Into the Wild
The only tool Brian has after the plane crash.
What is a hatchet?
The Essential Question for Unit 2 that we considered before reading "Humans Are Not Meant to Live in Space". Should We....
What is "Should We Make a Home in Space?"
Laurie's fictional, troublemaking classmate in our recent short story
Who is Charles?
Robert Frost poem where the speaker chooses the path "less traveled by."
"The Road Not......."
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
This punctuation mark always separates dialogue from who said it.
What is a comma/quotation marks?
This natural disaster destroys Brian's shelter and flips the plane.
What is a tornado?
In an argumentative essay, this is the paragraph where a writer acknowledges the opposing side's view before proving it wrong.
What is the Counterclaim (or Rebuttal) paragraph?
When an author explicitly tells you exactly what a character is like.
What is Direct Characterization?
A comparison between two things that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The AI platform we used for structural edits on our Personal Narratives.
What is Magic School AI?
The same name as one of our SAVVAS articles, this special urban path helps protect city bees.
What is "The Bee Highway"?
In Ray Bradbury's sci-fi story, a family moves to Mars and becomes "alien"; what is the title?
What is "Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed"?
"The Dinner Party" proved women don't panic by using this animal.
What is a cobra?
In Blake's poem, unspoken anger grows into this deadly plant.
What is a poison tree (or poisoned fruit)?
The wise character who stole the sun in our February myth unit.
Who is Grandmother Spider?
This Sci-Fi story by Shinichi Hoshi features an bottomless hole in a village
What is "Hey, Come on Out"?
This country's research was featured in our article about building on the Moon.
What is Japan?
In "The Dinner Party," this specific substance is ordered by the hostess to lure the cobra outside.
What is milk (a bowl of milk)?
The repetition of the same starting consonant sounds in a row.
What is alliteration?
The specific title of the Indigenous origin story where animals plot to take back the daylight from the humans.
What is "Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon"?
Rachel Carson’s famous environmental text studied in January warned of a world without birds or nature
What is Silent Spring?
Students had to track and properly list sources at the end of their projects. What is this called?
What are Works Cited (or citations/references)?
Name a Flash Fiction stories we read
(Hint: pizza, monsters, food, wishes).
Answer: What are Infinite Pizza, Autoeats, Here Be Monsters, or The Wish Artist?
This specific project required students to apply their poetry skills to a single document for their favorite song.
What is a Song Analysis One-Pager?
The title of this February myth activity refers to a character who became too curious and created "sparks"?
What is "The Lantern of Zephyr"?