Science
Fiction Terms
Reading and Writing Terms
Grammar
Skeleton Crew
100

a procedure carried out to test a hypothesis

an experiment

100

The things characters say in a play or movie

What is dialogue?

100

A group of sentences (often about 3-8) about one topic

What is a paragraph?

100

Two things every sentence needs

What are a subject and a verb?

100

The four characters of Skeleton Crew

Who are Faye, Dez, Shanita, and Reggie?

200

a testable guess or explanation for something that happens

What is a hypothesis?
200

A person in a work of fiction

What is a character?

200

The exact words of a piece of writing or speech, put in marks like this " "

What is a quote or quotation?

200

The FANBOYS conjunctions

What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?

200

The illness that Faye suffered from

What is breast cancer?

300

Something you notice with the five senses

What is an observation?

300

A problem in a piece of fiction - for example, when two characters want different things, or a character wants something they can't have

What is a conflict?

300

A piece of writing designed to make people think or act a certain way

What is an argument?

300

A grammatical mistake when two or more sentences are joined together without punctuation to separate them

What is a run on?

300

The reason Faye is sleeping at the plant

What is she couldn't keep up with her house payments?

400

The passing on of traits and characteristics from one generation to another

What is heredity?

400

The change in characters over time

What is character development?

400

The thing a piece of writing is generally about

What is a topic?

400

A grammar mistake when a sentence lacks a subject and/or verb

What is a fragment?

400

The number of Acts in the play Skeleton Crew

What is two?

500

Darwin's idea that organisms that are well-suited to their environment are more likely to survive and have offspring

What is natural selection?

500

The events of a piece of fiction

What is a plot?

500

Something good evidence should be

What is trustworthy, relevant, adequate?

500

The three punctuation marks that can end a sentence

What are Period (.) Question mark (?) Exclamation point (!)

500

What Shanita threw at a Mack truck

What is a chocolate Frosty from Wendys?