A Long Walk to Water
Harlem Renaissance
Poetry
A Plastic Ocean
Reading Skills
100

What is the setting in the beginning of the book

Sudan 

100

African-Americans left this part of the United States to come north?

What is the south

100

Who is the author of the poem, "Calling Dreams"

Who is Georgia Douglass Johnson

100

What is the main idea of the film A Plastic Ocean?

What is plastic is killing our oceans and it's sea life.

100

What is the definition of a main idea?

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage.

200

What is the name of the main character in the story?

Salva Dut

200

What is the Great Migration?

African-American's that left the South to come North for a better life

200

What is the name of the poem that became the Black National Anthem?

What is Lift Every Voice and Sing

200

What is type of material that is being thrown in our oceans?

What is plastic

200

What does the theme of a story mean?

The theme is the central idea of a story

300

What is the problem that is happening in the story?

There is a civil war in the Sudan

300

Jazz music, Entertainers, and writers.  Langston Hughes was which one of the three mentioned. 

What is a writer

300

What type of figurative language is the following statement?

He crept into the room as quiet as a mouse

What is a simile 

300

What is the definition of single-use plastic?

Single-use plastic is plastic that is used only once and then thrown away

300

What is the definition of an inference question?

An inference question is when you use clues from the story combined with your background knowledge to find an answer.

400

What are Salva and the other boys of the Sudan called?

The Lost Boys

400

What was the name of the painter who did many paintings of the Great Migration?

Who is Jacob Lawrence

400

What was the  theme of the poets of the Harlem Renaissance ?

What is to never give up on your dreams.  Life is hard but if you persevere then your dreams will happen.

400

What is the definition of Plankton?

Plankton is a mixture of very small plants and animals floating in fresh and saltwater.  It is an important food source for many animals in the water.

400

What is the author's purpose?

It is to inform, persuade, or entertain.

500

At the end of the story (called the resolution) what happens to Salva?

He is adopted by an American family

500

Where in the north did most African-American's settle down to live? 

What is Harlem or New York City.

500

What is the Golden Shovel Technique?

 Golden shovel poetry is a poetic form that takes a word from each line of an existing poem and uses them as the last word of each line in a new poem 

500

The United States throws away millions, billions, or trillions bottles of water every year.

What are billions.  In fact 38 billion bottles of water a year.

500

Is this statement a fact or an opinion?


The best game in the world is Fortnite

What is an opinion