Created by AIMEE DURAN
12 questions
9th Grade
ELA
This Grade 9 English worksheet builds knowledge of notable Black historical and cultural figures through 12 review questions: 10 multiple-choice items and 2 fill-in-the-blank prompts. Students identify people such as Katherine Johnson, Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Amanda Gorman, and Kehinde Wiley from clues about their achievements, activism, writing, poetry, art, and public influence. The worksheet also checks recall of specific book-club details, including who gives the boys a haircut and Needles’ condition. Designed for Black History Month review, an English lesson, or a book-club follow-up, this worksheet helps students connect names with defining contributions and retrieve details from class learning. The mix of selected-response and short-answer items provides a quick way to check recognition, spelling, and memory of key information. It is a free printable worksheet with a complete answer key for efficient classroom review and grading.
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WorksheetsAnswer KeyKatherine Johnson
Rosa Parks
James Baldwin
Kendrick Lamar
Black
Tourette's Syndrome
Michael Jordan
Amanda Gorman
Graffiti
Kehinde WIley
This Grade 9 English worksheet uses 10 multiple-choice questions and 2 fill-in-the-blank prompts to review Black historical and cultural figures alongside specific book-club details. Students match clues to figures such as Katherine Johnson, Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Amanda Gorman, and Kehinde Wiley, then recall answers such as Minty and Denzel Washington. The format builds retrieval, recognition, and accurate short-answer recall.
Use the worksheet after instruction as a retrieval activity: have students explain the clue that led them to each selected answer rather than guessing from the choices. Pause on the book-club items about Black giving the boys a haircut and Needles’ condition, asking students to connect each detail to the related discussion or reading. Finish with the two fill-in-the-blank items to check whether students can recall and spell answers without prompts.
Students may confuse Katherine Johnson with the other Katherines in the answer choices or mix up artists, writers, athletes, and performers whose names appear together. In the book-club section, they may misremember which character gives the boys a haircut or confuse Needles’ condition with another option. Watch the fill-in-the-blank responses especially for spelling errors in “Minty” and “Denzel Washington,” even when the student remembers the intended person.
On Wayground, assign the Black History & Book Club worksheet as a printable PDF or as a digital quiz. It includes a complete answer key for the 10 multiple-choice and 2 fill-in-the-blank items, and printable submissions can be graded by scanning student work with the Wayground for Teachers app. The printable format also gives schools an option for reducing screen time.
Use the worksheet’s Advanced Settings to adjust font spacing and font size so the figure-identification choices and book-club prompts are easier to read. You can also apply a dyslexia-friendly font or translate the worksheet into another language while keeping the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank format.
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