Hamilton
The Reconstruction and Frederick Douglass
The 1920s and The Great Gatsby
Grammar
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100

Considered the supreme law of the land, ratified in 1788.

What is the Constitution?

100

The name of the Frederick Douglass speech we read and analyzed.

What is "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July"?

100

The name of the town where Nick and Gatsby live.

What is West Egg?

100

The formal term for a sentence that can stand on its own.

What is an independent clause?

100

Our classroom number.

What is 4.2?

200

The man that shot Alexander Hamilton.

Who is Aaron Burr?

200

The amendment that abolished slavery.

What is the 13th amendment?

200

In the Great Gatsby, it represented the american dream in terms of wealth and a fresh start at life.

What is the Green Light?

200

It comes after a complete sentence and most often draws attention to a list.

What is a colon?

200

Mr. Hinkle's first name.

What is Eric?

300

The names of the Schuyler sisters.

What are Angelica, Peggy, and Eliza?

300

One of the rhetorical devices Sojourner Truth used in her "Aint I a Woman?" speech.

What is rhetorical question or example?

300

The full name of Myrtle's husband.

What is George Wilson?

300

A punctuation mark that is "kind of like a period".

What is a semi-colon?

300

The fun fact/talent Ms. Skordilis shared with you all at the beginning of the school year.

What is beat boxing?

400

The name of the 85 essays that Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote in order to promote the ratification of the Constitution.

The Federalist Papers

400

Lincoln's first proposal for mending "racial tension" after abolition.

What is sending formerly enslaved people to Panama?

400

The term used to describe the artistic, linguistic, and musical revolution within a specific New York neighborhood that soon swept the entire country.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

400

Which sentence is in active voice?

1. I started the zoom call.

2. The zoom call was started by me.

What is option 1?

400

Mr. McCoy and Ms. Skordilis's pets. (bonus points if you know the names)

Who is Marley the dog (Mr. McCoy) and Sadie the cat (Ms. Skordilis).

500

Songs that show Hamilton as a representation of the American dream.

What are "Alexander Hamilton", "My Shot", "Right Hand Man", "Yorktown", "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story", "The World Was Wide Enough"?

500

The president during the Reconstruction era.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

500

The year "The Great Gatsby" was published.

What is 1925?

500

The name of the kind of phrase that adds extra information about a subject.

ex. "Ms. Skordilis, who teaches at Intrinsic, is super super cool."

What is an appositive?

500

The name of the documentary show Mr. McCoy was in.

What is America to Me?