Unit 1:
Telling Details
Unit 2:
Pivotal Words & Phrases
English I
Terms & Acroym"ese"
Writing & Grammar Skills
FHS Trivia
100

A story about the impact of a determined mother and a little girl's education.

What is "The First Day"?

100

This poem says "egg" without saying "egg."

What is "The Fight"?

100

A poem that is made from "re-purposed" words from another text.

What is a found poem?

100

A group of related words

What is a PHRASE?

100

The Farragut High School fight song.

What is "Anchors Aweigh"?

200

A "telling detail" is another way to say that good readers can make an _____________ based on details in a text.

What is Inference?

200

This is what nut graf means in journalism.

What is a "nutshell paragraph"?

200

William Wordsworth used "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility" to define this.

What is POETRY?

200

Topic Sentence : Paragraph :: _________ : Essay

What is THESIS?

200

The zip code for Farragut High School.

37934

300

This protagonist romanticizes war, even as he is being punished for his part in it.

Who is Peyton Fahrquhar?

300

This poem ends with just listen.

What is "Tamara's Opus"?

300

The type of writing that includes sentences and paragraphs.

What is PROSE?

300

The type of conjunction that makes a clause dependent on the main clause.

What is a SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION?

300

The subject that our principal, Dr. Bartlett, taught.

What is SOCIAL STUDIES?

400

______________, it's what's for dinner, but it could be your last meal. Just ask Officer Maloney.

What is lamb, as in "Lamb to the Slaughter"?

400

The first sentence in a news story is called_________.

What is the lede?

400

A ___________ is to poetry as a paragraph is to prose.

What is STANZA?

400

A group of related words with a subject and a predicate.

What is a CLAUSE?

400

The year that Farragut High School was founded.

What is 1904?

500

A text that moves the reader from scenario to scenario through the power of imagination.

What is "Bread" by Margaret Atwood?

500

The "S" in the acronym "SIFT"

What is symbol

500

OPTIC is used for analyzing these texts.

What are VISUAL TEXTS?

500

This punctuation is used to join two independent clauses WITHOUT adding any words.

What is a SEMICOLON?

500

Admiral Farragut's middle name.

What is Glasgow?