NY State ELA Testing
What do you call a statement that requires evidence for something that needs to be provent?
What do you call one of the most influential traditions in American history that began in the rural South especially in the Mississippi Delta region told stories of hardship, survival, love, travel, injustice, and hope.
What is the Blues?
What do you call the countryside rather than an urban area.
Who are the two social media companies that lost a court case last week that will require each of them to pay millions of dollars to the plaintiffs?
Who are Meta and You Tube?
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that made segregation the law of the land that made "separate but equal" the legal jargon?
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
What do you call a statement that cannot be argued?
What is a fact?
What do you call the movement where millions of people left the South to escape poverty and segregation and to find jobs in northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
What do you call an extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor?
What is hyperbole?
Name two arguments used by the defense against the social media companies in this lawsuit?
Infinite scrolling, strained mental health, body dysmorphia, etc.
What do you call the segregation laws passed in many Southern states separated people by race in areas such as transportation, restaurants, schools, housing, hospitals, public parks, and libraries?
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
How many sessions is the NY State Grade 7 ELA Test?
What is two?
What do you call The policy or practice of unfairly separating people, often based on race.
What is segregation?
What do you call vivid descriptive language that appeals to the five senses?
What is imagery?
What ways that social media companies can use in order to give proper credit to content creators?
What is to include the time and date of each social media post; to make sure that the older posts come first, to fine creators who repost things without crediting prior creators?
Who is the author and what is the name of the story whose major thesis is that people can be forgiven for past wrongs because we all make mistakes? The setting for this story was in Harlem involving a young boy and an older woman.
Who is Langston Hughes and what is "Thank You Ma'am?
What is a direction comparison without using like or as?
What is a metaphor?
What is relating to to a city or densely populated metropolitan area.
What is urban?
What do you call a brief reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work?
What is allusion?
What do you call the type of writing that improves muscle memory and that was not taught anymore after the Common Core Standards were passed by former President Barack Obama? Some can also blame Covid and daily use of computers in the classroom and beyond?
What is cursive writing?
Which country in the world has banned social media use for kids under the age of 16?
Where is Australia?
What do you call giving non human qualities to non-human things?
What is personification?
Who broke broke racial and gender barriers in the music industry and was one of the highest paid entertainers of her era? Here major recordings include
Down Hearted Blues
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
St. Louis Blues (also in an early sound film)
Who is Bessie Smith?
What are words that imitate sounds?
What is onomatopoeia?
What places are considered phone free especially when it comes to night life?
Where are clubs?
What was the event in which people protested the British government due to no representation in Parliament and the taxation that was being felt by the colonists?
What is the Boston Tea Party?