Vocabulary
Activities done outside normal classes
What are extracurricular activities?
This country has a more rigorous school system with more classes and a larger range of subjects
My husband Alex is from this village near Tetovo
What is Tearce?
High-school dance that involves nice, often expensive clothes
What is prom / homecoming?
What is a paleontologist?
An opinion or belief many people have in common
Surprise knowledge checks that students often find stressful
What are pop quizzes?
My favorite Macedonian word
Што е "правосмукалка"?
What is camp?
We see these "living dinosaurs" every day
What are birds?
What is debt?
Many of feel that this type of clothing reduces personal expression.
What are school uniforms?
A dish I love to eat at Dion
Што се крцкави тивици?
A step everyone must take to be admitted to college
What is taking exams / sitting for exams?
This Jolly Rancher flavor does not exist in nature
What is blue raspberry?
A card that deducts money from your checking account
These often result in one or two people doing most of the work
What are group projects?
My great-grandmother was from this European city
What is Paris?
Many US students pay for college this way
What is student loans / student debt?
Name two of our top concerns about bringing extinct animal species back to the present
What are: inability to survive in our climate / chemical environment, threat to human life, resource costs, turning invasive, humans making the same mistakes all over again?
What do the roots "extra" and "curricular" mean?
What are "outside of" and "study"?
In many US schools, kids need these to leave the classroom
What are hall passes?
I used to have two of these animals as pets
This event brings the petting zoo to the classroom
What is Science Alive (or a description)?
Name two ways scientists make their "best guesses" about how dinosaurs looked
What are:
skeletal similarities to living animals, carbon-14 dating, the layer of earth where fossil were found, rare imprints of skin or features, DNA or pigment structures (very rare)?