Class Contract
Current Events
SS 7th Grade
SS 8th Grade
Randos
100

Name the policy for cell phones.

What is no cell phones out (unless given permission by teacher)?

100

Describe what is a current event.

What is something that is recent in the news?

100

Name the fight for U.S. independence from Great Britain.

What was the American Revolution?

100

Name the side that won the U.S. Civil War.

What is the North?

100

Name one Disney movie.

What is the Lion King, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Finding Nemo, etc.?

200

Name the time you have to go to the bathroom.

What is two (2) minutes. 

200

This is part of the 5Ws represented by "H."

What is "how?"

200

Name one U.S. president from 1776 to 1865.

Who was George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William H. Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, or Abraham Lincoln?

200

Name the number of states in the U.S.

What are 50 states?

200

Name the U.S. state that has 24 hours of sun during the summer.

What is Alaska?

300

Name on rule about class participation.

What is one voice, one mic? Or step up, step back?

300

This is the word to describe the company or place where news is created.

What is a publisher?

300

Name the number of British colonies in North America.

What are the 13 colonies?

300

Name the movement that fought for equal rights during the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S.

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

300

The tallest animal in the world.

What is a giraffe?

400

Describe the rule about people's property.

What is do not touch other's property without permission.

400

Name the 5Ws.

What are who, what, where, when, and why?

400

Name one of the items exchanged in the Triangle Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is gold, sugar, coffee, enslaved people, diseases, etc?

400

Name one leader in the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

Who is Dr. MLK, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc.?

400

The company that has the slogan, "Mmmm... I'm lovin' it!"

What is McDonalds?

500

Daily Double! This is one of the Bronx Park P.R.I.D.E. values.

What is Presence, Reflection, Innovation, Determination, and Empathy?

500

Name one element of a newspaper.

What is the Name of the newspaper, Section, Headline, Drophead/Subtitle, Byline, Dateline, Lead, Body, Photo, or Caption?

500

Two causes of the U.S. Civil War.

1. What is slavery?

2. What is government control and economy?

500

Name one war that involved the U.S. in the 20th century.

What was World War I, World War II, Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraqi War, Afghan War, etc.?

500

The candies that are tart and shaped like humans.

What are Sour Patch Kids?

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