2024 ELA

Short Stories

100

a young boy finds joy in drawing as he learns to live through many challenges, both social and physical, all the while living in a reservation 

"black eye of the month club"

200

the story of a class of schoolchildren living on Venus, where it rains year-round and the sun only appears once every seven years

All Summer in a Day 

300

set during the Irish Civil War, there is a deadly standoff in the middle of the night

The Sniper

400

a short story that explores the complex relationship between a mother and her two daughters

Everyday Use

500

a short story about a Bengali man who moves to London in 1964 and then to Boston a few years later.

Third and Final Continent

Things Fall Apart

100

The (main) setting of our story

Umuofia

200

The author 

Chinua Achebe

300

Okonkwo's motherland (where he lives during his exile)

Mbanta

400

The reason for Okonkwo's exile 

Accidentally shoots a young boy during a ceremony (gun explodes)

500

The king of the crops

yams

Pipeline

100

She wrote this play

Dominique Morisseau 

200

She wrote the play that Nya teaches in her class 

Gwendolyn Brooks

300

He wrote the novel that Omari's class was reading 

Richard Wright 

400

Omari's School 

Fernbrook

500

the number of rules/instructions that Omari creates 

9

Literary Devices

100

"Cautiously he raised himself and peered over the parapet. There was a flash and a bullet whizzed over his head. He dropped immediately. He had seen the flash. It came from the opposite side of the street."

suspense

200

"The skin will yield like  silk, like rubber, like the strop."

simile 

300

"...the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats."

metaphor

400

 "Will it be seven more years ?" 

 "Yes. Seven." 

 Then one of them gave a little cry.  "Margot !" 

 "What ?" 

 "She’s still in the closet where we locked her." 

 "Margot." 

dialogue

500

"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe."

characterization

random!

100

Wrote "Marriage is a private affair" & "Dead man's path"

Chinua Achebe

200

Sheila 

Xavier's Girlfriend

300

Wrote "Everyday Use" 

Alice Walker 

400

Mr. Brown's successor (and the total opposite of him)

Mr. Smith 

500

Wrote "Third and Final Continent"

Jhumpa Lahiri