About Your Teachers
The Odyssey
Vinyl Moon
Grammar
Narrative Writing
100

Ms. Wolff's favorite animal

What are cats?
100

The length of time it took Odysseus to get home after the war was over

10 years

100
The city where the novel takes place

What is Brooklyn?

100

Where you take a pause when you're reading a sentence out loud.

What is a comma?

100
True or False: a time period can be considered part of the setting.

True!

200

The school that Ms. E is currently attending

What is Lewis and Clark College?

200

The name of Odysseus's son

Who is Telemachus?
200

The platform where Angel makes her playlists

What is Soundcloud?

200

The punctuation mark that should be used to mark the end of an idea/thought.

What is a period?

200

My name translates to "little vine" and I am described as a "moment in time."

What is a vignette?

300

The name of Ms. E's baby

Who is Alphonso?

300

The name that Odysseus told the Cyclops was his name

Nobody

300

DJ Jiggy Stacks' true identity

Who is Sterling?

300

The letter that should (almost) always follows a q.

What is u?

300

When you connect the events of the story to something happening in the real world.

What is a text-to-world connection?

400

The place Ms. Wolff is traveling to this summer

What is Japan?

400

The name of at least one person that Odysseus had an affair with while he was away

Calypso, Circe, Nausicaa 

400

At least two authors that Angel mentions reading during Vinyl Moon

Who is Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Sandra Cicneros, Zora Neale Hurston..?

400

Three things that should ALWAYS be capitalized.

The first word of every sentence, names, and "I."

400

What the letters of STEAL stand for.

Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, Looks

500

The number of years that Ms. Wolff has been teaching

16

500

Odysseus's deceased crew mate that he encounters in the underworld (and who asks him to cremate his body, bury him with his armor, and mark his grave with the oar of his ship).

Who is Elpenor? 

500

The names of Angel's siblings

Amir, Ayanna, Ashanta, and Asha.

500

A sentence is considered grammatically complete if it contains both of these.

What is a subject and a verb?

500

The definition of "en media res."

Hint: Remember The Odyssey

Translates to “In the middle of things”. It's when a story starts in the middle of the action.

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