Injustice & Inequality &
The American
Integrity
Dream
Intro
to Rhetoric
Transcendentalism
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Outliers
This “great American
thinker” wrote an
Inauguration Speech with
the famous line “…ask not
what your country can do
for you, ask what you can
do for your country.”
Category 1: $100: Q
John F. Kennedy
Category 1: $100: A
Groucho Marx wrote a letter to
Warner Bros. Studios to argue,
in a comical way, that his film
should be allowed to keep its
title. Humor is an example of
which rhetorical appeal?
**Category 1: $200: Q
Pathos
Category 1: $200: A
At the end of the rhetoric
unit, you guys looked at an
article written by sports
columnist, Rick Reilly. It
was called “Why I _____
My Job.”
Category 1: $300: Q
Love
Category 1: $300: A
In “The Conscientiousness
of Kidspeak,” an article
from The New Yorker,
Adam Gopnik made a
strong rhetorical argument
about what?
**Category 1: $400: Q
Teenage
language –
“like,” “um,”
and “you know,”
to be specific.
Category 1: $400: A
Remember this scene from
Clerks at the beginning of
the year? What is the
director’s name?
**Category 1: $500: Q
Kevin Smith
Category 1: $500: A
This is the book that you
read about Chris
McCandless – a teenager
who got rid of his
possessions in search of a
more fulfilling life.
Category 2: $100: Q
Into the Wild
Category 2: $100: A
The author of Into the
Wild is a “great
American thinker”
named _________.
**Category 2: $200: Q
Jon Krakauer
Category 2: $200: A
The principles of
transcendentalism are
associated with
human beings’
increased connection
with ________.
**Category 2: $300: Q
Nature
Category 2: $300: A
This “great American thinker”
was one of the founders of the
transcendentalist movement and
lived without many possessions
in a town in MA for a time.
**Category 2: $400: Q
Henry David
Thoreau
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Grizzly Man is a documentary about
_____________, a man who went
into the Alaskan wilderness to study
and become one with grizzly bears.
**Category 2: $500: Q
Timothy
Treadwell
Category 2: $500: A
This is the play you
read about the Salem
Witch Trials.
Category 3: $100: Q
The Crucible
Category 3: $100: A
This film was a
response to Arthur
Miller’s play, and
focused on the struggles
of Terry Malloy.
Category 3: $200: Q
On the Waterfront
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Both of the works studied in
this unit were commentaries
on McCarthyism/The Red
Scare – a period in the
1950s when people were
accused of being ________.
Category 3: $300: Q
Communists
Category 3: $300: A
Who was the director of
On the Waterfront?
Category 3: $400: Q
Elia Kazan
Category 3: $400: A
What did Arthur Miller
think about “snitching”?
Was he for it or against it?
*Hint: Think John Proctor
Category 3: $500: Q
Against snitching
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Gran Torino is a film about
acceptance, inequality, and the
American Dream. Name a
specific scene that illustrates
any of these concepts.
Category 4: $100: Q
Several to choose
from! Ms. Gleba
will decide.
Category 4: $100: A
Who wrote The Great
Gatsby?
Category 4: $200: Q
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Category 4: $200: A
Who directed Gran
Torino?
Category 4: $300: Q
Clint Eastwood
Category 4: $300: Q
According to Fitzgerald,
was the American Dream
achievable through moral
means?
Category 4: $400: Q
No – Gatsby was a criminal,
Tom/Daisy inherited money
and were horrible people.
Arguably, none of these
characters even achieved the
dream.
Category 4: $400: A
What is the main evidence
of inequality shown in
The Great Gatsby?
Category 4: $500: Q
Difference
between social
classes. Valley of
Ashes v. The Eggs
Category 4: $500: A
Who wrote Outliers?
Category 5: $100: Q
Malcom
Gladwell
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What is the author’s
main argument about
success in Outliers?
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Success does not only
come from hard
work/being the best – a
variety of life factors
contribute.
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Gladwell writes a
chapter about
hockey players.
What is that
chapter’s main
idea?
Category 5: $300: Q
That when you
are born can
affect your level
of success.
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What is the main
idea behind the
chapter about
plane crashes?
Category 5: $400: Q
Culture and tradition
can affect how
successful a person is
in life.
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“Termites” were a group of
elite students involved in a
study that Gladwell wrote
about. What was interesting
about them?
Category 5: $500: Q
They had
extremely high
IQs, but weren’t
all successful in
life.
Category 5: $500: A