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Black History Month: dates
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Black History Month
100

The feeling a reader gets when reading a story

What is mood

100

How do complex characters develop?

What is they interact with other characters and advance the plot of the narrative

100

Which Disney film was released in 2009 and had the first Black Princess?

What is the Princess and the Frog

100

In 2018, ____ ______ became the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film, Dear Basketball. He was a credited writer for the project

Who is Kobe Bryant

100

Why is Black History Month in February?

What is the month of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

200

Before choosing an answer, its important to make sure that your response is ____

Backed with textual evidence from the passage

200

What is connotative and figurative language?

Connotative: What is emotions the reader attaches to words 

Figurative: What is the non literal meaning of words 

200

Interracial marriage in the United Sates was banned in ___ and not overturned until 1967

What is 1664

200

July 2000, ____ _____ becomes the first black woman to win the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957

Who is Venus Williams

200

Who is the first African American billionaire?

Who is Robert Johnson. He sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 2001

300

The opposite of literal is ___

What is Figurative

300

What does it mean to annotate?

What is to add notes or explanations to a text

300

in ___ an African American woman named Rosa Parks was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Parks refused and was arrested

What is 1955
300

John Baxter Taylor was the first African-American to win an ___ ____ ____

What is a Olympic gold medal

300

______ ______ was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman.

Who is Aretha Franklin

400

This is when you take what the writer says and translate it into your own words

What is Summarizing

400

What is a argument?

argument: What is the point the author is trying to get across to the reader 


400

Barack Obama became the 44th president in ____

What is 2008

400

Simone Biles won ___ gold medals, including the individual all-around and team titles, at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

What is 4

400

 Which 2 countries celebrate Black History Month in October?

What is the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

500

The authors attitude toward his or her subject is called the ___

What is tone

500

What are the informational text structures?

  • Description
  • Sequence
  • Problem and Solution
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Cause and Effect
500

In _____ ______, Kamala Harris became the first woman and first woman of color to become vice president of the United States

What is January 2021

500

Jackie Robinson made his debut with the ______ ______on April 15, 1947, and broke the color barrier for African Americans in baseball.

What is the Brooklyn Dodgers

500

_____ ____ was the first African American to win an Academy award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball

Who is Halle Berry