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These bingo cards contain 28 terms from Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee's "Inherit the Wind" for 8th Grade literature classes. The word list includes famous quotes like "Progress has never been a bargain" and "It's the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down," alongside key themes and courtroom terminology. Use these cards for vocabulary and comprehension review during or after teaching the play.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Literature
Grade Level:
8th Grade
Updated March 2025

Word List

  • Evolution
  • Overruled!
  • Bible
  • "He that troubleth his own house shall Inherit the Wind"
  • "It is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
  • "An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral."
  • The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."
  • BRADY: The Bible satisfies me, it is enough. DRUMMOND: It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiousity.
  • Judgment by confusion. Think you can get away with it here?
  • "I wonder how it feels to be Almost-President-with a skull full of undelivered inauguration speeches."
  • "All shine and no substance!"
  • Objection!
  • "I can't imagine the world without Matthew Harrison Brady."
  • "A schoolteacher is a public servant; I think he should do what the law and the school board want him to."
  • "You see, I haven't really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think--so it seemed safer not to think at all."
  • "Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it."
  • "I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread."
  • "Darwin was wrong! Man's still an ape."
  • "How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?"
  • "Religion's supposed to comfort people, not frighten them to death!"
  • "When you lost the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight."
  • "I do not think about things I do not think about."
  • "It's the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down."
  • Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business."
  • "Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save--so that nothing is left but emptiness."
  • Sustained!
  • Direct Examination Questions
  • Cross Examination Questions

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