Mr. Richards's class
The amount of time you're allowed to go to the bathroom
What is 5 minutes?
This northeast African country's capital is Khartoum.
What is Sudan?
Mr. Richards spent 13 years living in this country.
What is Japan?
This author once shot an elephant
Who is George Orwell?
A part of speech denoting a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
This exam assesses how well you can write a professional email
What is the Writing WorkKeys?
Only one student in the class comes from this country bordering the United States.
What is Mexico?
*Sing* Mr. Richards has a dog and _____ is his name-o!
What is BINGO?
Wishes made with this cursed item will always backfire.
What is a monkey's paw?
"The team of swimmers are coming for dinner" is correct in British English but NOT American English. This is the correct, American way to say it.
What is, "The team of swimmers is coming for dinner"?
This pyramid-shaped concept holds that people's basic needs must be met before they can pursue greater goals like finding love, self-esteem, or achieving one's dreams.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Home to the world's tallest mountain, this country ended its monarchy in 2008.
What is Nepal?
Mr. Richards's favorite movie
What is Pee Wee's Big Adventure?
In Hemingway's "The End of Something," Nick breaks up with Marjorie because doing this activity with her "isn't fun anymore."
What is fishing?
This part of speech describes a verb, telling how an action happens
What is an adverb?
The Schoology image for this class is Emo Spongebob, but in the first semester it was this other yellow cartoon character.
Who is Maggie Simpson?
This year, Mr. Richards's class had students with this many native languages
What is nine? (Arabic, Spanish, Nepali, Pashto, Cantonese, Malay, French, Azeri, Turkish)
Mr. Richards has two children: 11-year-old soccer star AJ and this sweet, silly, and crafty 8-year-old.
Who is Alice?
The women of colonial Salem referred to each other using this honorific title ("Hello, ____ Proctor!")
What is Goody?
This style of writing can make it difficult to know who is performing the action in a sentence (e.g., "Zaza was murdered.")
What is passive voice?
This concept outlines the eight stages of human development, centered around key conflicts that tend to characterize that period of life.
What is Erikson's theory of development?
This year, Mr. Richards's class had students hailing from this number of countries
What is 14? (Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Guinea, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Nepal)
When Mr. Richards was a high school exchange student, he lived near this western Japanese city.
What is Osaka? (also acceptable: What is Kobe?)
The epic hero Beowulf gained fame by defeating this monstrous villain.
Who is Grendel?
This type of noun refers to an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
What is an abstract noun?