WTFOH
This is Emoni's main talent and habit.
What is cooking?
This is the word for someone who fights against racism.
What is an "antiracist"?
As a four-year-old, the protagonist accidentally does this when left alone. His family then must move to Memphis.
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters" is an example of THIS rhetorical device in Macbeth.
What is a simile?
Mr. Scott's ex-wife worked this job.
What is a supermodel?
She is the author of With the Fire on High and a D.C. resident.
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
This is the name of the revolutionary group founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This man wrote Black Boy, his autobiography.
Who is Richard Wright?
"Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and, without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and, the screams that filled the air" is an example of THIS rhetorical device in Black Boy.
What is a metaphor?
(Or personification)
Name one of Mr. Scott's two favorite sports teams.
What are the Boston Red Sox and Brighton and Hove Albion?
He is Emoni's Culinary Arts teacher.
Who is Chef Ayden?
This orator (speech-giver) became very popular in Chicago at a very young age, founded the Rainbow Coalition, and was killed in an unannounced FBI raid in his apartment.
Who is Fred Hampton?
Part One of Black Boy, "Southern Nights," ends with the protagonist on a train heading to THIS city, the setting for Part Two.
What is Chicago?
Macbeth is an example of THIS, a theater trope where a protagonist whose arrogance becomes their downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
This is the name of the classroom's bravest soldier: Ms. Acosta's plant.
4th: This is how long Ms. Wallace drives every day (total time!) to teach you!
What is Emoni?
4th: 3-4 hours.
This is the show to which Malachi takes Emoni and Emma to impress Emoni.
What is Disney on Ice?
These are the TWO authors of Stamped.
Who are Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds?
"Just think, if everyone in the United States were to become, within a 10-year period, familiar with what it is like to be incarcerated, is there any question that the quality of our prisons would improve? It also follows that the skill and understanding of our juries might grow apace, as they would now know to what they were condemning those they condemn" is an example of THIS rhetorical appeal in Jesse Ball's "Op-Ed: Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years."
What is Logos?
This is the total number of years combined that Ms. Acosta and Mr. Scott have worked at E.L. Haynes.
4th: Ms. Wallace and Mr. Scott
What is three?
4th: What is eleven?
This is the city where Emoni has her cooking residency.
What is Sevilla, Spain?
This book, by a white woman in 1852, minimized slavery by claiming that we are all slaves to God. It was enormously successful.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This is the title of the protagonist's first published story.
What is "The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre"?
The title of this William Faulkner novel, about a group of siblings in the American South, takes its name from the following Macbeth lines: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / that struts and frets his hour upon the stage / and then is heard no more. It is a tale / told by an idiot, full of [...], / signifying nothing."
Bonus: This is the rhetorical device Faulkner uses by naming his book after this passage.
What is The Sound and the Fury?
Bonus: Allusion
Who is James Joyce?