Vocab
Figurative Language
Essays
Technology
Grab Bag
100

very excited and silly

Giddiness

100

The classroom was a zoo.

Metaphor

100

The first sentence of an essay.

What is a hook?

100

This company makes the Windows operating system

What is Windows?

100

This iconic Cleveland museum celebrates the history of rock and roll music

What is the rock n roll hall of fame?

200

Looking away from something disgusting

Squeamish

200

The old house groaned under the weight of the snow.

Personification

200

The location of the thesis statement.

What is at the end of the first paragraph?

200

The first version of this smartphone was released in 2007

What is the iphone?

200

The first professional baseball team, the Reds, originated in this Ohio city.

What is Cincinnati? 

300

The unpleasant surprise left someone feeling:

flustered

300

Opportunity knocked at his door.

Personification

300

The space before each paragraph starts.

What are indentations?

300

This company introduced Chromebooks.

What is google?

300

This legendary astronaut, the first man on the Moon, hailed from Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Who is Neil Armstrong? (Gnorts, Mr. Alien)

400

The amazing fireworks left me feeling:

dazzled

400

I've told you a million times.

Hyperbole

400

These are included in a conclusion paragraph

What are a restated hook and thesis?

400

This console popularized motion controls in the mid-2000s

What is the Wii?

400

Instead of a pen, Sumerians used a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped marks on wet clay tablets with this writing system.

What is Cuneiform?

500

After worrying about making the team, the coach called with good news. This left you feeling:

relieved

500

He was afraid of the living dead.

Oxymoron

500

The first word of each body paragraph.

What are transition words?

500

One gigabyte equals how many megabytes?

1000 Megabytes = 1 gigabyte

500

According to an ancient Mesopotamian epic poem, this man was the powerful, 2/3 god and 1/3 human king of the city-state of Uruk who befriended the wild man Enkidu and searched for immortality

Who is Gilgamesh