Vocabulary
An object, person, or place that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
_____ (Its/It's) warm outside.
What is "it's"?
Character who killed Bob in The Outsiders.
Who is Johnny?
A policy or system of discrimination of segregation.
What is apartheid?
The name of the main character in the novel Tangerine.
Who is Paul Fisher?
Aspects of a text designed to help you locate, organize, and understand information.
What are text features?
________ (Your/You're) going to do well on your exam!
What is "you're"?
Who are the Greasers and Socs?
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for this amount of time.
What is 27 years?
The last sentence of your introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
Statement that can be argued.
What is a claim?
Punctuation mark that connects two related independent clauses in a sentence.
What is a semicolon?
Ponyboy's brothers in The Outsiders.
Who are Dally and Sodapop?
The country Nelson Mandela became the president of.
What is South Africa?
Event that caused Paul to start attending Tangerine Middle School in Tangerine.
What is a sinkhole?
Words that appeal to the senses.
What are sensory details?
Acronym for coordinating conjunctions that are used to connect independent clauses. These are always paired with a comma.
What are FANBOYS?
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.
What is "stay gold, Ponyboy"?
Name of the South Africa rugby team.
Who are the Springboks?
Citation format name that we use to cite our sources in ELA.
What is MLA?
The language a writer or speaker uses to persuade an audience.
What is rhetoric?
I hope ______ (your/you're) enjoying this game! _____ (There/Their/They're) _____ (our/are) a variety of questions that your team can answer to earn points.
What is "you're," "there," "are"?
Location of the plot of The Outsiders.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Type of nation Nelson Mandela wanted to create in South Africa.
What is a rainbow nation, or a nation of unity?
Name of the tangerines Louis grows that Paul and his teammates did a project on.
What is golden dawn tangerine?