Math
The average of a data set, found by adding all numbers together and then dividing the sum of the numbers by the number of numbers.
What is the mean?
This Social Studies teacher has no hair and is too loud in the hallway.
Who is Mr. Lindberg
A comparison that uses like or as
An opening statement (which is usually the first sentence) in an essay that attempts to grab the reader's attention so that they want to read on.
What is a hook or grabber?
What is the independent variable?
The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
What is a ratio?
This Math teacher played college basketball.
Who is Mrs. Maset?
A message or lesson about life that the author wants to share with readers. It is more than just the topic of a story.
What is a theme?
Also called linking words, connecting words, or transitional words, these are used to link together different ideas in writing.
What is a transition word or phrase?
These form when hot, molten rock crystallizes and solidifies. The melt originates deep within the Earth near active plate boundaries or hot spots, then rises toward the surface.
What is an igneous rock?
The total space taken up by a flat (2-D) surface or shape of an object.
What is area?
This ELA teacher has a doctorate and teaches 7th grade.
Who is Dr. DeCamp?
The literary perspective that offers all-knowing insight.
What is third person omniscient?
A genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner.
What is an argumentative essay?
A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.
What is a hurricane?
The space occupied within the boundaries of any three-dimensional solid.
What is volume?
This Science and Math teacher makes wonderful samosas.
Who is Ms. Sharma?
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Who is the protagonist?
A short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.
What is a thesis statement?
A dense organelle present in most eukaryotic cells, typically a single rounded structure bounded by a double membrane, containing the genetic material.
What is a nucleus?
The change in the order of two numbers in an addition or multiplication operation does not change the sum or the product.
What is the commutative property?
This ELA teacher has worked with all 3 grades at times this year and could also be an administrator.
Who is Ms. Botnick?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
This year was when humans first walked on the moon.
What is 1969?