Unit 1: Everybody Loves a Mystery
This is the essential question from Unit One: Everybody Loves a Mystery?
What is: What Attracts Us to the Mysterious?
This is the number of paragraphs in a standard essay.
What is five paragraphs?
This NFL team is named after one of Poe's literary works.
What are the Baltimore Ravens?
There are two forms of figurative language that compare. Name both of them.
What is a simile? What is a metaphor?
This is the name of Ms. McAllen's favorite MLB team.
What is the Los Angeles Dodgers?
This is the name of the short story we read as a class by Edgar Allan Poe.
What is The Tell Tale Heart?
The Raven counts for Honors as well
True or False: Using peer feedback is not a great way to revise your writing.
What is False?
This was Edgar Allan Poe's age when he died mysteriously.
What is 40-years-old?
This is a figure of speech that gives human qualities or emotions to non-human entities or objects.
What is personification?
This is Ms. McAllen's favorite movie.
What is Star Wars: Episode Three?
This is the name of the man who survived a tamping iron being shot through his skull.
Who is Phineas Gage?
List the three parts of an introduction paragraph.
What are a hook, background information, and a thesis statement?
This literary genre was invented by Edgar Allan Poe.
What is detective fiction?
This is an expression unique to a culture that doesn't literally mean what it says. The definition of the words is different than its actual meaning.
What is an idiom?
Ms. McAllen has five people in her family besides her. Name the five people.
Who are Kip, Sam, Sam, Maryann, and Tim?
This is how many nights the narrator watches the old man before committing the murder in Poe's, The Tell Tale Heart.
What is seven nights?
This is the number of times your thesis statement is written in your essay.
What is two times?
(Intro + Conclusion)
Edgar Allan Poe is named after a character in this Shakespeare play.
What is King Lear?
This is an example of what type of figurative language: "A new anxiety seized me- The sound would be heard by a neighbor!"
What is personification?
This is the name of Ms. McAllen's favorite YA novel.
What is Gone by Michael Grant?
This is how many years Phineas Gage survived after his gruesome accident.
What is 11 years?
Almost 12 years.
True or False: These are the steps of the writing process.
What is true?
This is the name of Edgar Allan Poe's nemesis. Hint: He wrote Poe's obituary.
Who is Rufus Griswold?
This is an example of what type of figurative language: "I heard all things in heaven and earth. I heard many things in hell."
What is a hyperbole?
Ms. McAllen has two pet rabbits. These are their names.
Who are Soul and Neil?