Speeches
Uprising
Short Stories
Authors
Vocabulary/Grammar
100
What is logos?

appealing to logic

100

What are Bella's children's names?

Yetta and Jane

100

What story is this quotation from, “They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girls who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth…”

"All in a Summer's Day"

100

Who wrote Uprising?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

100

What does pariah mean?

Outcast
200

What is ethos?

appealing to authority

200

Who is Harriet?

One of the girls Jane nannies for and the person who approaches Bella at the beginning/end of the novel.
200
Why does Martin's grandfather visit them?

He is about to die and he wants to give Martin his medicine bag.

200

Who wrote "All Summer in a Day"?

Ray Bradbury

200

What word means devilish?

diabolical

300

What is pathos?

Appealing to emotion

300

What is Jane's chauffeur's name?

Mr. Corrigan

300

What does Lizbeth find out right before she tears up Miss Lottie’s marigolds?

Her dad can't find a job and her family is struggling financially. 

300

Who wrote "Let America be America Again"?

Langston Hughes

300

What word mean annoying person?

gadfly

400

What is FDR's speech about?

the bombing of Pearl Harbor

400

Why, specifically, is Bella's last name Livingston?

She marries Rocco, who gets adopted by the Livingstons after the fire.

400

Explain the title, "All Summer in a Day."

The sun only shines on Jupiter 1 day every 7 years so they have to experience all of summer in one day.

400

Who wrote "Marigolds"?

Eugenia Collier

400

Which sentence is correct: a)  In the morning, I have to rush to get ready for school so that I am not late. b) In the morning, I have to rush to get ready for school, so that I am not late. c) In the morning I have to rush to get ready for school so that I am not late d) In the morning I have to rush to get ready for school, so that I am not late.

a

500

What is Reagan's speech about

The Challenger

500

Whom does Yetta die with?

Jacob

500

Who is Cheryl?

Martin's sister

500

Who wrote "The Medicine Bag"?

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

500

Identify the errors in this sentence: The 8th graders’ were finished with there final papers for the semester, they where relieved and ready for a brake.

5: possessive vs plural,  there vs their, comma splice, where vs were, break vs brake