Grammar
This punctuation mark indicates a contraction or a possessive noun.
What is an apostrophe?
What causes Rainsford to fall overboard?
He dropped his pipe into the sea.
Why did you have no school on November 11th?
What is Veterans' Day?
What is plagiarism?
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
In what U.S. city did Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Washington D.C.
What does FANBOYS stand for?
Coordinating Conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
The name of the island Rainsford gets stranded on.
What is Ship-Trap Island?
What day is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, this year?
On December 21st.
What is paraphrasing?
Taking another's words and rephrasing them as your own.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." What document makes this promise?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Which sentence is written correctly?
a. The tornado barreling towards us will effect our picnic plans.
b. Father could not explain the strange affect the music had on him.
c. Hopefully, the essay grade will not affect my average too badly.
c. Hopefully, the essay grade will not affect my average too badly.
Why does Brother nickname his little brother Doodle?
When he crawls backward, he looks like a Doodle bug.
Kiss!
Of the following sources, which one is considered acceptable for research on our project?
a. Wikipedia
b. Personal blog
c. Advertisement
d. Museum
d. Museum
What famous poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
Which sentence has a comma mistake? Explain how you would fix it.
a. Although we asked Susan if she wanted to come, we later learned she had felt left out.
b. Rick Grimes, the town's new sheriff has a young son named Carl.
c. "I love the movie Frozen; however, my sister insisted that we watch Moana instead.
b. Rick Grimes, the town's new sheriff, has a young son named Carl.
What are George and Lennie's last names?
Milton and Small
This earworm song simply started off as an innocent sing-along video on the Pingfong YouTube channel, which now has more than whopping 3.3 BILLION views.
What is the Baby Shark Dance?
Which of the following tabs would most likely give us information regarding a source?
a. Contact
b. Subscribe
c. About
d. Shop
c. About
This was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Which sentence does not contain any errors?
a. Dolores favorite class is english but Jacks' favorite class is math.
b. I too like math and when I grow up I want to be a mathematician.
c. Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, and there's a line of Nike sneakers named after him.
c. Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, and there's a line of Nike sneakers named after him.
Which character in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ends the novel by asking "what's eating those guys?"
Carlson
Cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, who created a hit animation series, died on Nov. 26 of Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as ALS. He was 57. What was the name of that series also made into a Broadway play?
What is SpongeBob SquarePants?
This refers to the disproportionate weight in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Studies say that up to 50% of any new article shows some form of it. In journalism, it is referred to as media ______________.
What is bias?
This policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants.
What is nativism?