Halloween History
Bonfires and costumes were part of the festival of Samhain, which was celebrated by what culture before modern Halloween?
Who are the Celts?
The term for a conversation between 2 characters
What is dialogue?
Setting the clock back is chiefly designed to have this benefit for societyl
What is saving energy?
Our McGraw Hill app
What is StudySync?
How appropriate! There are this many lunar cycles each year.
What are 12?
Americans spent almost $500 million on costumes for this member of the family
What are pets?
When 1 person speaks out loud
What is monologue?
This many countries use DST today
What is 70?
Writing during Outdoor Ed
What is completing your OE journals?
The moon is appropriately named to allow what agricultural activity to occur while it shines?
What is harvesting crops?
Soul train! No, not the old classic TV show, but the ancient practice called going-a-souling where people would get this for praying.
What are soul cakes?
The place to put the exclamation point in dialogue
What is inside the quotation marks?
The first whole countries to enact policies to use DST.
What is Austria and Germany?
The meaning of the letters EWP
What is extended writing project?
What is the autumn equinox?
It's a monster mash! This food-related crisis inadvertently led to the rise in Halloween traditions being imported into the U.S.
What is the Irish potato famine?
You need these 2 keyboard keys to show that another person is talking in a narrative.
2 correct responses:
What are the shift and quotation mark keys?
What are the enter and tab keys?
In the BCE, Roman clocks used various amounts of this to mirror the changing length of the days.
What is water?
Papers at the start of a course, about the management of the course
What is a syllabus?
During the August Moon (which is not really in August) is a great time to share these sweet treats
What are mooncakes?
Not usually associated with modern Halloween, this traditional practice might help you find your soul mate, not a spooky soul
What is matchmaking?
A rare time when you don't capitalize a quote
What is when the quote is interrupted by the dialogue tag?
Example: "We have to get ready," said Henry, "or we will be late for the meeting.
Thought a joke at the time, this father recommended that the French get up an hour earlier to save candle wax, similar to DST.
Who is Ben Franklin?
The final part of a book, that sums up the main part of the book.
What is an epilogue?
Not sure if there's a harvest moon? Going this way can help you determine if the moon is a harvest one or not.
What is north?