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Newberry Winners

100

This book about a 12 year old boy Michael in 1999 Delaware, anxious about Y2K, who meets Ridge, a mysterious, carefree time traveler from the future, leading to an exploration of living in the present, friendship, first crushes, grief, and finding found family.

The First State of Being

200

A historial novel about enslaved siblings Homer and Ada, who escape a brutal plantation into the Great Dismal Swamp, finding a hidden community of formerly enslaved people called the name of this book.

Freewater

300

This book about Jordan Banks, art lover, and he'd love to be starting 7th grade at an art school, but his parents have a different idea. THey've enrolled him in Riverdale Academy Day School, an exclusive, mostly white private school where Jordan is one of the few students of color.

New Kid

Instruments/Music

100

This is the musical note with the longest value. It is worth four beats-twice as long as a half note. Give the name of this note with no stem and a hollow center.

Whole

200

this vocal exercise uses certain syllables to represent notes in a scale or melody. Some teachers use it to reinforce sight reading techniques to train musicians ears. What is this system that labels certain pitches do,re, and mi?

Solfege

300

This part of sheet music can sometimes have ledger lines drawn above or below it. Give the word for the five lines and four spaces upon which notes are drawn. 

Staff

Art

100

This element of art is either actual or implied. It might be smooth, rough, bumpy. which are element concerns how a work feels or looks like it would feel?

Texture

200

The French Cardinal who commissioned this sculpture wanted it to be, quote, "the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better." Carved from a single marble slab. Name this sculpture of Mary cradling Jesus dead body, created by Michelangelo.

Pieta (pee-ay-tah)

300

This type of art is the counterpart of persuasive, functional, and narrative art. It can commemorate an event or a person's life. Identify this art that can be used during a ritual or celebration.

Ceremonial

Math

100

This is a value in a data set. It is one of the measures of central tendency. What is the value or values in a data set that appear most frequently?

Mode

200

Sheryl's flower garden is shaped like an equilateral triangle. Each side of the garden is four units. What is the perimeter in units of the flower garden?

12

300

Every one of these angles is congruent. What angles measure 180 degrees?

Straight

Dance

100

This genre with a milder tempo and higher-pitched instruments than regular jazz achieved popularity at the end of great depression. Horns played melodic riffs against a backdrop of rhythm instruments, making music perfect for dancing. Benny Goodman was the so called King of what genre?

Swing

200

Ballet dancers use this basic movement to absorb shock and loosen muscles. It can cause the dancer's heels to rise off the floor or, if its a shallow move, let the heels remain on the floor. Give this french word for this knee bend.

Plie

300

This Native American dance originated as a ceremony to restore global harmony. A solo dancer begins with a single one of the title objects before adding more to represent animals, the seasons, wind, water, and humans. Identify this dance named for the circular objects the performer incorporates.

Hoop