Trimester I
Trimester II
Children's Book Opening Lines
Current Events
Reality TV
400
Author of the book Mein Kampf, this man would go on to lead Germany from 1933-1945.
Adolf Hitler
400
This is the Afrikaans term for racial segregation.
Apartheid
400
“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived 12 little girls, in two straight lines.”
Madeline
400
This lawyer and City Councilor became the first Asian American woman to be elected the may of Boston in late 2021.
Michelle Wu
400
The Bachelorette
800
Germany’s invasion of this country in September of 1939 officially launched World War II in Europe.
Poland
800
This man was elected South Africa’s first Black president in 1994.
Nelson Mandela
800
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house, all that cold, cold, wet day.”
The Cat in the Hat
800
In February, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games were held here.
Beijing
800
American Idol
1200
Before Nazism took hold in Germany, the country had a struggling democracy known by this name.
Weimar Republic
1200
Laws such as the Group Areas Act led to the creation of these informal settlements at the outskirts of major South African cities.
Townships
1200
“Once upon a time there was a pair of pants.”
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
1200
This author and comedian, who has a show on Comedy Central, was the host of the 2022 Grammy Awards.
Trevor Noah
1200
Hell's Kitchen
1600
First conceived in the late 1800s, this was the term used to describe the controversial theory that society could be racially improved through genetics and “planned breeding.”
Eugenics
1600
Known familiarly as “shot in the back day,” this deadly event in 1960 sparked a turning point in the South African struggle for civil rights.
Sharpeville Massacre
1600
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events
1600
Last week, these two European nations simultaneously applied for NATO membership.
Sweden and Finland
1600
Amazing Race
2000
The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of this empire, sparked the beginning of World War I.
Austria-Hungary
2000
Steve Biko founded this movement, which sought to improve Black South Africa from the inside out with a mental revolution.
Black Consciousness
2000
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
A Wrinkle in Time
2000
She was recently confirmed to become the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
2000
RuPaul's Drag Race