Greek & Latin Prefixe
Sentence Structure
Citation Rules
Halloween
Spider-Man
100

The Greek prefix meaning "life" appears in words like biography and biology.

What is "Bio-"?

100

The subject in the statement "The tired teacher drank hot coffee."

Who is the teacher?

100

A reference that identifies and credits the original source of information, ideas, data, or exact quotations used in your work

What is a "citation"?

100

This orange, seasonal gourd is traditionally carved into a Jack-o'-lantern for Halloween.

What is a pumpkin?

100

In the main Marvel Universe, this high school student is the original secret identity of Spider-Man.

Who is Peter Parker?

200

The root word in "unbelievable".

What is "believe"?

200

The object found in the statement "Mr. Cline assigned a fifteen page essay to every student!"

Who is the student?

200

The original location of this statement "Hatshepsut ruled Egypt as a pharaoh for over twenty years (Paragraph 4)." 

What is paragraph 4?

200

Halloween traces its roots back to Samhain, an ancient festival celebrated by this group of people to mark the end of the harvest.

Who are the Celts (or Celtic people)?

200

Uncle Ben famously taught Peter Parker that "With great power comes" this.

What is "great responsibility"?

300

A prefix that means "under" or "below".

What is "sub-"?

300

The adjective and adverb found in the sentence "The spooky ghost glided silently through the dark room."

What is "spooky"/"dark" and "glided"?

300

This term describes taking an author's research or text evidence and rewording it completely into your own words.

What is paraphrasing?

300

The word Halloween comes from "All Hallows' Eve," where the old word "hallow" means this.

What is holy or sacred?

300

Hailing from Brooklyn, this hero takes up the mantle of Spider-Man with unique bio-electric "venom blast" powers.

Who is Miles Morales?

400
All affixes found in the word "unwavering".

What is "un-" and "-ing"?

400

Restate the following statement, adding ONE ADJECTIVE and ONE ADVERB:
"The dog barked at the mail carrier."

The [angry] dog barked [viciously] at the [frightened] mail carrier.

400

In the sentence According to the text, "Hatshepsut would be different." (paragraph 13). this specific punctuation mark belongs right after the parenthesis.

What is a period?

400

This folk-horror monster has appeared in many incarnations, including everything from a grotesque monster to a high school heartthrob to a hotel owner.

What is a vampire?

400

This green-skinned villain and arch-nemesis flies on a glider and throws pumpkin bombs.

Who is the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)?

500

The meaning of the Latin root word "aud" as found in audible, audio, and audience.

What is "to hear"?

500

Create a single complete sentence that includes a subject, an adjective, an action verb, a direct object, and an adverb.

Student Response

500

In the RACE strategy for writing text-dependent responses, the letter "C" stands for this key step.

What is Cite evidence (or Cite the text)?

500

This classic monster from folklore is said to transform from a human during a full moon.

What is a werewolf?

500
The names of three Spider-heroes

Peter Parker
Miles Morales
Miguel O'Hara
Gwen Stacy
Ezekial Sims
Ben Reilly
Peter Porker