Unit 1
How many chapters does The Outsiders novel have?
Twelve.
Name me two types of poetry forms.
Free verse/form
sonnet
acrostic
limerick
haiku
ballads
villanelles
What film did we watch at the end of the unit?
Holes
What were our two themes studied in this unit?
Identity and Belonging
What is Miss Little's biggest grammar pet peeve?
Bonus 100 points if you can give an example.
Comma Splices
What year was The Outsiders published?
1967
Name all the main poems studied in Unit 2.
Heart to Heart
Valentine
Gifts
Sonnet 18
What film did we watch at the beginning of the unit?
Invictus
Name two short films we watched that were NOT ones for the assessment.
For the Birds
The Lost Thing
What do you call a word that is two words that are combined to form a single word?
Bonus 100 points if you can give me an example.
A portmanteau word.
brunch
smog
motel
Name the three characters you could do your 9.1 narrative task on.
Bonus 100 points if you get all their last names right too.
Johnny Cade
Cherry Valance
Darrel Curtis
What is a quatrain?
A stanza with four lines with alternating rhyming lines (e.g. ABAB).
Name at least three of the five 'notable teens' speeches that we looked at the beginning of this unit.
Greta Thunberg
Malala Yousafzai
Jack Andraka
Emma Gonzalez
Amika George
Name six types of camera shots.
Closeup
Mid Shot
Long Shot
Wide Shot
POV shot
Over the Shoulder shot
What is one of Miss Little's book recommendations in our class OneNote BookShare tab?
"That was Then, This is Now" by S.E. Hinton
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
"The Art of Taxidemy" by Sharon Kernot
"The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo
Shakespeare Sonnets
What does BARDS stand for?
Background
Action
Reflection
Dialogue
Setting
The word 'sonnet' comes from the Italian sonetto. What does it translate to?
"a little sound or song."
When discussing tone in speeches, we watched a TED-ED video about procrastination. What were the three characters that appeared inside the mind of the procrastinator?
Rational Decision Maker
Instant Gratification Monkey
Panic Monster
What does metteur en scène mean?
The director of a play or film —literally, "one who puts on the stage".
What is the definition of this word?
Widdershins
(adverb) something is moving in a counterclockwise direction. Moving widdershins is considered unlucky.
Scottish-derived term
Who is the poet of the following poem that Ponyboy recites in the novel?
'Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.'
Robert Frost
What poem did Miss Little share in the "Share a Poem" HW task?
Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
What percentage of the class chose a female advocate?
Roughly 60%.
Guess the film based on this short summary:
Don't be fooled by the pink.
Mean Girls
Miss Little has two plushies on her desk in the staff room. Can you guess what either of them are?
If you ask for a hint, the question loses 100 points.
A ghost called Boo Radley.
A fish called Emo Nemo.