Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Wildcard Questions
100

How many chapters does The Outsiders novel have?

Twelve.

100

Name me two types of poetry forms.

Free verse/form

sonnet

acrostic

limerick

haiku

ballads

villanelles

100

What film did we watch at the end of the unit?

Holes

100

What were our two themes studied in this unit?

Identity and Belonging

100

What is Miss Little's biggest grammar pet peeve?

Bonus 100 points if you can give an example.

Comma Splices

200

What year was The Outsiders published?

1967

200

Name all the main poems studied in Unit 2.

Heart to Heart

Valentine

Gifts

Sonnet 18

200

What film did we watch at the beginning of the unit?

Invictus

200

Name two short films we watched that were NOT ones for the assessment.

For the Birds

The Lost Thing

200

What do you call a word that is two words that are combined to form a single word?


Bonus 100 points if you can give me an example.

A portmanteau word.


brunch

smog

motel

300

Name the three characters you could do your 9.1 narrative task on.

Bonus 100 points if you get all their last names right too.

Johnny Cade

Cherry Valance

Darrel Curtis


300

What is a quatrain?

A stanza with four lines with alternating rhyming lines (e.g. ABAB).

300

Name at least three of the five 'notable teens' speeches that we looked at the beginning of this unit.

Greta Thunberg

Malala Yousafzai

Jack Andraka

Emma Gonzalez

Amika George

300

Name six types of camera shots.



Closeup

Mid Shot

Long Shot

Wide Shot

POV shot

Over the Shoulder shot

300

What is one of Miss Little's book recommendations in our class OneNote BookShare tab?

"That was Then, This is Now" by S.E. Hinton

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

"The Art of Taxidemy" by Sharon Kernot

"The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo

Shakespeare Sonnets

400

What does BARDS stand for?

Background

Action

Reflection

Dialogue

Setting

400

The word 'sonnet' comes from the Italian sonetto. What does it translate to? 

"a little sound or song."

400

When discussing tone in speeches, we watched a TED-ED video about procrastination. What were the three characters that appeared inside the mind of the procrastinator?

Rational Decision Maker

Instant Gratification Monkey

Panic Monster

400

What does metteur en scène mean?

The director of a play or film —literally, "one who puts on the stage".

 

400

What is the definition of this word?


Widdershins

(adverb) something is moving in a counterclockwise direction. Moving widdershins is considered unlucky.

Scottish-derived term 

500

Who is the poet of the following poem that Ponyboy recites in the novel?

'Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.'

Robert Frost

500

What poem did Miss Little share in the "Share a Poem" HW task?

Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

500

What percentage of the class chose a female advocate?

Roughly 60%.

500

Guess the film based on this short summary:


Don't be fooled by the pink.

Mean Girls

500

Miss Little has two plushies on her desk in the staff room. Can you guess what either of them are?


If you ask for a hint, the question loses 100 points.

A ghost called Boo Radley.

A fish called Emo Nemo.