Stuff
Vocabulary
A Choice of Weapons
Vocabulary 2
Writing
Vocabulary 3
100
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution was supposed to end slavery. 
The 13th Amendment
100
Secret
Crypto-
100
The name of the author of A Choice of Weapons.
Gordon Parks
100
Book
Biblio-
100
Every sentence should begin with a _____________ letter.
Capital
100
Not
Non-
200
This movie reinvigorated the Klu Klux Klan.
Birth of a Nation
200
Earth
Geo-
200
The state Gordon Parks grew up in.
Kansas
200
Big
Macro-
200
Every sentence has to make ___________.
Sense
200
Small
Micro-
300
This is the number of people in U.S. prisons today.
120,000 1.2 million 1,200
1.2 million
300
Color
Chrom-
300
The city Gordon Parks moved to at age 16.
St. Paul
300
Poison
Tox-
300
I want to eat.
She is going to leave now.
They can't stand to pay for stuff.
The bold words are examples of:
Infinitives
300
Before
Pre-
400
The President at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
400
Measure
Meter-
400
Gordon Parks' sister's name.
Maggie Lee
400
Seven
Sept-
400
Name the three punctuation marks that can end a sentence.
Period, Exclamation Point, Question Mark
400
Touch
Tact-
500
The group of citizens who were not freed as a result of the 13th amendment.
Prisoners
500
Something done
Act-
500
The name of the type of writing that tells part of someone's life story.
Memoir (Autobiography would also be accepted).
500
Numb
Narc-
500
Words that tell where the subject of a sentence is, is going, was, or when something will happen.
Prepositional Phrase
500
Time
Temp-