Candles, Cake
On Weddings
Dark Universe
The Great Gatsby
No Red Ink
100

Who is the narrator of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Author

100

Why does the author cry in the early part of the text?

The groom cried after talking about his mom dying from cancer.

100

When was the universe born?

13.8 billion years ago.

100

What color was Gatsby's Car?

Yellow

100

What does CER stand for?

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

200

Complete the sentence: I instantly had two responses...

One helpful, one not.

200

Name one of the rhetorical devices used in the text. Hint: It was a question on the worksheet

Irony, Repetition, Anaphora, Parallelism...

200

We live in a disk-shaped galaxy called...

The Milky Way

200

How many times did Gatsby swim in his pool?

Once.

200

Statistics, Anecdotes, Expert Quotes are all types of...

Evidence

300

Complete the sentence: I would have to break the bad news:

She knew nothing, really, about anything that mattered. Nothing at all. Not a clue.

300

What did her dad buy to try to cheer her up? 

An ice cream maker.

300

Why kind of writing is the Dark Universe? For instance, Argumentative...

Informational

300
According to Nick, what kind of people are Tom & Daisy?

Careless, selfish people, who "smash up people and things and then retreat into their money."



300

This connects the hook and thesis.

Bridge/Introduction

400

Why did the author write the passage?

To tell her daughter she could not give her advice, she has to learn it on her own.

400

Who is the woman in the blurry photograph?

Her dad's new wife, fiancé, girlfriend.

400

What is the main idea?

The universe is always changing and expanding.

400

What decade was the setting of The Great Gatsby?

1920s

400

You must restate the thesis in this paragraph.

Conclusion

500

Who is the author?

Anna Quindlen

500

Who is the author

Leslie Jamison

500

Who is the author

Neil deGrasse Tyson

500

Who is the author?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

500

How much did you hate No Red Ink?

a lot!