IANYPMD
The Downstairs Girl
Homophones
The Academic Essay
White Supremacist Justifications
100

The full name of the celebrity Juanga gets his nickname from.

Juan Gabriel

100

Old Gin's job (what and where)

stable groom at Payne mansion

100

___ bad because the party would've been a lot more fun with him there.

(Two, To, Too)

Too

100

The sentence that serves as the roadmap for your entire essay.

Thesis statement

100

Name of noble experiment spearheaded by Thaddeus Stevens and Radical Republicans after the Civil War

Reconstruction

200
Name of Olga's fetus if it had come to term as a boy.

Rafael 

200

Who Caroline was jealous of because Caroline wanted her mother's attention.

Noemi

200

Hey, ____ joke wasn't funny. It was mean.

(you're, your)

your

200

Typical number of body paragraphs in a standard academic essay.

Three 

200

Colors that symbolized good and evil for racist Europeans.

white = good

black = evil

300

Location where Julia and Connor first met.

Used bookstore in Chicago

300

Made Caroline have a terrible allergic reaction

Pepper

300

We should reach the _____ of the mountain by morning.

(peek, peak, pique)

peak

300

POVs that cannot be used in standard academic writing

1st and 2nd

300

Idea that claimed Civil War was just because it was in defense of states' rights.

The Lost Cause Narrative

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Word for hyper, often toxic masculinity in Latin America

Machismo

400

Billy Riggs' secret that could ruin his reputation and criminal business.

He's half-black

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Bread dough needs to be _________ thoroughly.


(needed, kneaded)

kneaded

400
Means to take evidence and/or specific examples to present/solidify your major arguments in body paragraphs

[Hint: word starts with an S]

Synthesis

400

One of the reasons why white European settlers went back on land contracts with Native Americans.

Divine providence (All part of God's plan), Natives were wasting the land; Natives were too stupid to understand the concept of owning land

500

One of Ama's maladaptive responses to trauma

Extreme overprotectiveness/constant watching and spying/deflecting or maintaining the status quo for Julia questions authority.

500

What Mrs. English calls Jo as one of the reasons for firing her.

Saucebox

500

The room was _____ because the furniture hadn't come in yet.

(bare, bear)

bare

500

Something you must not introduce in a conclusion paragraph.

New major arguments 

500

Massacre that was triggered in part due to false claims of African American insurrection in central Louisiana

Colfax