Shakespearean England & Romeo and Juliet
8th Grade Grammar
The Civil Rights Movement
8th Grade Math
8th Grade History
100
What is the name of the theater where Shakespeare’s plays were performed?
What is The Globe Theater?
100
Identify the direct object in the following sentence:
Did you give the dog her special bone at the start of the day?
What is bone?
100
Dr. King visited this city to support the sanitation workers strike. He stayed at the Motel Lorraine, where he spent his final moments.
What is Memphis?
100
Write the following number in standard form.
0.023 ×104
230
100
The House of Representatives and the Senate make up ________________.
What is Congress?
200
When Romeo is still upset by Rosaline’s rejection, what advice does Benvolio give him?
What is find another girl?
200
Identify the subject in the following sentence:
Which green leafy vegetable would you like?
What is you?
200
This scholar was the first black American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
200
Solve for x.
x = 3
200
In the American system of Checks and Balances, which branch of government has the power to impeach the president and impeach judges?
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
How does Romeo find out about the Capulet party AND why does he decide to go?
- The Capulet’s illiterate servant asks Romeo to read the guest list
- Romeo decides to go because Rosaline will be there
300
Identify the adverb in the following sentence:
Don’t call your tired grandparents in the middle of the night.
What is not?
300
This man was born into slavery and went on to become the most influential black American of his time. He stressed the importance of practical, job oriented skills for black Americans. In a speech he made at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition he famously asked white farmers to "Cast down [their] bucket" and hire black Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
$3.25
300
After the Civil War, the expansion of ________ became the driving force behind America’s growth. It created new economic links in the country, carried ore, coal, and timber to factories, carried manufactured goods to markets, and boosted the steel business.
What are railroads?
400
Why did Queen Elizabeth refuse to marry? What would happen if she had married?
What is: Queen Elizabeth refused to marry in order to retain her power. If she had married, her power would have been transferred to her husband.
400
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence:
You should give baseball a try.
What is baseball?
400
On March 7, 1965, civil rights activists led a march from Selma to Montgomery to protest voter suppression and the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson. Marchers were met by state troopers who attacked them on this bridge.
Hint: We walked across this bridge on our trip.
What is: The Edmund Pettus Bridge
400
Add the polynomials.
10x2 + 5
400
"Remember the _____" refers to a US battleship that exploded and sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, leading to the Spanish-American War, with the phrase "Remember the _____" becoming a rallying cry.
What was the name of the battleship?
What is the Maine?
500
Who says: "If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
Who is The Prince?
500
Identify what the word older is functioning as in the sentence below:
I naturally felt older.
What is Predicate Adjective?
500
In the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, the court ruled that racial segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for separate races were "equal".
Which court case later unanimously overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
What is the length of the missing side of the right triangle?
13
500
Andrew Carnegie's steel company implemented ______ integration by controlling...
- the raw materials needed to make steel
- the transportation of materials and finished products
- the steel mills and facilities that converted raw materials into finished steel products
What is vertical integration?