Research Writing
MLA? MLSlay!
Hidden Figures
The Screwtape Letters
Bookish
Class Superlatives
Wild Thang
100

“This step helps a researcher decide what they already know and what they still need to learn.”

Brainstorm Writing 

100

This spacing style is used throughout an MLA paper, including the Works Cited page.

Double Spacing 

100

The women in Hidden Figures worked as human computers at which organization?

Nasa

100

In what decade was The Screwtape Letters first published?

The 1940s

100

This traveling companion wants a heart, yet shows deep care and emotion from the very beginning.

Sit Thomas More

100

Which person in our class is most likely to burst out in dancing?

Jefferson

100

What student at Compass Academy has been banned from the Golden Plunger?

Riley

200

“A topic like ‘sports’ is too broad, so a student should do this to make it more specific.”

Narrow the Topic

200

In MLA format, all margins should usually be this size.

1 Inch

200

Which mathematician calculated the flight trajectory for John Glenn's 1962 orbital mission?

Katherine Johnson

200

Screwtape is a senior demon writing letters to his nephew. What is the nephew's name?

Wormwood

200

Odysseus's faithful wife, who spends years weaving and unraveling a shroud to delay her suitors.

Penelope

200

Which person in our class is most likely to leave behind an origami boat?

Taylor

200

Which team built the strongest Guillotine?

Girls

300

“This kind of note includes the exact words from a source and must use quotation marks.”

A Direct Quote

300

This font and size are commonly recommended for MLA papers.

Times New Roman, 12

300

At which Virginia facility did most of the events in Hidden Figures take place?

Langley Research Center

300

What do Screwtape and Wormwood call their master?

Our Father Below

300

In Julius Ceasar, Caesar speaks these three words — among the most famous in all of Shakespeare — when he sees Brutus among his attackers.

"Et tu, Bruté?"

300

Which person is most likely to go viral?

Bradley

300

Which planet has the most moons?

Saturn

400

Researchers use this to keep track of where information came from.

Citation

400

This information is usually included in an MLA in-text citation.”

Authors Last name and page number

400

The Black female mathematicians at NACA were assigned to a segregated section known as what?

The West Computing Group

400

What is the unnamed human Wormwood is assigned to called throughout the book?

The Patient

400

The conspirators assassinate Caesar on this date, now one of the most famous days in history.

The Ides of March (March 15th)

400

Which person in our class is most likely to have the best playlist?

Preston
400

How long does light from the Sun take to reach Earth?

8 Minutes
500

This document assures that students sources are easy to find and accessible. 

A Works Cited

500

If no author is listed, MLA uses this instead in the citation.”

The title of the Source

500

Mary Jackson had to get special permission to attend a segregated night school to pursue which career?

Aerospace engineer

500

Screwtape instructs Wormwood to keep the Patient distracted from what, above all?

God and genuine prayer

500

In The Alchemist, the main character pursues his dreams--what is this called in the book?

Personal Legend

500

Which person in our class is most likely to be an engineer?

Briella

500

How many hours have we been in class together over the course of the year?

93

600

A ".gov" or ".edu" website is generally considered more credible than this type of domain, which anyone can purchas

.com

600

This appears in the upper-right corner of every page in MLA format.

last name and page number

600

Dorothy Vaughan taught herself and her team which programming language to prepare for the computing era?

FORTRAN

600

What happens to Wormwood at the end of the book? 

Screwtape eats him

600

Name one lesson Santiago learns repeatedly throughout the story 

that the journey itself, not just the destination, is where real treasure is found.

600

Which person in our class is most likely to be the real life Katniss Everdeen?

Mack
600

Translate the phrase on on the golden plunger from latin into english.

Obstaculum menti removere — "To remove the obstruction for the mind."