Semester 1
Semester 2
One Sentence Stories
Movie Adaptations
Chicago
100

The part of a story where we learn about the characters and setting.

What is the exposition?

100

The moral center of a story, or the lesson the reader learns.

What is the theme?
100

A boy's toys come to life and participate in wild adventures in this animated Pixar movie series.

What is Toy Story?

100

Released in 2012, this flagship film launched a billion dollar franchise, based on the works of comic book writer Stan Lee.

What is The Avengers?
100

The city is known for this "dish"... some people love it, others think it shouldn't be considered this type of food at all.

What is deep dish pizza?

200

Literary device that compares two things using the word "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

200

Jonah Hill, Taika Waititi, Drake, and Rashida Jones are all descendants of this ethnicity.

What is Judaism?

200

Jets and Sharks vie for their respective territories in the Bronx in this movie-musical.

What is West Side Story?

200

These movies were based on the dystopian trilogy written by Suzanne Collins.

What are the "Hunger Games"?

200

The approximate population of Chicago, the United States' third largest city.

What is three million?

300

The author of Fahrenheit 451.

Who is Ray Bradbury?

300

When the audience knows something the characters don't.

What is Dramatic Irony?

300

All a boy wants for Christmas is a Red Rider bee-bee gun, but all the adults in his life won't stop telling him "you'll shoot your eye out."

What is A Christmas Story?

300
A stop-motion animation film that tracks the moral development of a sly fox, adapted from Roald Dahl's children book of the same name.

What is The Fantastic Mr. Fox?

300

Home to major sports teams like the Cubs, Bears, and Bulls, this is the name of Chicago's WNBA team.

Who are the Sky?

400
Odysseus is gone from Ithaca for this many years (HINT: this includes his voyage AND the time he was trapped on Calypso's island).

What is twenty?

400

He errantly informs Romeo that Juliet has passed away, setting in motion the fatal events of Act V in Romeo & Juliet.

Who is Balthasar?

400

An anthology TV series that follows the extraordinary and supernatural, often dealing in gore, horror, thriller, and suspense.

What is "American Horror Story"?

400

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this adaptation of an American classic follows a rich bachelor's attempts to win back the heart of a long-lost love.

What is The Great Gatsby?

400

The name of the tallest building in the city.

What is the Sears (or Willis) Tower?

500

The antagonist's name in the story "The Most Dangerous Game."

Who is General Zaroff?

500

Elie Wiesel was sent to Auschwitz and this other concentration camp, as he tells it in his memoir Night.

What is Buchenwald?

500
A woman dies from sadness when her husband returns home alive, after she was previously happy upon receiving the news of his death.

What is "The Story of an Hour"?

500

He stars in the film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.

Who is Michael B. Jordan?

500

The city Mr. Davis will miss deeply, due in large part to the students who made it such a special place.

What is Fargo?