Ancient World 1
In a Bible story, this man was asked to sacrifice his son to honor God.
Who is Abraham?
This country is where Sekhmet slew many innocent and guilty humans.
What is Egypt?
A good narrative essay has a structure that looks like this.
What is a rollercoaster?
This skill involves adding detail at the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma.
What is a lead-in?
This ancient Greek philosopher was born in Athens and spent his time walking around asking people questions.
Who is Socrates?
Spartacus was a famous _______ who led a revolt against wealthy Romans.
What is a gladiator?
What is a slave?
This number is the typical number of paragraphs in essays.
What is five?
This skill involves adding detail at the end of a sentence, sometimes beginning with a comma.
What is an add-on?
This famous general would go on to become Emperor of France. He invaded Egypt in 1798.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This famous Roman general conquered Gaul and would go on to end the Roman Republic.
Who is Julius Caesar?
What is the climax?
This skill involves adding detail in the middle of a sentence surrounded on either side by parenthetical commas.
What is an add-in?
This god is the King of the Egyptian gods, creator of humanity, and the first pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Ra?
This ancient artifact was discovered by accident several hundred years ago in Egypt. It was instrumental in assisting archaeologists decode the language of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is the name for essays that are stories.
What is a narrative essay?
The difference between these two sentences is the use of a(n) ______ verb in the second.
Sean slowly went to the Tokyu grocery store.
Sean slowly strolled to the Tokyu grocery store.
What is an active or descriptive verb?
This ancient Roman hero was the son of Jupiter.
Who is Hercules?
The Iliad is an ancient tale of a war between the Greeks and these people. The Greeks famously used a wooden horse to defeat them.
Who are the Trojans?
So far, we have practiced these three types of essays.
What are narrative, persuasive, category, one-paragraph, and five-paragraph essays?
"Sean hopped like a frog," is an example of this literary technique.
What is a simile?