Grammar
Vocab/Spelling
Literature
Riddles
HIS
100
I am a person, place, or thing.
What is an adjective?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I steal other people's ideas, work and publications.
What is plagiarism?
100
I wrote The Call of the Wild. You don't like me.
Who is Jack London?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Give me food and I will live, give me water and i will die.
What is a fire?
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I teach first grade at HIS.
Who is Mrs. Shook?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I describe time and location.
What is a preposition?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I imitate natural sounds.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I'm the author of the Tell Tale Heart. My parents' death is a mystery. You don't want to forget me.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
You can catch me, but you can't throw me.
What is a cold?
200
I worked at HIS for about 6 months.
Who is Miss Cho?
300
I'm the thing that tells you something bout the subject.
What is a preposition?
300
I am easily seen.
What is noticeable?
300
I am a narrative about made-up events and characters.
What is a story?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it.
What is a coffin?
300
We are the class representatives for 6th grade.
Who are MinJae Kwon and Daniel Lim?
400
I include the main verb plus any helping, or auxiliary, verbs.
What are verb phrases?
400
I am a lung infection that can make people very sick.
What is pneumonia?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I am the series of events in a story, typically including the five stages of development. Can you identify and define what I am AND the five stages of development?
What is a plot? Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
400
Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will.
What is a tissue?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I teach at HIS and have two children who attend HIS.
Who is Mrs. Pai?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY I am what you call, a variety of sentences. List us.
What is a declarative sentence, interrogative sentence, imperative sentence and exclamatory sentence?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY You're not my friend, but I still know who you are.
What is an acquaintance?
500
I am a longer work of fiction that weaves together many different events, story-lines, and characters.
What is a novel?
500
I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter.
What is a hole?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Awesome!
Who is Mr. Pardales?