places/ characters
vocabulary/ lit terms
Name that literary term
grammar
Wild Card
100

This main character likes to go around, hand out peanuts, and is kind. He lives in New York City.

Who is Mr. Johnson?

100

Is a genial person friendly or grouchy?

What is friendly?

100

This is the setting of "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts," by Shirley Jackson.

What is New York City?

100

Fragment, run-on, of sentence?


Since she went to school.

What is a fragment?

100

Name a theme from the story, "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts."

Mrs. Eichhorst will grade.

200

This is the name of the couple that Mr. Johnson set up.

Who are Mr. Adams and Ms. Kent?

200

This is the type of genre out story is classified in.

What is fiction?

200
On a piece of paper, or the board, write and label the plot chart.

exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

200

Fragment, run-on, or sentence?


Because she is a 9th grader, she is taking English 9.

What is a sentence?

200

These are the names of my two teachers in English 9.

Who is Mrs. Eichhorst and Mrs. Kubesh-Boyle?

300

Mr. Johnson watched a little boy while his mother was moving out of her apartment. Where were the little boy and his mother moving to?

What is Vermont?

300

When a person is upset and starts to cry, he may repress tears by ____________.

Mrs. Eichhorst will grade.

300

"The wind danced on the water," is an example of this lit term.

What is personification?

300
Fix the run-on.


Krista asked to go to the store, she wanted to buy some snacks for the party later.

Mrs. Eichhorst will correct.

300
East High School turns ________ years old this year!

What is 50!

400

This is what Mr. Johnson had for lunch?

What is a veal cutlet?

400
"The wind danced on the water" is this lit term.

What is personification?

400

In "The Cask of Amontillado," we know that Montresor is evil. However, Fortunado does not. What type of irony is this?

What is dramatic irony?

400

Which sentence is correct?

A. She wanted to live in Rochester, MN. Because she had heard good things about it.

B. She wanted to live in Rochester MN. She had heard good things about it.

What is "B?"

400

This state is located directly south of Arkansas.

What is Louisiana?

500

These are 3 things Mrs. Johnson did to others today just to be nasty.

What are:

-argued with a bus driver

-asked him why he wasn't in the army to embarrass him

-called to get him fired

-accused a lady of shoplifting

-sent 3 dogs to the pound

500

This is the climax of the story, "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts." 

What is when Mr. and Mrs. Johnson talk about switching places?

500

This is the type of irony we see at the end of "One Ordinary Day with Peanuts." 


Why?

What is situational irony?


This is because we were surprised that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson switched places each day. Like the others, we were surprised too!

500

State the words that should be capitalized in the following sentence.

i wanted to see the statue of liberty in nyc.

What is:


I, Statue, Liberty, NYC

500

Edgar Allan Poe was from this famous city. 

What is Baltimore, Maryland?