5/6 Jeopardy - Reading/MLK

Comprehension

100

$100: The time and place in which a story occurs.

Setting

200

$200: The central message or lesson of a story is called this.

Theme

300

$300: A story with a moral lesson, typically involving animals as characters, is known as this.

A. Fiction

B. Fable

C. Myth

D. Fantasy

B. Fable

400

$400: A figure of speech where human traits are given to objects or ideas.

A. Idiom

B. Personification

C. Simile

D. Onomatopoeia

B. Personification

500

$500: A story set in a real, historical time period, combining historical facts and fiction.

A. Fiction

B. Non-fiction

C. Mystery

D. Historical Fiction

D. Historical Fiction

Decoding

100

Phonics

$100: In the word 'knight', the 'k' is an example of this kind of letter.

Silent Letter

200

Syllables

$200: The number of syllables in the word 'banana'.

3 

300

Prefixes

$300: The prefix that means 'again' and is found in 'redo'.

Re-

400

Root words

$400: The root word meaning 'life' found in 'biology'.

bio

500

Vocabulary Strategies

$500: To figure out an unknown word's meaning, you might look at these that come before and after it.

​A. Context Clues
B. Word Parts
C. Mental Image
D. Analogies​​​

A. Context Clues

Phonics

100

Vowel Sounds

$100: The short vowel sound in 'desk'.

Short 'e'

200

Consonant Blends

$200: The blend sound found in 'grass'.

The blend 'gr'

300

Prefixes

$300: This prefix in 'misunderstand' suggests an error.

Prefix - 'mis'

400

Suffixes

$400: The suffix in 'friendship' that means the state of being.

Suffix - 'ship'

500

Phonemes

$500: The number of phonemes in 'strength'.

7

RANDOM Test

100

Famous Authors

$200: She wrote the famous 'Harry Potter' series.

J.K. Rowling

200

Geography

$200: The capital city of France.

Paris

300

Science

$300: This organ pumps blood throughout the human body.

Heart

400

Mathematics

$400: This is the term for a number that is only divisible by 1 and itself.

A. Odd Number

B. Even Number

C. Prime Number

D. Division

C. Prime Number

500

History

$500: The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

A. 1776

B. 1783

C. 1621

D. 1607

A. 1776

• 1607: The English established the Jamestown colony in Virginia
• 1621: The First Thanksgiving
  
• 1776: The United States of America declared independence
• 1783: The Revolutionary War ended

MLK

100

$100: The city where Martin Luther King Jr. was born.

A. Atlanta

B. Montgomery

C.Boston

D. Chicago

A. Atlanta

200

$200: The name of the movement aimed at ending racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States.

C. The Civil Rights Movement

300

$300: His father's profession, which Martin also followed.

Minister

What is the true meaning of a minister?

a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.

400

$400: Year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

A. 1956

B. 1963

C. 1964

D. 1968

D. 1968

January 30, 1956

• King's home is bombed in Montgomery, Alabama by white people who were angry about the bus boycott
  
  
  August 28, 1963
  
• King gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest protest in US history at the time
  
  
  December 10, 1964
  
• King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35, making him the youngest person to ever receive the award at the time
  
  
  April 4, 1968
  
• King is assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting a strike by sanitation workers 

  
  

500

Finish the Quote:

$500: This famous quote begins 

"I have a dream...that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the _______________ but by the content of their _________"?

"I have a dream...that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"?