2021 Milestones
Defining Terms
What's its Name?
The Writing Process
2021 TikTok Trends
Credible or Not
100

The U.S. state in which widespread power outages and loss of heat, electricity and water affected millions of people. 

What is Texas?

100

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another. 

What is bias?

100

Texts that include picture books, text books, graphic novels, comics, and posters, where meaning is conveyed. 

What is multimodal? 

100

A final version of something usually after a lot of editing and rewriting. 

What is final draft?

100

A 2009 dance that resembles backward skipping.

What is the "Jerk"?

100

Materials published within last 10 years. 

What is credible? 

200

The nation’s first female, Black and South Asian vice president.

Who is Kamala Harris?

200

The quality of being trusted and believed in.


What is credibility?

200

Audio, visual or multimodal texts produced through digital or electronic technology which may be interactive and include animations and/or hyperlinks.

What is a "Digital Text"?

200

To write or draw a version of something that usually needs more work. 

What is drafting?

200

A dish loved by the little lad. 

What is berries and cream?

200

Gale in Context: High School

What is credible? 

300

Held in Tokyo, Japan, though no spectators were allowed after Japan declared a new state of emergency due to COVID-19.

What is "The Olympics"?

300

The quality or state of being correct or precise.

What is accuracy or accurate?

300

The author's reason or intent for writing. 

What is author's purpose?

300

To re-examine and make alterations to.


What is Revising?

300

The name of the "Bones Day" pug.

Who is Noodle?

300

Websites ending in .com.

What is not credible? 

400

The country in which the president fully withdrew U.S. troops. 

What is Afghanistan?

400

The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.


What is influence?

400

An author's "big idea" of the text or a part of the text.

What is the author's message? 

400

To prepare for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.

What is editing?

400

A dish Adam Driver enjoys. 

What is "good soup"?

400

Academic databases. 

What is credible?

500

Husband to Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-serving royal consort in British history, died in April of 2021 at the age of 99.

Who is Prince Philip?

500

The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting.

What is audience?

500

A person or thing that precipitates an event.

What is a Catalyst?

500
The formulation and organization of ideas before writing.



What is Prewriting? 

500

The #1 hit Backyardigans song. 

What is "Castaways"?

500

Ioannidou, Elena, et al. “Greek in Enclave Communities: Language Maintenance of the Varieties of Cypriot Romeika in Cyprus and Cretan Greek in Cunda, Turkey.” Mediterranean Language Review, vol. 26, 2019, pp. 157-186. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.13173/medilangrevi.26.2019.0157.

What is credible?