Required Reading
Sports Movies
A Galaxy Far Away
Uconn Sciences
Mystery Jared Category
200

8th Grade: Elie Weisel recounts his experiences with the horrors of the Holocaust in this required book.

Night

200

After the movie he played 2 innings, but still no at bats.

Archibald "Moonlight" Graham 

200

This mining colony in the Bespin system was won by Lando Calrissian in a game of sabacc, and was where Luke learned Darth Vader was his father.

Cloud City

200

This element is capable of forming four bonds. It is a critical component in everything from DNA to diamonds

Carbon

200


Turtwig

400

9th Grade: This Shakespeare play contains the famous line "et tu Brute".

Julius Caesar 

400

He was the Mud Dogs' star player, and their Waterboy.

Bobby Boucher

400

He was Chancellor of the Republic, until Queen Padmé Amidala called for a vote of no confidence.

Chancellor Finis Valorum

400

C6H12O6 is the sugar produced by photosynthesis, better known by this common name.

Glucose

400

In Ready Player One, it's the virtual reality that life revolves around.

OASIS

600

8th Grade: One of my favorite required books, the Outsiders follows Ponyboy, a member of this fictional gang.

The Greasers

600

This baseball team was specifically designed to lose but ended up winning the World Series in Major League.

The Cleveland Indians 

600

It's the planet that the Death Star plans were stored on, and from where they were beamed to the rebel fleet.

Scarif

600

It's a typically sterile mix between two closely related species, like a mule.

Hybrid

600


The Zerg

800

12th Grade: The title of this work, written by Shakespeare is considered cursed, so performers call it "The Scottish Play".

Macbeth

800

This movie is based on the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.

Cool Runnings

800

This 'letter' starfighter was originally created to fight in the Clone Wars, but the Rebel Alliance continued to use it in battles such as Scarif, Yavin, and Endor.

Y-Wing

800

It's a version of an element with a different number of neutrons, like carbon-14 or uranium-235.

Isotope

800

In the second episode of Corner Gas, Lacy stirs up a controversy by charging money for this.

Coffee

1000

11th Grade: It's not The Boat Rocker, but this book in which follows a teen named Holden Caulfield.

The Catcher in the Rye

1000

Sylvester Stallone plays this boxer, whose training montage ended on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

Rocky Balboa

1000

Hego Damask was the real name of this wise Sith lord who Darth Sidious called master.

Darth Plagueis the wise

1000

This group contains Eukaryotes that don't fall into plants, animals, or fungi. Many are single cellular

Protist

1000

In Warhammer 40k, the T'au society is organized into these, like India.

Castes

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