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100

A word that means something is very far from what is normal, ordinary, or balanced

What is extreme?

100

The definition of boycott. 

To withhold money or participation in a particular activity in protest of the values, actions, or policy of that company (until they change!)

100

The name of Junior's older sister. 

Who is Mary?

100

The branch of government that creates laws.

What is the legislative branch?

100

The word for text or media that supports your claim. 

What is evidence?

200

A word meaning combining multiple groups together.

What is to integrate?

200

The definition of Manifest Destiny.

What is a belief that the United States has the divine (God-given) right to expand its borders?

200

The name of a character who dies in the Outsiders.

Who is Johnny or Dally or Bob?

200

The length of time that a Supreme Court justice serves. 

What is for life (or until they choose to retire)?

200

The kind of thinking or idea that is not obvious and requires further explanation. A form of critical thinking.

What is 2nd layer thinking?

300

A verb meaning to fade over time or treat another less than.

What is to diminish?

300

One of the reasons for the American Revolutionary War. 

What is: taxation without representation, tyranny from Britain, or desire for westward expansion.

300

What happened to Ponyboy's parents?

They died in a car crash. 

300

When the Supreme Court rules a law unconstitutional that means...

It means that a law is in violation of citizens' Constitutional rights and should be removed/changed, and no similar law can be created. 

300

Name the six AH skill areas. 

LaMA, OP, AE, Writing, Reading, Research

400

A noun meaning that you jump to a conclusion about a person, group, or idea.

What is an assumption?

400

Name one tenant of the Black Panther Party's platform. 

POINT ONE:

  • We want freedom and the power     to determine Black community's destinies.

 

POINT TWO:

  • We want full EMPLOYMENT of     our people. If you don't give it to us, we'll take your businesses and the     money made by them for our own. 

 

POINT THREE: 

  • The US has murdered millions     of black people - therefore the government promised us 40 acres and 2     mules for the cruelty of slavery - we still want those.

 

POINT FOUR:

  • If you don't give us decent     housing, then give us the resources to provide housing for our people.

 

POINT FIVE: 

  • All people, white and black,     deserve education and to know what black people went through - they need     to know this in order to relate

 

POINT SIX: 

  • Black Americans should not be     forced to serve the army under a racist government

 

POINT SEVEN: 

  • We want an immediate end to     police brutality - and should bear arms for self defense

 

POINT EIGHT:

  • All Black people should be     released from prison because they did not have a fair trial. 

POINT NINE: 

  • A Black person should be     tried fairly by other black people, not white juries
400

The Boston area author who wrote the Tell Tale Heart, (the story we read on Halloween!) who is a famous gothic writer.

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

400
The name of the type of government that the U.S. follows. 

What is a democratic republic? 

400

The definition of reasoning/analysis. 

What is to explain how your evidence/quotes support your overall argument?
500

A word for the study of how government works and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. 

What is civics?

500

The Four I's of Oppression outline how any form of oppression is a system that appears in society in FOUR dimensions. Name all four:

What is Interpersonal, Ideological, Internalized, and Institutional?

500

The kind of school Mr. P used to work at, and why he apologizes to Junior after Junior hits him in the face with a book.

What is a residential boarding school for Native American youth?

500

All the rights protected under the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. (Hint: there are five!)

What is freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition?

500

The word to describe the layout of a piece or where an artist wants their viewer's eyes to go when looking at their visual creation.

What is composition?