanics?
What is imagery, figurative language, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor...
When a story is told from the viewpoint of "I".
What is First Person?
The names of three Latin American countries.
Honduras
Mexico
Belize
Ecuador
(answers will vary)
The author of "I have a dream" speech that spoke for US civil rights.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(MLK)
The optional comma that can be added at the end of a list.
What is an Oxford Comma?
A type of nonfiction writing
What is informational, expository, biography, autobiography?
The hero or heroine of a story.
What is the protagonist?
The lines that measure north & south of the equator and east & west of the prime meridian
What are latitude and longitude lines?
The year that White women in all of USA got the right to vote (suffrage).
What is 1920? (19th Amendment) WY was the first state in 1869
- 1869: The 15th Amendment is ratified-Black men suffrage
- 1890: The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
- 1920: The 19th Amendment
- 1965: The Voting Rights Act is passed, protecting the voting rights of racial minorities, including Black women.
The three different ways to spell and use the word that can mean a place (teacher will say the word out loud).
What is the dog is over there.
Their dog is so cute!
They're deciding if they should adopt a second dog.
The components of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence, detail sentences, and a conclusion.
The type of fiction that teaches about history.
What is historical fiction?
The name of CNN10's host.
Who is Coy Wire?
Another name for the 7 Years' War.
What is the French and Indian War?
The punctuation mark that can be used instead of saying "furthermore". This punctuation mark is followed with a lower case letter.
What is a semicolon? ;
The focus of an essay or informational writing.
What is a thesis/ main idea/ focus statement?
The names of three authors that you've either met and/or read books by them.
Who is Kekla Magoon, Katherine Patterson, William Alexander, and Tod Olson?
(answers will vary)
The two continents that are referred to by different names world-wide.
What is Eurasia (Europe and Asia) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand & New Caledonia (Zealandia), Papua New Guinea, and the smaller islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia)?
Specific names of three representatives of VT, on either the federal or state level.
Who are... Anne Watson, Ann Cummings, Andrew Perchlik,
Becca Balint, Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch