Things You Should Have Learned In ELA
Only two words in English use the suffix "-gry": "angry" and this other word often associated with feeling angry.
What is "hungry"?
If you wrote out all of the numbers as words starting with one, you would not need to use this letter until you got to a ten digit long number.
What is B?
The Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing are notable for having been translated into Klingon, a fictional race of aliens commonly appearing in this science fiction TV and film franchise.
What is Star Trek?
Perhaps a stereotype, students in this grade who take an AP test are the most likely to forget to bring a necessary item on the day of the test.
What are freshmen/9th graders?
Pima Community College's first year of classes were held, in addition to other locations, in this type of building at the Tucson airport.
What is a hangar?
While "paraskevidekatriaphobia" is a fear of the date Friday the 13th, "triskaidekaphobia" is just the fear of this.
What is 13/the number 13?
Quite ironically, the most mispronounced word in the English language is this word.
What is pronounce/pronounciation?
William Shakespeare wrote many of his plays and sonnets between 1592 and 1594, largely because all London theaters were closed to reduce the spread of this disease.
What is the bubonic plague/plague?
Of the five most commonly taken AP exams, four had to do with the U.S. culture or the English langauge, leaving only this subject in mathematics out of the pattern.
What is calculus?
One of Pima Community College's nine campuses is located on this air force base in Pima county.
What is Davis Monthan Air Force Base?
The word "alphabet" comes from these two letters at the start of the Greek alphabet.
What are alpha and beta?
People who operate these types of vehicles are required to use English when communicating as it is the legally required language to communicate in.
What are airplanes?
Charlotte Bronte made a pact with her close friends Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor to never do this in her life, a promise she broke at 38 not long after meeting Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls.
What is marrying/getting married?
In 2008, the AP tests' parent group, the College Board, announced that exams in French Literature, Italian Language and Culture, and this fittingly dead language once spoken by the Romans would no longer be administered (although many were later added back).
What is Latin?
Notable alumni of Pima Community College include Warren Faidley, a man who follows, photographs, and studies severe weather, also known by this two word term.
What is a storm chaser?
The word "checkmate" in Chess is translated from a Persian phrase literally meaning this person (or piece) is helpless.
What is a king?
Along with being the least used letter in the alphabet, this letter is the only letter which is not used in an US state abbreviation (for example, AZ for Arizona).
What is Q?
Due to being short-sighted, Charlotte Bronte had to give up playing this instrument as she became unable to read the sheet music propped in front of her.
What is the piano?
While the most commonly regretted item not brought to an AP exam was a snack, the second most regretted if forgotten item was this type of clothing.
What is a jacket?
Due in part to Pima Community College's classes and emphasis on practical education and technology, this three-letter computing corporation synonymous with Windows PCs moved a headquarters to Tucson.
What is IBM?
Only four words in English use the suffix "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and this word meaning "very great in amount, scale, or intensity; or, extremely good or impressive."
What is tremendous?
While the English language holds this status in 67 countries, it does not hold it in the United States.
What is an official language?
Who is Charles Dickens?
AP tests were a product of Americans' anxiety after World War II that their students were falling behind the learning and achievements of students in this rival superpower.
What is Russia?
Starting in 1983, PCC offered eight courses to students who could learn the material by watching it on this new form of television delivery.