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Pod Fun Facts
Unit Review
Texts + Films
100

Ms. Pod (jokingly) calls this student her favourite. BUT she has lots of favourite.

Zack

100

This refers the main message of a story.

Theme

100

Pod's favourite music artist, even though Hooman doesn't support it.

Taylor Swift

100

This person is the main villain in the Hunger Games series.

President Snow

100

This is Katniss's sister, whose name gets drawn to participate in the Hunger Games.

Primrose Everdeen

200

This student makes Ms. Pod laugh / bang her head against her desk.

Axle

200

This is a 3-line poem with a specific (5-7-5) syllable structure.

Haiku

200

Pod's BFF, who makes her things, and whose coffee machine she uses every day. Aimee, Jessica, and Claire have taken field trips to his classroom.

Gali

200

Ms. Pod banned stories being written about this problematic music producer, often featured in Hooman, Axle, and Tanveer's work.

Diddy.

200

This is the sequel to The Hunger Games.

Catching Fire

300

This student has missed the most classes this semster.

Elijah

300

The statement which serves as your main argument in an essay.

Thesis

300

Ms. Pod volunteers for this RSS extracurricular every Monday and Wednesday.

Musical Theatre - performances next month!

300

This is the name of your first project, where you wrote a story about yourself, and Shae made Ms. Pod cry.

Personal Narrative

300

You wrote Little Buddy stories based on this prompt, and Victor's was super wholesome and sweet.

If I was Trapped in a Snowglobe...

400

These twins recently went back to Mexico and Ms. Pod cried.

Antonio + Karla

400

This is the part of a sentence that could stand alone on its own because it has a subject and verb.

Independent Clause

400

This is Ms. Pod's astrological sign.

Gemini

400

Teacher (just initial or first name) whose class we did Little Buddies with, and Kaden and Mario's buddies had bad attitudes.

Ms. K / Alyssa

400

This poetic story by Dr. Seuss focuses on an orange creature who warns of environmental issues.

The Lorax

500

Ms. Pod taught this student in Grade 6.

Chloe

500

Proofreading, changing, and finetuning your writing -- often with a partner. Most of you hate this.

Revision / Editing

500

Ms. Pod lives with this person (relation).

Her sister, Ava.

500

The act of convincing someone of an argument through logic, reasoning, and evidence, and the focus of our final unit.

Persuasion

500

On a random Friday when Ms. Pod didn't want to do any work, we watched this Disney film after walking to Circle K.

Frozen (short film - Olaf's Frozen Adventure)