ACE
The A in ACE stands for ___.
Answer
What is Ghost’s favorite snack?
Sunflower seeds.
Name the 3 sisters in One Crazy Summer.
Delphine, Vonetta and Fern
What is the last name of the main character's family?
Logan
What is a simile?
Figurative language that compares 2 objects; uses "like" or "as".
The E in ACE stands for ___.
Explain
What is an altercation?
A major conflict; an angry dispute or argument.
Why did the sisters go to California?
To visit their estranged mother, Cecile.
Name the main character and her 3 siblings.
Cassie, Stacey, Christopher John, Little Man
What is a summary?
When you take a long text and shorten it, finding only the main ideas.
The C in ACE stands for ___.
Cite
What is Ghost’s real name?
Castle Crenshaw
What was the name of the bridge that the narrator could see out of the airplane window on the way to California?
The Golden Gate Bridge
Why did Papa bring Mr. Morrison home with him?
To protect his family.
Grammar:
Name 4 of the 8 parts of speech
Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, pronoun, preposition
True or False: When writing an ACE response, you do NOT need to restate the question in your answer.
False
What happened to Coach’s Olympic Gold medal?
His dad sold it for $20.
Who ran the summer camp that the sisters attended while in California?
The Black Panthers
What was the name of the store that TJ, RW and Melvin robbed?
The Barnett Mercantile
Name any 4 text features that help us when we read.
Bold words, diagram, caption, glossary, table of contents, index, footnote, title, heading, subheading
What punctuation needs to be included when you cite evidence?
Quotation marks
What does Coach give Ghost when everyone else gets their uniform?
The wanted sign from the sports store with Ghost's photo on it.
Who were the leaders of the Black Panther movement?
Huey Newton and Bobby Seal
Name 2 historical events that were happening during the time of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, Sharecropping, Jim Crow Laws
What does it mean to “analyze” something?
To examine in detail.