Renaissance
What does the word Renaissance mean?
The word Renaissance means rebirth.
What 2 things are included in the setting?
Setting describes the time and place.
What is the word that means the answer to a division problem?
What is quotient?
What is another name for the greeting when writing a letter?
What is the salutation?
Which state has the longest coastline?
What is Alaska with a 6,640 long coastline, along the Pacific and Arctic oceans is more than all the other states combined!
The Renaissance was believed to have begun in which Italian city state?
What is Florence?
What term means the part of the story where the main problem is solved, loose ends are tied up, and the character's journey comes to a close?
What is resolution?
What does GCF stand for in math?
What is greatest common factor?
What is the closing of a letter called?
What is the valediction?
What state has an active Diamond Mine?
What is Arkansas? You can look for diamonds in their original form at Crater Diamonds State Park.
What was the first book made using Gutenberg's printing press?
It was the Gutenberg bible.
What is the message, moral or lesson of the story called?
What is theme?
What is the word that means the average of a series of numbers? mean, median or mode?
What is mean?
What is a statement of the main idea or central claim of an essay called?
What is a thesis statement?
Which state had the first newspaper?
Connecticut - the Hartford Courant began publishing in 1764.
This Italian artist did not consider himself to be a painter, having said painting the Sistene Chapel was 'torture,' who was he and what type of artist did he consider himself to be?
Who is Michelanglo and what is a sculptor?
Name the 4 types of conflict, begin each part with man vs.
What is
Man vs self
Man vs nature
Man vs man
Man vs society
In a Math equation, what is a symbol, usually a letter that stands for an unknown or changeable number?
What is a variable?
Where is the thesis located in a formal essay?
What is the last sentence of the first paragraph?
This state has the only royal palace in the country.
What is Hawaii? The palace is Lolani - the last residence of the Kingdom of Hawaii's rulers.
Which Renaissance man robbed graves and cut up corpses to see how muscles and bones worked?
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Describe the 3 points of view a story can be written in.
What is 1st person - you are in the story, it is told from your point of view
2nd person - the narrator directly addresses the audience.
3rd person - you are not in the story but are telling it from someone else's point of view
What is a prime number?
A prime number is a number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself.
What are the 5 main steps in the writing process? PDREP
What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing?
This is the only state whose official flower is not a flower. Name the state and "flower."
What is Maine, and its official flower is the pinecone.