Literature
Analysis
Random
Summaries
Poetry
High School
100
This teacher is known for leading the yearbook class, coaching cross country, and playing badminton after school.
Who is Teacher Leah?
100
This Language Arts teacher has two stuffed Garfield's and a couple of enormous pencils in their room.
Who is Mr. Lancaster
100
It is very groovy to hang near the tie dye and posters of musicians in this Language Arts teacher's room.
Who is Mr. Walker?
100
This Language Arts teacher will teach you everything you need to know about hufflepuffs and the wizarding world of Hogwarts.
Who is Ms. Luck?
100
This poet compared a rose to people who are growing up in a bad environment.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
100
This activity is something that all of the language arts teachers you have ever had hope you continue to do for the rest of your lives!
What is "read books?"
200
Research has found that students who do this silent activity for 20 to 30 minutes will show growth on reading tests.
What is reading workshop?
200
This is the feeling of nervousness or unease that readers get when they read a scary story and they don't know what will happen next.
What is suspense?
200
These three elements are necessary to write a convincing analysis paragraph. They can be remembered with the acronym "P.E.E."
What is Point, Evidence, and Explanation?
200
The message or lesson that an author conveys with a story?
What is a theme?
200
This word with a "z" in it means almost the same thing as "paragraph," but it is used to describe a group of lines separated with a space in poetry.
What is a "stanza"?
200
This is the number of minutes students at RHS have to walk from one class to the next.
What is eight minutes?
300
This body part is in the name of a spooky short story we read together as a class.
What is "The Tell Tale Heart?"
300
Authors are doing this when the show or tell about the traits of the characters in their stories.
What is characterization?
300
You know you are reading this type of perspective when the author uses "I," "me," "my" as the voice for the narrator of the story.
What is first person perspective or first person point of view?
300
A good summary of something you read includes each of these three things.
What is the title, author, and main points?
300
The name of poem that begins....
"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?"
What is "Harlem"?
300
This is the name given to the Raiders' mascot.
Who is Roderigo?
400
This short story shows what happens to the foolish who are not careful what they wish for.
What is The Monkey's Paw?
400
This strategy is used by authors to make readers see, hear, touch, taste, or smell something as you read their story.
What is imagery OR sensory language?
400
The book titled, "The Giver," takes place in this type of imperfect society.
What is a dystopia?
400
This sentence summarizes the story, "The Monkey's Paw."
(Extended time allowed for research of the correct answer)
What is: "'The Monkey's Paw,' written by W.W. Jacobs, is about a family that suffers from a cursed monkey paw."?
400
This college-educated poet of the 1920's inspired generations of African Americans including civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
In addition to core classes (math / language arts / social studies), students are allowed to take these career-earning classes while in high school.
What are CTE courses?
Alternate answers: college courses, or names of programs.
500
The person in this picture:
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
500
"She has a heart of gold" is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
500
During this ceremony all of the twelve year olds in "The Giver" learn what their jobs will be for the rest of their lives.
What is "The Ceremony of the Twelve?"
500
This perfect type of society has solved all of the problems of our modern world, while keeping things we love like free will and self expression.
What is utopia?
500
Edgar Allen Poe uses this type of rhyme in Annabelle Lee:
"Can ever dissever my soul from the soul"
What is an internal rhyme, or assonance?
500
This required freshmen course will help new students learn the basics of how high school works.
What is Access?
600
On a plot map, this part of the story introduces the characters, setting, and main conflict.
What is the exposition?
600
This villain in "The Tell Tale Heart" murders an old man because of his annoying blue eye.
*Hint: who is telling the story?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe's "narrator?"
600
This database that Mrs. Snyder showed us in the library is the most reliable place to gather information during research.
What is OSLIS database?
600
This word - which normally means 'to set free' - has an alternate meaning in the book "The Giver."
Points for the word, as well as the meaning in the book.
What is "release," which means death, in The Giver?
600
This poem is about some kids who skip school to play pool.
What is "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks?
600
Students who graduate from Reynolds High School (or any high school in Oregon) need this many credits, and also need to earn at least this grade in each class.
*Bonus given for the average grade needed to attend college after high school
What is 24 credits and a "D"?
Portland State University: 3.35 average GPA
Oregon State University: 3.65 average GPA
University of Oregon: 3.73 average GPA