The Palace Thief
This character teaches at St. Benedict's, tries to influence Sedgewick Bell, and loves history.
Who is Mr. Hundert?
These are the paragraphs of poetry.
What is a stanza?
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was sent to Birmingham Jail for this offense.
What is peaceful protest?
In his children's book "Islandborn," Junot Diaz represents this man as a bat-like monster.
Who is Trujillo?
Identify the SBAC sentence type:
Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was killed in a tavern brawl at the age of 29.
What is 1?
What "cardinal rule of teaching" does Mr. Hundert break and why?
He gives Sedgewick a grade he doesn't deserve to win him a place in the Mr. Julius Caesar competition.
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is this type of poem, which romanticizes nature, shepherds, and country life.
What is a pastoral?
MLK wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in response to this group, who called his activism "untimely and unwise."
Who are the eight white clergymen?
What is Haiti?
Identify the SBAC Sentence Type:
Prince Hamlet appeared crazy, but there was a method to his madness.
What is 2b?
This poem is featured both in Mr. Hundert's classroom and the hit show Breaking Bad.
What is Ozymandias?
Nymphs are figures from the mythology of this ancient society.
What is ancient Greece?
While revered after his death, this man received only a 32% positive approval rating when Gallup polled the public in 1966.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This word was used to distinguish between Haitians and Dominicans during a 1937 massacre orchestrated by Trujillo.
What is "parsley" or "perejil"?
Identify the sentence type:
Coping with his experiences in Dresden, Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five.
What is 4b?
This character won both Mr. Julius Caesar competitions.
Who is Deepak Mehta?
William Carlos Williams wrote "Raleigh Was Right" in response to this poem.
What is "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"?
This poet wrote about the Civil Rights Movement in poems like "I, Too" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Who was Langston Hughes?
This was the code name of the Mirabal sisters, about whom Julia Alvarez wrote her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies.
Who are Las Mariposas?
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Surviving Siberian prison arguably made Fyodor Dostoevsky a better writer.
What is 6?
Sedgewick's ignorance of this historical figure lost him the Mr. Julius Caesar competition.
Who was Shutruk-Nahunte?
This poet, who wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," was killed at the age of 29 in a tavern brawl.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the president of this organization, which combined Christian faith with civil rights activism.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Trujillo's killers designed the Mirabal sisters' murders to look like this.
What is a car accident?
The author who wrote The Catcher in the Rye was known as a recluse.
What is 3b?