We have read two selections from this author - "The Talking Earth" from our textbook and the first novel.
Who is Jean Craighead George?
100
This fictional story is about a girl who uses her poetry writing to deal with the loss of her father and a friendship change.
What is Last Summer with Maizon
100
Home of the Pirates and the Steelers, but Joey did not visit either of these stadiums in this city.
What is Pittsburgh?
100
She had to overcome her insecurities and realized she could still retain her Navajo identity.
Who is Lynn
100
Giving human traits to inanimate objects or non-living things.
What is personification?
200
This author developed both a small remote controlled robot and a three-man submarine to explore a sunken ship.
Who is Robert D. Ballard
200
In this story each student was required to play one sport a year. The name of the story is also the name printed on their team t-shirts.
What is S.O.R. Losers?
200
These mountains were where his great-grandfather's land was located.
What are the Catskills?
200
This archeologist came to Egypt in 1890 and worked there for many years dreaming constantly of finding an undisturbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Who was Howard Carter?
200
This type of literary device helps the reader visualize each detail of color or action. These types of words were used in the poem "From Whitman."
What are sensory words?
300
This author successful author needed a summer tutor to keep from failing high school English, was a Newbery Honor Book winner, and goes by one name.
Who is Avi?
300
This poet not only has a poem in our anthology entitled, "The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be," but her name is also mentioned by Margaret in the story "Last Summer with Maizon."
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
300
In this city Sam had purchased flint and steel in a Chinese store.
What is New York?
300
This character researched algae in the movie, but in the novel only used that as a cover to avoid questions.
Who was Sam Gribbley?
300
This literary techniques uses like or as to compare unlike things as in this example from Gary Soto's "Seventh Grade": "Picking grapes was like living in Siberia, except hot and more boring."
What is a simile?
400
Brent Ashabranner, in his award winning book, explores the difficult choices Native Americans must make to find a place between two cultures: their own and that of white America.
What is "To Live in Two Worlds"?
400
In a short non-fiction section following the story "To Live in Two Worlds," we learn of Native American soldiers who used their language to help deliver secret codes during
World War II.
What were these soldiers called?
400
Name the story in which the plot evolves around a boy trying to impress a girl on the first day of school.
What is "Seventh Grade"?
400
This friend of Victor's practiced a scowl, copied from GQ models, to attract the girls.
Who is Michael?
400
This literary device was used occasionally in the poem,
"To You," when Langston Hughes used words at the end of lines like soul and whole, too and anew.
What is rhyme?
500
This author introduces us to a boy named Joey, who takes medication to keep him from getting too wired.
Who is Jack Gantos?
500
These were held in containers called canopic jars. They would magically be rejoined with the deceased in the afterlife.
What are their internal organs?
500
The setting for the very last part of the story
S.O.R. Losers.
What is the soccer field?
500
This robot helped Ballard explore inside the Titanic where the submarine Alvin could not.
What is Jason Jr. or J. J.?
500
This type of figure of speech talks about one thing as if it were another. Gary Soto used in the story "Seventh Grade": "A river of sweat ran down his palms."