Dear Basketball
Dear Basketball is a ___________ by Kobe Bryant
Choose one: Story Poem Essay Speech
Poem
What is the genre of We wear the mask?
Poetry
Both the Beyonce Speech and the Obama Speech were given in which settings? ____________
School
The Little Rock Nine are know for _____
When they did that, the local government _________ and President Eisenhower had to send in the ____
being the first Black students in a White high school in Arkansas.
tried to stop them/worked against them
National Guard/Federal troops
What is theme?
It is the broader concept of the story
it is what the author is trying to say in the story
The key figurative language device used in the poem is _______
Choose one: Metaphor Idiom Personification Onomatopiea
Personification
What does the mask mask stand for?
metaphor
Beyonce' said we should all be ______________ for what we do in life and learn from our ______________ since they make us better and stronger.
responsible
mistakes
The local government __________ going to school
tried to stop them from
What is a central idea
It is the main point of the story
It is the focus of the story
it is the main idea of the story
In "Dear Basketball," _______________ (the writer) used ___________________ when it sounded like he was writing a break up letter to basketball.
Kobe Bryant
personification
Jabari Unmasked uses ___________ to integrate the poem of Paul Dunbar into her poem
intertextuality
When President Obama says you will need creativity and ingenuity he means ______________
being clever, original, innovative, inventive
The ___________ sent Federal troops to protect them
President
What is supporting evidence?
It is a quote or a citation taken from the text to support an answer.
The text was written at the ___________ of his career.
End
The last words of every line in Jabari Unmasked are taken from the first stanza of which poem?
We wear the mask
When Beyonce says you need to build your own table and invite people to come and sit she is using what figurative language device? ____________
metaphor
They had a _________ time in the school till they graduated
difficult
What is paraphrasing
it is when you say the words of another person using your own words
The text is written in ___________ verse
Free
What themes are in common between We wear the mask and Jabari unmasked? ___________
The theme of being judged through a mask of identity
The theme of prejudice and discrimination
The theme of hiding behind a mask to protect oneself
When we use R.A.C.E. in writing it means ___________
restate, answer, cite evidence, explain
At the end of the year they had made ___________ and were the ___________ students to graduate from the school
Friends
Black
What is plagiarism?
It is when you use the information from someone or from a book or article without citing the source as if it is your own.