Grammar Grab Bag
This part of speech describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, and often (but not always) ends in '-ly.'
adverb
This punctuation is used to set off a direct quotation.
quotation marks
This is the name of the author and narrator of 'Red Scarf Girl.'
This African American playwright wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun.'
Loraine Hansberry
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
Jupiter
Identify the subject in this sentence: 'After the long bus ride, the exhausted students collapsed onto their desks.'
'the exhausted students' (or 'students')
Add the correct punctuation: 'My favorite subjects are English math and science.'
My favorite subjects are English, math, and science
'Red Scarf Girl' is set during this ten-year political movement in China that began in 1966.
Cultural Revolution
he Younger family is waiting for this specific item that will change their lives.
the (insurance) check / the $10,000 check
Baltimore, Maryland sits on this body of water, the largest estuary in the United States.
Chesapeake Bay
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
compound sentence
This punctuation mark can join two closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.
semicolon
This Communist leader launched the Cultural Revolution and is referenced throughout the memoir.
Chairman Mao
This Younger family member dreams of becoming a doctor.
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies free from British rule.
The Declaration of Independence
Correct this sentence: 'Me and my brother went to the store.'
My brother and I went to the store.
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word: 'She ran QUICKLY down the hall.'
adverb
Ji-li is told her family belongs to one of these 'bad' social categories because of her grandfather's past as a landlord.
the 'Five Black Categories' (or 'black class' / a landlord family)
The play's title comes from a poem by this Harlem Renaissance poet, originally titled 'Harlem' (or 'A Dream Deferred')
In Greek mythology, this hero had to complete twelve labors as punishment.
Hercules
Name all seven coordinating conjunctions (the FANBOYS).
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
Explain the difference between 'its' and 'it's' and use each correctly in a sentence.
'its' shows possession (The dog wagged its tail) and 'it's' is a contraction for 'it is' or 'it has' (It's raining)
At the end of the memoir, Ji-li refuses to do this in order to protect her father, even though it would have improved her own future.
denounce (or testify against / break ties with) her father
This man from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association tries to pay the Youngers NOT to move into the white neighborhood.
Karl Lindner
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through 11 countries in Africa.
the Nile river