All About Ana
Ana's favorite snack.
What are gummies?
This poet wrote the earliest published poem we studied this semester.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
The first and last name of Janie's first husband.
Who is Logan Killicks?
This author served as a medic in the Civil War.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Explain what's wrong about the following sentence AND how to correct it:
The team plays good in decisive games.
Good is incorrect because it's an adjective and needs to be an adverb. Should be "the team plays well."
The state where Ana grew up.
Tennessee
The San Francisco fog may have been named after this poet.
Who is Carl Sandburg?
This is what Nanny calls her daughter/Janie's mother.
Who is Leafy?
This author wrote Between the World and Me.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Explain what's wrong about the following sentence AND how to correct it:
Its unfortunate that the cat did not eat all of it's food.
TWO things:
It's=contraction of it is; its=posssesive of "it"
It's unfortunate that the cat did not eat all of its food.
Ana got her master's degree from this university.
What is Penn State?
The name of the poetic form invented by Jericho Brown.
What is the duplex?
Hurston likely based the hurricane in her novel on the real-life 1928 storm that caused catastrophic flooding around this lake.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
This author and scholar coined the phrase "intersectionality."
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Explain what's incorrect about this sentence:
Both students' projects were displayed on the wall, they were truly impressive.
Comma splice!
The two languages that Ana speaks.
What are English and Portuguese?
The three records the speaker of "Theme for English B" likes as a Christmas present.
What are Bessie, bop, and Bach?
The year Their Eyes Were Watching God was originally published.
What is 1937?
The current poet laureate of California.
Who is Lee Herrick?
Explain what's wrong about the following sentence AND how to correct it:
Janie, the novels protagonist, is a Black women living in the 1930s.
TWO things: missing a possessive and a misspelling of the singular "woman."
Janie, the novel's protagonist, is a Black woman living in the 1930s.
The name of the cutest dog in the world.
What is Winnie?
The two lines that make up the entirety of "In a Station of the Metro"
What is, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough."
The final line of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
What is, "She called in her soul to come and see."
The current poet laureate of the United States.
Who is Ada Limón?
Explain what's incorrect about this sentence:
To see well, the lights in this room need to be adjusted.
There's a dangling modifier.