Essay Writing
Parts of a Story
Random
Critical Lenses
Texts from Q3
100

The different types of paragraphs in an essay

What are the introduction, body paragraph(s), and conclusion?

100

The two types of characters

What are the protagonist and the antagonist?

100

The names of Mrs. Cohn Matthews's dogs

What are Toska and Snoopy?

100
The two critical lenses we discussed this semester

What is the reader response lens and the social class lens? 

100

Name three of the texts we read this quarter. 

What is "Persepolis", "I am offering", "Grandma's Sink", and Book Club? 

200
The two parts of a thesis statement

What are the claim and reason?

200
The term for conversation in a text

What is dialogue? 

200

The number of buildings at WiHi

What is nine (A, B, C, D, E, Media, Cafe, Auditorium, Main Office)?

200

Define the two lenses we discussed this semester

What is...

Reader Response Lens examines the reader's expectations of the text whereas the Social Class Lens examines the social classes and systems of power in the text. 

200

Pick a text from this quarter and provide two themes of that text. 

What is...

Persepolis - War, Adversity, Family, Death

Grandma's Sink - Culture, Xenophobia, Discrimination, Love, Family, Religion

I am Offering - Love, Communication, Guidance, Support, Relationships

Book Club - Depends on the book!

300

The parts of an introduction

What are the hook, background info, and thesis?

300

The four types of conflict we discussed this quarter

What are character vs. self, character vs. character, character vs. society, and character vs. nature?

300

The WiHi PBIS motto

What is respect, responsibility, and integrity?

300

The three classes in the social class lens

What are the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, and the aristocracy? 

300

The main character of "Persepolis"

Who is Marji?

400

The parts of a body paragraph

What are the topic sentence, background information, quotes & citation, and analysis/explanation?

400

The number of parts in the plot diagram

What is five? 

400

The number of days we have left of school

What is 47 including day? 

400

The three expectation responses in Reader's Response lens

What are fulfilled, denied, and redirected? 

400

The main character of "Grandma's Sink"

Who is the granddaughter? 

500

The parts of the conclusion

What are restating your thesis, summarizing your reasons, and answering the "so what"?

500

The parts of the plot diagram

What are the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

500

The general size of the town where Mrs. Cohn Matthews grew up (give a roundabout number)

What is 800-1000?

500

The purpose of learning different lenses

What is to examine different perspectives or "lenses" of a text. 

500

The main character of "I am offering"

Who is the narrator?

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