Get to Know Mr. Raaflaub
The number of sons that Mr. Raaflaub has
What are two
What is The Outsiders?
Genre based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social/environmental changes
What is science fiction?
This movie we watch during the Hero's Journey unit features Killmonger as the main antagonist
What is Black Panther?
The central idea or lesson an author conveys
What is theme?
Mr. Raaflaub has seen this band, his favorite, twenty different times.
Who is Pearl Jam?
This is the fourth book in the coming of age Harry Potter book/movie series.
a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past
What is historical fiction?
This classic love story written by William Shakespeare is "performed" in ELA during the spring
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Use of clues to suggest something is about to happen
What is foreshadowing?
This tv show, featuring Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer, is a favorite of Mr. Raaflaub.
What is Seinfeld?
This famous coming of age novel has characters named Atticus Finch, Scout, and Jem.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Genre perfected by author Stephen King
What is horror?
This rapper of "Changes" and "California Love" wrote a poem we discuss in October in ELA.
Who is Tupac?
the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader, embodying the overall feeling or atmosphere
What is mood/tone?
Mr. Raaflaub coaches this sport, which he ran in high school and prepares for by running half-marathons.
What is Cross Country?
This coming of age novel is narrated by Starr Carter.
What is The Hate U Give?
Genre which is a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources
What is a memoir/autobiography?
This president helped us get out of the Great Depression, one of the historical eras we study during our "Pen in the Past" ELA unit.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
a style using images or objects to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind
What is symbolism?
Mr. Raaflaub has been teaching for this many years, including the past two years at WFBMS
What are 20 years?
The coming of age book The Book Thief takes place during which historical event?
The Holocaust/WW2
We learn about this civil rights abolitionist, photographed more in the 19th century than anyone besides Abe Lincoln, during our nonfiction unit.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
a state of affairs or an event that seems opposite to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
What is irony?