Unit 2
Animal Allies
Unit 3
Modern Technology
Unit 1
Childhood
Unit 5
Exploration
Unit 4
Imagination
100

Who is famous for studying chimpanzees in Gombe National Park and writing My Life with the Chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall

100

What type of essay did you write for your Modern Technology unit?

Argumentative essay

100

What is the name for the type of writing in which an author tells a true story from their own life?


*100 BONUS EVERYONE CAN GET POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:Name a memoir that we read this year. 

Memoir



* from Bad Boy, from Brown Girl Dreaming

100

What is the highest mountain on Earth?

Mount Everest

100

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what creature does Alice follow until she falls into the deep well?

White Rabbit

200

In which country was “Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog” set?

Japan

200

What year was the iPhone invented?


* 200 Bonus EVERYONE can answer: When was google created?

2007


* 1998

200

What skill did Michaela DePrince become famous for?

Ballet

200

What is the name of the character who spent many years travelling from Troy back home to Ithaca?

Odysseus

200

What is the name of the creature that was slain by the vorpal sword?

Jabberwock

300

Who is the “black cowboy” in the story “Black Cowboy, Wild Horses,” who was born a slave and then became a famous and successful cowboy?

Bob Lemmons

300

What is the most popular social media site among teenagers?

YouTube

300

What is the name of the stuffed tiger who is Calvin’s imaginary friend?

Hobbes 

300

What online tool did Saroo Birerley use to locate his hometown in A Long Way Home?

Google Earth

300

In ELA, what term refers to how an author shows a character’s traits or personality in a piece of writing?

Characterization

400

What did Jane Goodall discover that David Greybeard could do which scientists had previously thought only humans could do?

Make tools

400

What is the name for “regular” writing that is not poetry and uses paragraphs instead of lines?

Prose

400

Who was the youngest person to climb the “seven summits,” or the highest mountain on each of the seven continents?

Samantha Larson

400

What is the name for a three-dimensional geometric figure with twelve faces? (Hint: it is a character in The Phantom Tollbooth.)

Dodecahedron

500

What is the name of the pet canary who saved the astronauts in the story “Feathered Friend”?


*500 BONUS EVERYONE CAN GET POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: What is the only land animal that cannot jump?

Claribel



* BONUS: elephant 🐘

500

What is the literary device Leena Khan uses to compare technology to a black hole?

Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another.  

500

What country was Michaela DePrince born in?

Sierra Leone

500

In ELA, what is the term for a message or statement about life that is expressed through a piece of writing?

Theme

500

This word means to be sluggish or have low energy. In The Phantom Tollbooth, the creatures living in the Doldrums get their name from this word. What is the word?

Lethargic/lethargy