Hodge Podge
Vocab
The dreaded Gatsby Category
Roaring '20s
Potpurri
100
four wheel drive
100
define:
obligingly
willing to do as asked.
100
She is the wife of George Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan and shares a name with a popular vacation spot in SC
Who is Myrtle
100
The dance craze of this era shares it's name with a southern capital
What is the Charleston
100
This country's team took home gold in hockey at the Winter Olympics in Milano/Cortina
Who is team USA
Double Jeopardy
Which team won gold Mens or Womens?
200
We have read this many books as a class in ELA this year.
What is three
200
define:
juxtaposition
comparing or contrasting two or more things side by side.
200
These two places symbolize two classes/types of wealth in America during this time.
What are West and East Egg?
200
This era has a second nickname that means 'clad in gold' and is the homophone of a work collective.
What is the Gilded Age.
200
What is Afternoon Tea
300
This alliterative star performed the Super Bowl half time show this year.
Who is Bad Bunny
300
define:
obssesion
a persistent focus on a particular idea, often an unreasonable focus.
300
Tom Buchanan went to Yale and is incredibly wealthy so he does not like Gatsby labeling him as:
What is the Polo Player
300
The roaring '20s got its moniker because it was the first time Americans had this is abundance.
Money, time, ease
300
Netflix premiered the final season of this original series that follows kids as they fight a dark enemy in Hawkins Indiana
What is Stranger Things
400
This is the reason that Ms. Colvin loves The Great Gatsby
What is its figurative language?
400
Define:
the American Dream
The concept that one can move up in class through hard work. Or that ones generation will be better off than the generation that came before.
400
Who was riding in the car that killed Myrtle and who's car was it?
J. Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan in Gatsby's car
400
This class of people were granted the right to vote at the start of this era.
Who are women
400
John Jay has this many snow days left before the school district needs to start removing vacation days from the calendar?
What is zero
500
To earn the Civic Seal for graduation you had to attain what grade on your podcast/presentation without extra credit.
What is an 85
500
What is the root word and meaning of:
irreparably
root word: pair
meaning to make ready
Double Jeopardy:
break into the full prefix/ root/ suffix and give the definition
500
List 5 motifs from The Great Gatsby
Yearning/Green light/Greed, Recklessness/Cars, Eyes of God/TJ Eckleberg, Pride/selfishness, The American Dream
Double Jeopardy:
turn one of them into a theme.
500
What financial catlyst marked the end of the '20s and started the Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929
500
She sang America the Beautiful at this years Super Bowl and is known for her folk roots and is part of female super group The Highwomen
Who is Brandi Carlile