ELA -LITERACY
THE HOUSES
JAMES BALDWIN
GEOGRAPHICS OF COLONIAL AMERICA
Are You Smarter Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
100

Time, place and environment are all elements of this literary device

What is the setting?

100

“NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS FACED CAN BE CHANGED. BUT …........."

What is

"NOTHING CAN BE CHANGED, UNTIL IT IS FACED"?

100

JAMES BALDWIN IS KNOWN AS A GREAT 20TH CENTURY WRITER AS HE EXPLORED AND SPOKE OUT ABOUT THIS EMOTIONALLY CHARGED SUBJECT OF AMERICA

What is

BLACK EXPERIENCE, RACIAL INEQUALITY OR SOCIAL INJUSTICE?

100

REGION IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE UNITED STATES

What is The NEW ENGLAND REGION?

100

What does PEMDAS stand for? In which order do we solve PEMDAS?

What is 

Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

Left --> Right

?

200

When reading a book and the main character is telling the story this is known as

What is first person Point of View?

200

THE HOUSE MANTRA THAT REPRESENTS THIS ICONIC PERSON

What is FAILURE IS A GREAT TEACHER?

200

JAMES BALDWIN IS SEEN HERE WITH THIS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AT A RALLY IN MEMPHIS, TN


Who is "MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.?"

200

REGION THAT WAS CONDUCIVE TO FARMING WHICH SPARKED THE COLONIAL ECONOMY

What is The SOUTHERN REGION?

200

What is a Star made of?

What is A Gas?


300


This type of Japanese poem's structure is 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables and normally is about nature

What is a haiku?

300

CATCH-PHRASE BY MICHELLE OBAMA, THAT HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY THE OBAMA HOUSE AS THEIR MANTRA

What is “WHEN THEY GO LOW, WE GO HIGH!”

300

IF JAMES BALDWIN WERE A STUDENT AT MS180, THIS WOULD BE HIS FAVORITE SUBJECT

What is ELA / LITERACY?

300

THIS HALF OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1800'S THREATENED TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION IF SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED

What is The SOUTH?

300

What do coordinate points tell us?

What is

LOCATION?

400

These two rivals were seen in S. E Hinton's acclaimed novel The Outsiders

Who are the Socs and Greasers?

400

“STAND UP, SPEAK OUT!!!”

Words that represent this Colvin House Icon, who is also known as

the first “Rosa Parks.”

Who is CLAUDETTE COLVIN?

400

JAMES BALDWIN WAS BORN IN THIS HAPPENING PART OF UPPER MANHATTAN DURING THIS AREAS GREAT RENAISSANCE PERIOD.

WHAT IS 

"HARLEM?"

400

THIS HALF OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1800'S BOASTED BIG BUSINESS, FACTORIES,  AND WERE THE WEALTHIEST BENEFICIARIES OF THE SLAVE TRADE

What is THE NORTH?

400

Another name for a 90 degree angle

What is RIGHT ANGLE?


500

This term is commonly provided to rebut a claim that was previously submitted in an argumentative essay.

What is a counterclaim?

500


PERHAPS A THEME SONG THAT COULD REPRESENT THESE 4 SCHOOL CORE VALUES


What is 

“RESILIENCE, INTERGRITY, SCHOLARSHIP AND EMPOWERMENT?”

500

WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE QUESTION IN WHICH JAMES BALDWIN GAVE THIS SPIRITED 1:01 RESPONSE?


What is 

(ANY REASONABLE WELL VERSED ANSWER PERTAINING TO RACIAL INJUSTICE)

500





THE REGION IN WHICH YOU CURRENTLY RESIDE IN

What is The MID ATLANTIC REGION?

500

The number of hours in 3 days


Who is

72 HOURS?