Short Story Energy
In this short story, an artist from out of town paints a mural paying homage to tight-knit community.
What is The War of the Wall
This comedian titled his memoir Born a Crime because, under apartheid laws, his birth to a Black mother and white father was literally illegal in South Africa.
Who is Trevor Noah?
A collection of lines, these are the "paragraphs" of poetry.
What is a stanza?
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Classes generally began with these 5 minute writing prompts.
What are Do Nows?
In this short story, a resentful husband dies after choking on a board game piece.
What is Death by Scrabble?
Sandra Cisneros wrote The House on Mango Street as a collection using this style of writing.
What are vignettes?
A Japanese poetic form consisting of three lines with a 5, 7, 5 syllable structure.
What is a Haiku?
A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
This public university includes famous alumni such as Mr. Jacobs and THE Two-Time Timmons.
What is UW-Milwaukee?
In this short story, two aliens conclude that humans are not worth their time.
What is They're Made of Meat?
As a result of this indecent act, Trevor Noah's whole neighborhood comes joins together to pray away the demons.
What is pooping in the middle of grandmas kitchen?
In poetry, this is the point at which a line of text ends and a new one begins, regardless of punctuation.
What are line breaks?
The central message or insight about life conveyed by a story or poem.
This summer, Mr. Jacobs will graduate with this degree.
What is a masters (In English Ed?)
In this short story, the government creates equality by forcing handicaps on anyone considered to be above-average in any way.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
In The House on Mango Street, the narrator shares her dream of owning a house and opening up the attic for the homeless, referring to them using this slang term.
What is bums?
This poetic form is generally used to pay tribute to, or praise a specific person, place, or thing.
What is an ode?
This literary device appeals to the five senses, creating vivid mental pictures or sensations for the reader.
What is imagery?
This was our first assignment of the semester.
What are soundtracks/album covers?
In this short story, two young boys are seemingly oblivious to a mother's racial stereotyping.
What is After You, My Dear Alphonse?
In Born a Crime, Trevor claims that most things that went wrong in his life were because of these.
What are secondhand cars?
This poetic form uses the first letter of each line to spell out a specific word or phrase.
What is acrostic poetry?
This visual representation outlines the main events of a story, typically including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot diagram?
Hailing from Fayetteville, N.C. This hip-hop artist is featured on Mr. J's shortlist of absolute favorites.
Who is Jermaine (J.) Cole?