10.RC.2.RF
10.RC.3.RF
10.RC.5.RL
10.W.2.S
10.W.13.R
100

This term refers to a universal idea or message that is developed throughout story.

Remember, your response should be in the form of a question.

What is a theme?

100

This term refers to information from an external source that supports your topic.

Remember that your answer should be in the form of a question.

What is evidence?

100

This term refers to characters with many character traits who may or may not change throughout the course of a text.

Remember, your answer must be in the form of a question.

What are complex characters?

100

This type of writing focuses on objectively using information from one or more sources.

Remember, your response must be in the form of a question.

What is informative writing?

100

This term refers to gathering information from a large collection of sources. 

Remember, your answer must be in the form of a question.

What is research?
200

This term refers to the general topic of a nonfiction text. It can be gathered by determining the topic, scope, and purpose of a passage.

What is central idea?

200

When incorporating text evidence, there are two ways to write it. You can quote the text directly, or you can use this. This term refers to writing out what evidence means in your own words, while still citing the original author.

What is paraphrasing?

200

This term refers to a character who does not change throughout the course of a story.

What is static?

200

This type of informative writing requires writers to explain the similarities and differences between two or more concepts.

What is compare and contrast?

200

This is the name of the most popular search engine in the world.

What is Google?

300

When writing out a theme statement, it is important that it is a full sentence, that it relates to the story, and ____.

Can it apply to multiple things?

300

This refers to the type of phrase used to introduce a quote.

What is an introductory phrase?

300

This term refers to a character with many character traits.

What is round?

300

This acronym explains the order of sentence in the introduction of an essay.

What is GST?

300

This refers to the text at the top of a Google Search that has been known to be repeatedly incorrect. It should not be trusted.

What is the AI overview?

400

While one can gather the theme or central idea of a passage at almost any time, each part of the text plays a part in creating the theme or central idea. 

What is developing?

400

When citing a source, this type of citation is used if the source is not named within the sentence. Give an example of this type of citation assuming that your source is Source 3.

Ensure that you include the names of any given punctuation in your answer.

What is (source 3)?

400

Throughout a story, a character goes from being selfish, mean, cruel, and a thief to being a philanthropist who cares for others and is kind. Name the two words that would be used to describe this complex character.

What is dynamic and round?

400

This is the name of the most important sentence in any essay, no matter the type.

What is a thesis statement?

400

This word refers to the term for a source that can be trusted. 

What is credible?

500

What is 10.RC.2.RF?

You do not need to answer this as a question.

Determine how a central idea and/or theme is developed over the course of a text, identifying which supporting details most contribute to the development of the central themes and/or ideas.

Team gets points if they get it 75%+ correct
500

What is 10.RC.3.RF?

Your answer does not need to be in the form of a question for this.

Cite text evidence that most strongly and thoroughly supports an analysis of what a text states, using background knowledge to justify inferences drawn from the text.

Team gets points if 75%+ correct.
500

What is 10.RC.5.RL?

Your answer does not need to be in the form of a question.

Describe how complex characters (e.g., static, dynamic, round) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, advance the plot, and/or develop the theme.

The team gets points if this is 50% + correct.
500

What is 10.W.2.S?

Your answer does not need to be in the form of a question.

Write to inform about a complex topic:

• Develop a topic with a clear preview of what is to follow.

• Organize ideas, concepts, and information, using major sections

• Select well-chosen facts, extended definitions, quotations, commentary, and examples, making connections and distinctions when appropriate.

• Maintain a cohesive informational structure and objective tone, clarifying the relationships among ideas, concepts, and information.

Teams can get points if they get 25% correct.

500

What is 10.W.13.R?

Conduct short and sustained research synthesizing information from multiple sources to answer a question or solve a problem, narrowing or broadening the inquiry when appropriate.

Teams can get points if this is answered 50% correctly.