1. The $100,000 Pyramid
© Terri Street, 2000

2. Little Engine
That Could
Six of One,
Half a Dozen
of the Other
Where
There’s
a Will
Classical
Gas
Worth a
Thousand
Words
Type Casting

3. Classical Gas
Describe for your partner these classic American novels in 30 seconds or less.

4. Classical Gas Gone with the Wind To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn
Catcher in the Rye
The Scarlet Letter
The Red Badge of Courage
Charlotte’s Web
First Editions: Get your partner to name as many of these books from the Old Testament as possible in 30 seconds.

5. Worth a Thousand Words
Describe for your partner these children’s book illustrators in 30 seconds or less.

6. Worth a Thousand Words Maurice Sendak Trina Schart Hyman Mike Wimmer
Robert McCloskey
Chris Van Allsburg
Susan Jeffers
Jerry Pinkney

7. Type Casting
Describe for your partner these genres of literature in 30 seconds or less.

8. Type Casting Folk Tales Historical Fiction Poetry Biography Fantasy
Nonfiction
Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Dirty Dozen? Get your partner to name as many of these tribes of Israel as possible in 30 seconds.

9. Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
Describe for your partner these elements of Eisenberg and Berkowitz’s Big Six information skills in 30 seconds or less.

10. Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
Define the task
Organize the information
Select the best possible sources
Evaluate the product and process
Find information within sources
Extract information
Present the information
Get your partner to name as many of these fruits of the spirit as possible in 30 seconds.

11. Where There’s a Will
Describe for your partner these Shakespearean plays in 30 seconds or less.

12. Where There’s a Will Romeo and Juliet Hamlet King Lear Macbeth
As You Like It
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Tempest
Get your partner to name as many of these minor prophets as possible in 30 seconds.

13. Little Engine that Could
Describe for your partner these Internet search engines in 30 seconds or less.

14. Little Engine that Could
Metacrawler
Northern Light
Lycos
Alta Vista
Hot Bot
Dogpile
Ditto
Get your partner to name as many of these Biblical lovers as possible in 30 seconds.

15. Lightning Round
Name for your partner things that fit each category. You may not describe the category, only list items within it.
You have one minute.
For example, if the category were “Things that are red,” you might say, “Apple, fire engines, cherries, and Bozo the Clown’s hair,” but you may not say, “a primary color, not blue or yellow.”

16. $1,000,000 $50,000 $75,000 $10,000 $20,000 $35,000 Information Power
Standards
$1,000,000
Selection
Tools
Literary
Awards
$50,000
$75,000
Poems of
Robert Frost
Dewey
Decimal
System
Banned
Books
$10,000
$20,000
$35,000

17. You Win!!!