Reading
This short story had a main character named Adam Zebrin, who changes from a bitter and gloomy kid to a pleasant life form.
What is Zebra
The part of speech that describes a person, place, or thing.
What is an adjective
The very useful tool, paid for by the county, that allows students to keep track of their citations.
What is NoodleTools
A grouping of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza
The day we always had Writer's Notebook prompts.
What is Friday
Life on Mars wasn't easy for Harry Bittering in this Ray Bradbury short story.
What is "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
The part of speech that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun
The paragraph of an essay that restates the thesis in new language, reviews the previous main points, and ends with a final sentence that concludes, inspires, or motivates.
What is the conclusion paragraph
The literary device often used in poetry that is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration
The name of Ms. Carleton's daughter.
What is Edith (or Edie)
The invention Prometheus gave humans despite Zeus' warning not to.
What is fire
The verb tense of the following sentence: "Back in the day I could swim 4 miles in 30 minutes! It was awesome."
What is past tense
This gives your essay a purpose; without one, the essay doesn't make a clear point.
What is a thesis statement
The type of figurative language used in the following excerpt from "The Rose that Grew from Concrete":
"Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet."
What is personification
The team that won Field Day.
What is the blue team
The theme of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street".
What is, "Fear and suspicion can cause normal, peaceful people to turn on one another."
The type of sentence this is (simple, compound, compound-complex): "After the officer pulled Tim over, Tim began to cry, and the officer took pity on him".
What is a compound-complex sentence
This is where you can find credible research and resources for your writing assignments.
What are the AACPS Online Resources (databases)
The common theme among "Midway," "As I Grew Older," and "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".
What is, "No matter what stands in the way of your dream, you can always find your dream and fight for it."
The two Advisory rotation lessons you learned about in Ms. Carleton's room.
What are "Homophone Escape Room" and "E-mail Etiquette"
The topic of "Like Black Smoke".
What is The Black Plague
The type of phrase used in the following sentence: "My brother's car, a sporty red convertible with bucket seats, is the envy of my friends."
What is an appositive phrase
The location of the tagline in the following sentence: "Hey Mom!" I yelled as I can running into the house, "where are you?"
What is the middle
The type of figurative language that is used in the following excerpt from "Midway":
"I'm climbing to the highway from my old dirt track"
What is a metaphor
These were the eight novel choices offered this year (all quarters combined).
What are: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Red Kayak, Gifted Hands, Anne Frank, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Ravenmaster's Secret, The Cay, One Crazy Summer