Lost Children of Sudan
This is the name of Salva's friend who is killed by a lion during their journey.
Who is Marial?
Dr. John Snow used this method, which involves going door-to-door, to get data on cholera.
What is the shoe-leather method?
This structural technique uses words with the same ending sound at the ends of lines.
Originally thought to be the cause of cholera, this word means "bad air"
What is miasma?
Inspired by a famous soccer team, this is the name of Mr. Midd's dog.
Who is Livie?
The Lost Children of Sudan fled to these two neighboring countries in Africa.
What are Ethiopia and Kenya?
This term refers to the concept that ideas/emotions can spread like diseases.
What is social contagion?
A Harlem Renaissance musical, featuring songs such as "Election Day," "Love Will Find a Way," and "I'm Just Wild About Harry."
What is Shuffle Along?
Often thought to be the opposite of "denotation," this term refers to the feelings or implied ideas of a word.
What is connotation?
Mrs. Millett lives on this lake.
What is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg or Webster Lake?
This structure, built in Nya's village at the end of the book, changes her life completely.
What is a water well or a school?
George Soper and this female doctor are credited with finding Mary Mallon and getting her tested for typhoid.
Who is Josephine Baker?
Named after a derogatory Black character in a minstrel show, this term refers to a system of Southern laws enforcing segregation and white supremacy from the 1870s to the 1960s.
What is Jim Crow?
This word, which rhymes with "raven," means a safe place.
What is a haven?
This animal is Mrs. McGrath's favorite.
What is a whale?
The main official language spoken in 22 countries, this is what Salva was learning in school right before he had to flee his village.
What is Arabic?
What is an asymptomatic carrier or a healthy carrier?
Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi
This prefix, often confused with "inter-," means within.
What is intra-?
This 7 Blue teacher played in Carnegie Hall when they were in high school.
Who is Mrs. Goguen?
The Second Sudanese Civil War began in 1983 and ended in this year.
What is 2005?
These are the three different types of plague.
What are bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic?
This structural technique, often employed by Yoda, inverts the typical subject-verb-object order of ideas in a clause.
What is anaphora?
This word, appearing in the short story "His Motto," means a prophecy or prediction.
What is a prognostication?
Ms. Copeland's brother is older than her by this amount of time.
What is one minute?