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100
True or False: A BARREN landscape would most likely contain trees and a lake.
What is False?
100
In this story, animal characters come to life through the use of personification. They are able to communicate, and have personalities like those of a human.
What is Rikki Tikki Tavi?
100
When you combine clues from the text + what you already know to form an assumption, you are making a/an...
What is an inference?
100
This character is an evil serpent who gets killed in the bathroom in a fight with a mongoose.
Who is Nag?
100
Use the word "scapegoat" in a sentence.
The neighbors needed a scapegoat, so one by one, they began placing the blame on one another.
200
This word is the closest in meaning to the word GHASTLY: hungry, tired, terrible, intelligent
What is terrible?
200
In this story, alien beings attempt to conquer a planet by simply causing a power failure, in hopes that the humans will destroy themselves.
What is The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?
200
Using clues to guess what will happen next in the story is called making a
What is prediction?
200
This character shares his alien comic book plot with the adults in his neighborhood, thus making them jump to conclusions about there being an alien family among them.
Who is Tommy?
200
List the 4 spirits that visited Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Discuss what each was sent to "show" Scrooge.
Jacob Marley-the chains that would weigh him down for an eternity if he doesn't change his ways, Ghost of christmas past- child and young scrooge and the happiness he once felt, followed by the choices he made in life that made him the way he is today, ghost of christmas present-opens his eyes to the man he is today, and how others see him, ghost of christmas future-a life in which Scrooge is gone and no one cares, and the innocent Tiny Tim's illness has killed him. Scrooge feels remorse, sadness, guilt, and other feelings powerful enough to make him vow to change his ways forever.
300
True or False: An IMPROVISED speech is one that took a lot of planning.
What is False?
300
A Science Fiction story in which a boy wishes to explore life outside of the dome, despite his own fears about the toxic wasteland that is believed to exist outside.
What is The Last Dog?
300
List the four types of conflict. Provide an example of each.
Character VS Character, Character VS Nature, Character VS Society, Character VS Self. Examples will vary.
300
This character underwent a significant transformation after his attempted robbery of a woman's pocketbook resulted in her taking him into her home and surprising him with kindness.
Who is Roger?
300
Interpret the word "monsters" in The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. Also, briefly discuss the theme of the story.
Monsters could be used to describe the aliens responsible for the power failure on Maple Street, but a deeper and more likely meaning would be the humans that turn their backs on each other and eventually self-destruct (so to speak) all because of a little uncertainty and fear. The neighbors become what they were so afraid of all along-monsters.
400
Use the word DISEMBODIED in a sentence.
Answers will vary. The disembodied voice asked us to insert more coins into the parking meter.
400
In this memoir, a simple snowball game turns into an adventure when a group of friends take it too far.
What is An American Childhood?
400
Discuss the setting of Exploring the Titanic. (Include time, place.)
On an ocean passenger liner from Belfast, Ireland to New York City. On a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. April, 1912.
400
Describe Mrs. Louetta Bates Washington Jones in three words.
compassionate, kind, trusting, caring, defensive, strong, powerful, noble, etc...
400
Discuss the climax, or turning point in the memoir, An American Childhood.
The moment when the man finally caught up to the children was the climax. At this point, we weren't sure how he would react to their hitting his windshield. After such a long chase, we imagined all of the unspeakable possibilities. But, just as the narrator felt, we were left feeling disappointed by the man's actual response, "You stupid kids..."
500
Provide a synonym for the word "VALIANT."
brave, courageous, fearless, etc.
500
In this play, adapted by a Charles Dickens novel, a wealthy, but miserly old man is visited by four spirits sent to teach him a lesson in greed.
What is A Christmas Carol?
500
List the 5 stages of plot.
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
500
Assign 3 character traits to Rikki Tikki Tavi.
curious, aggressive, protective, fearless, vindictive, etc...
500
Discuss the class system on the Titanic. Describe the accommodations and explain the effects the class system had on passengers during the sinking of the Titanic.
1st class: very wealthy, large and very fancy accommodations, some of the first to get access to lifeboats. 2nd class: working class, nice new, clean and comfortable accommodations. 3rd class: poor, many immigrants, small, crowded, but clean and new accommodations located very low on the ship, took longer to get to safety and lifeboats due to location on board, and barriers blocking them from access to other levels of the ship