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100

You should always have one of these.

What is a book?

100

Wednesday, December 21

What is the first day of winter?

100

The time and place (or when and where) of the story.

What is setting?

100

Mr. Mac will avoid going to any store on this day.

What is Black Friday?

100

Mr. Mac's favorite class.

What is period 4?

200

Best ELA teacher at GMMS.

Who is Mrs. Matthews?

200

These are shorter in winter than in summer.

What are days?

200

The universal message of the story.

What is theme?

200

Americans prepare 46 million of these for Thanksgiving each year.

What is turkey?

200

The largest city in the world.

What is Toyko?

300
Fiction based on imagined, future, scientific, or technological advances, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.

What is science fiction?

300

Between 1 and 3 milligrams.

What is the average snowflake size?

300

A struggle between two opposing forces in a story.

What is conflict?

300

The President of the United States does this to a turkey every year.

What is pardon?

300

Boba Fett is a character in this series.

What is Star Wars?

400

5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

What is a haiku?

400

Better for making snowmen.

What is wet snow?

400

Language used to create images in the mind of the reader.

What is imagery?

400

Objectively, the best side dish.

What is stuffing?

400

This event is 26.2 miles long.

What is a marathon?

500

Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet

What are Shakespeare's plays?

500

The best holiday movie.

What is Elf?

500

A scene in a movie or a book that is set in a time earlier than the main story.

What is flashback?

500
The first Thanksgiving took place this year. 

What is 1621?

500

Mr. McNamara's son

Who is Jasper?