Vocabulary I
The Mexican pastry that Carlos' mom shares with Cat's family
What is a concha?
Root meaning sound
What is aud?
Grouping information together to make it easier to remember
What is chunking?
The month that Cat and Maya's family moves to their new home
What is August?
The name of the dog in "The Last Dog"
What is Brog?
A word that means something can be heard
What is audible?
Root meaning earth
What is geo?
The number of pieces of information that we can easily remember
What is 5-7
The person Cat meets on her first day of school and where she meets that person
Who is Seo Young, in the girls' bathroom?
Two ways that the community in "The Last Dog" are different from ours
What are: live in sealed dome, no animals/plants, eat food pellets/fake burgers, don't have families, etc
large pipe that carries water
What is an aqueduct?
Word that uses the root for "earth" and the suffix meaning "person who studies"
What is geologist?
These are 2 strategies we can use to study math
What are: quiz self, teach someone else, correct mistakes in your work, practice problems from homework etc., make a practice test?
The illness that Maya has
What is cystic fibrosis?
Picture Jeopardy:
The coordinate for the point shown in the picture.
Make sure to use the format (____, ____)
What is ( -3, 7)?
What Maya makes to honor the memory of her grandmother
What is an ofrenda?
Another word for "pencil lead"
What is graphite?
The kind of memory that's more permanent
What is long-term memory?
What Carlos gives to Maya to hold during their first visit to the mission
What is a bottle of orange soda?
The answer to 5x + 4 = 44
What is x=8?
A group of written sentences about a specific topic
What is a paragraph?
Words and murals painted on the sides of buildings or on signs
What is graffiti?
When the best time to start studying for a test is.
What is every day (in other words, study/review a little each day)?
What Maya gives to Carlos' Uncle Jose that re-energizes him
What is air from her breathing tube?
Two reasons we wrote for why bunnies would make the best pet.
What are: they're social, easy to take care of, helpful to people (calming, comforting)?