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English Proficiency Review!
Figurative Language/Vocab
Unit 2 Geo!
Unit 3 Geo!
Rando
100
List ALL of the parts of an essay (if you can do it backwards, 2 merits will be awarded!)
What is INTRO (Opener/Hook, TAGS, SS, Thesis) MEAT or Monster MEAT (Claim, Evidence, Analysis, Transition) (*3), CONCLUSION (Restate evidence, restate thesis, theme, connect theme, closer)
100
What is foreshadowing? Give us a definition and think of an example in something you've read this year.
What is when an author hints at or alludes to something that will happen later in the plot (usually, we get to see this as the audience, but the character does not). Examples: The Lord of the Flies telling Simon that he will have some fun with him foreshadows Simon's death; Lady Macbeth washing her hands of the blood when she's sleep walking foreshadows her own death; many more (tutor's choice)
100
What happens when two lines are perpendicular? How many right angles do they form?
What is they intersect to form FOUR right angles!
100
What are skew lines?
What is lines that do not lie on the same plane and never intersect.
100
How many people live in Boston?
What is about 615,000 people.
200
List all of the books (and authors) that you have read in English II
What is Fences (August Wilson), Macbeth (William Shakespeare), The Odyssey (Homer), Night (Elie Wiezel), Lord of the Flies (William Golding), Black Boy (Richard Wright), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), Kindred (Octavia Butler), The Color of Water (James McBride)
200
What is imagery? What is one book you've read this year that makes good use of imagery?
What is imagery is when an author uses vivid, descriptive language so the reader can really get a good picture of what's going on in the scene. Examples: Black Boy, Night, Lord of the Flies
200
What are the FIVE triangle congruence shortcuts?
What is Side-Side-Side (SSS), Side-Angle-Side (SAS), Angle-Side-Angle (ASA), Angle-Angle-Side (AAS), Hypotenuse Leg. NOT SSA or AAA
200
This is how you find the sum of all interior angles of a polygon.
What is (n-2) * 180; n=the number of sides
200
This is the capitol of South Korea.
What is Seoul
300
Pick your favorite book and give us an excellent short summary.
What is let's hear your summary!
300
How does Chinua Achebe characterize Okonkwo? How is this ironic?
What is he is a strong, fearless, ruthless leader who does not want to be portrayed as his weak father. Okonkwo does turn out to be like her father in the end of Things Fall Apart because he cannot accept change and he kills himself.
300
Complete the following proof!
What is tutor's choice
300
List all of the properties you know about a parallelogram.
What is opposite angles are congruent; opposite sides are parallel; and the diagonals bisect each other.
300
Who did Carmelo Anthony play for before he joined the Knicks in 2011.
What is the Denver Nuggets.
400
What are you going to bring to your English Proficiency on WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 8AM SHARP?
What is yourself, lined paper, 2 pencils, water, a sweater if you get cold.
400
Brainstorm your own metaphor and simile!
What is metaphor=comparing two unlike things without like or as; simile=comparing two unlike things using like or as. Tutor's choice!
400
Come up with your own conjecture and then write the converse. Evaluate whether or not your converse is true.
What is let's hear it!
400
Domain and Range Question
What is tutor's choice.
400
The amount of money The Avengers has grossed to date.
What is $472,239,621
500
Brainstorm your thesis for the following prompt: Pick a character you have read in English II who struggles to face society's rules. How do they come to terms with their dilemma.
What is tutor's choice!
500
What is the difference between theme, motif, and symbol?
What is a theme is the central topic or lesson we are supposed to take away from a work of literature; a motif is a recurring element that helps us understand the theme and symbols in a story; a symbol is when an author uses an object to represent a larger idea.
500
List all of the ways that you can classify a triangle! Make sure to explain what each way means!
What is by sides (isosceles-2 sides congruent; scalene-no sides congruent; equilateral-all sides congruent) and angles (equiangular-all angles congruent; right-1 right angle; acute-3 acute angles; obtuse-1 obtuse angle)
500
Find the measure of the missing angle in the diagram drawn by your tutor.
What is tutor's choice.
500
Name two of the five top scoring Celtics in NBA history.
Who is John Havlicek, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Paul Pierce, or Bill Russell