Video Killed the Radio Star
Write of Passage
Writer's-Block Party
Getting Lit!
Sam Facts
100

The country, known for cuisines like onigiri and soba noodles, is where Garr Reynold's lived when he had a revelation about the necessity of image and storytelling when crafting a presentation 

What is Japan?

100

The standard page length of a traditional resume

What is 1? 

100

This greek philosopher founded the Academy of Athens - one of the first higher education institutions in the western world, and wrote our first fiction reading The Allegory of the Cave

Who is Plato?

100

In L. Frank Baum’s famous book, Dorothy follows this colorful road to find the Wizard

What is the yellow brick road?

100

Sam's hometown also known as America's Finest City 

What is San Diego?

200

The name of this viral cetacean mascot pitched to Green Peace that Reddit co-creator Alexis Ohanian had a hand in promoting 

Who is Mr. Splashy Pants AKA Splashy the whale

200

This is the process of creating texts that use a variety of modes or technologies to communicate with an audience

What is Multimodal Composition?

200

This author of The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action emphasized the power of speaking out against oppression.

Who is Audre Lorde?

200

Percy Jackson discovers he is the son of this Greek god of the sea

Who is Poseidon? 

200

The school where Sam finished undergrad. Go Bears!

What is UC Berkeley?

(but I went during COVID so does it actually even count??)

300

Adam Bank's first idea in his speech to the CCCC that explores how composition is a practice in [Blank], Flight, and Freedom. 

Also the preferred musical genre of artists James Brown and Bootsy Collins

What is Funk?

300

This writing format involves a citation and a 1-2 paragraph summary/explanation of a chosen text

What is an annotated bibliography?

300

This Chicane 2015 National Medal of the Arts Recipient has written works like The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, and the short story we read in class Eleven

Who is Sandra Cisneros?

300

The title character of this Roald Dahl book is a girl who loves reading and develops telekinetic powers.

What is Matilda?

300

2 of the 4 programs Sam is enrolled in at SFSU

What are Masters of English Composition, Masters of English Literature, Postsecondary reading teaching certificate, & College level writing instruction certificate?

400

The National Book Award winning author that told us "stories are our primary interprative tool" 

Whose first name is the same as the current British king and last name is the same as a corporation with the tagline 'a family company' 

Who is Charles Johnson?

400

This is a cultural unit of information (typically a funny image, video, or phrase) that is created online and modified as it spreads. It combines text and visuals to communicate an idea, joke, or commentary in a simple, relatable, shareable, and generative way.

What is a meme?

400

This bay-area born author of The Joy Luck Club explores themes of language, identity, and family in her essay Mother Tongue

Who is Amy Tan

400

This Shakespearean tragedy tells the story of a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father’s murder.

What is Hamlet?

400

Sam's Zodiac Sign (bonus 100 points if you get my moon and rising)

What is Capricorn Sun, Gemini Moon, and Taurus Rising? 

500

The last 3 words of Audre Lorde's 'A Litany for Survival' 

What is meant to survive?

500

The 4 tenets of Research Ethics

What are Honesty, Representation, Bias, and Transparency?

500

Paulo Freire wrote [this concept] wherein literacy is not just about decoding words, but instead about understanding and interpreting sociocultural reality

What is 'reading the world'?

500

This literary movement, made famous by authors like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, celebrated the Black culture of New York City in the 1920s

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

500

Sam's Best-Friend's Name

Tyler