Pineapples
Mrs. McKinney
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Online FID
Misc
100
The word pineapple was originally used to describe what we now call this.
What is a pine cone?
100
This character is Mrs. McKinney's profile picture on Google Drive.
Who is Snoopy?
100
Name all three of the Wiggin children (Ender's Game)
Who are Ender (Andrew), Peter, and Valentine?
100
These emoji avatars are generally overused, by Mrs. McKinney, in all aspects of the FID lessons, in order to help everyone feel like they are "seeing" Mrs. McKinney and thereby missing her less during online learning.
What are Bitmojis or Personal Emoji?
100
This is the generation that is two generations before Gen Z and never got an official name.
What is Gen X?
200
Since it was quite costly to buy a pineapple for your community event in Colonial America, you could do THIS instead, allowing you to showcase your hospitality to your guests at a more reasonable cost.
What is rent a pineapple?
200
When Mrs. McKinney was a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, this was her house.
What is Hufflepuff?
200
This book, which we read some of in Challenge class, is a small square shaped book and discusses the role of influence and collected ideas in an artist's creation process.
What is Steal Like An Artist, by Austin Kleon?
200
These were used, on almost a weekly basis, for everyone to share their thoughts and ideas on various subjects including what we are doing when we are bored during quarantine, advice for incoming 6th graders, and Haikus about book characters.
What are Padlets?
200
This is how long we would typically write (when Mrs. McKinney set the timer) for notebook responses in Challenge class
What is 3-5 minutes?
300
It is estimated that the pineapple would have cost approximately and equivalent of this monetary amount in Colonial America.
What is several thousand dollars?
300
This is the name of one of the "toys" on Mrs. McKinney's desk at school.
What is----wand, lava lamp, fidget spinner, pop figurine.....(or other accepted responses decided by Mrs. McKinney)
300
This is the name of the character in New Kid, by Jerry Craft, who is always making offensive comments that relate to people's race.
Who is Andy?
300
The four personalities, taken on by Mrs. McKinney's children, to deliver updated information related to book and fruit battles.
Who are Derek D Dishwasher, Patricia P Page, Terri Tutti Fruitti, and Barry Blackberries
300
Ancient nomenclature often used this fruit as a base for naming other fruits, including the peach and the potato.
What is an apple?
400
At the time the pineapple arrived in Europe, this commodity was scarce, helping to make the pineapple more valued.
What is sugar?
400
These are Mrs. McKinney's first and middle names
What are Carolyn and Marie?
400
These are the titles of two books/stories written by Ray Bradbury.
What are........(names of stories by Bradbury)
400
This is the product that Derek created that made him a millionaire.
What are medium-salted almonds?
400
The "f" in this image demonstrates use of this art element.
What is emphasis?
500
Succulent plants in the Poales order, like the cactus, and the pineapple, have thick skins and a waxy coating to reduce this from lessening its water supply.
What is evaporation?
500
These are the names of two of Mrs. McKinney's colleagues in the Challenge department at BCMS.
Who are Dr. Nichols, Dr. Ekert, Mr. Rybnik?
500
This is the name of the character who was quite short lived but made a huge impact on the future thoughts and actions of the protagonist, Guy Montag. The author himself says that this character represents his love of life.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
500
In a TED talk and Hidden Brain Podcast, both part of the FID the week of 5/4, John McWhorter (and you in our discussion) talked about whether or not THIS was "dumbing down" our communication abilities as humans.
What is texting?
500
In her TED Talk on The Danger of a Single Story, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states that "the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are _____(this)_________. They make one story become the only story."
What is incomplete?
600
This is believed to be the birthplace of the pineapple.
What is South America? (The Amazon rain forest)
600
These are the names of Mrs. McKinney's children and dog. If you can name at least one, you can get the points.
Wo are Cecelia, James, and George?
600
These are Hermione's and Ron's middle names (Harry Potter).
What are Jean and Bilius?
600
This is the name of the graphic novel, by George Takei, that we read as part of our FID during the week of May 18th as part of our awareness of Asian-Pacific American History Month.
What is They Called Us Enemy?
600
The names of three elements of art
What is: light, line, color, shape, space, texture?