Bellringers
Native American Literature
17th Century Literature
18th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
100
True or False: Have the Christmas trees been sold?
False
100
What animal's back did the Native Americans believe the Earth was formed on?
A Turtle
100
True or False: Not being able to say the 10 Commandments is considered evidence of witchcraft in The Crucible.
True
100
What paragraph does a thesis go in?
The introduction
100
Who is the narrator of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Diedrich Knickerbocker
200
What is another name for a predicate?
A Verb
200
According to Native American legend, what animal gave humans fire?
The coyote
200
Who is the main antagonist in Arthur Miller's The Crucible?
Abigail Williams
200
What is the shocking discovery in William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy?
Harriot & Harrington are siblings
200
Who is the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Washington Irving
300
What are the three types of dependent clauses?
Noun, Adjective, & Adverbial
300
DAILY DOUBLE: What present-day state was the lost colony of Roanoke in?
North Carolina
300
Describe the two reasons as to why a ".com" blog post about how fun Salem, MA is in the winter would not be a reputable source for an essay on the Salem Witch Trials?
1. It's a personal opinion not peer-reviewed
2. It's not about the topic of the paper
300
What is an epistolary novel?
A novel made up of letters
300
How did the Headless Horseman lose his head?
It was blown off by a cannonball
400
What are the four sentence structures?
Simple, Complex, Compound, & Compound-Complex
400
What three future states had geographic literature written about them that we read in class?
New York, Carolina, & Pennsylvania
400
What evidence is used against Goody Proctor in scene II of The Crucible?
A Poppet
400
What are the three types of rhetorical appeal?
Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
400
What are the two other names of Sleepy Hollow?
Greenburgh & Tarry Town
500
What are the 5 sentence types?
Imperative, Declarative, Exclamatory, Conditional, & Interrogative
500
What are the four nicknames for the four levels of questioning?
Judge, Scientist, Robot, & Detective
500
What is a list of sources, like books or articles, where each source is followed by a brief paragraph that summarizes its content and evaluates its relevance and usefulness for a particular research project?
An Annotated Bibliography
500
If we wrote a traditional style essay with 8 paragraphs, how many topic sentences, not including the thesis, would it contain?
6
500
From the text, what are the four prevailing theories on what happened to Ichabod Crane?
He ran away after encountering the real Headless Horseman; He ran away after encountering Brom dressed as the Headless Horseman; He drowned in the river; He was carried off by the Headless Horseman