Mathletes
Comp & Grammar
How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Tricky Words
Fun CEA Facts
100
When dividing, how can you check your answer when having a remainder?
Multiply first and then add
100
Writers use ___________ to relate to one or more of the five senses.
Imagery
100
Who is the author of the essay?
Zora Neale Hurston
100
This word means 'crazy or confusing'
Helter-skelter
100
What is your spanish teacher's name?
Ms. Elena
200
Multiply: 1827 x570 --------
1,041,390
200
Writers use __________ to give inanimate objects human characteristics.
Personification
200
Where did the narrator live before she was 13?
Eatonville, Florida
200
What is a proscenium box?
Wall or balcony in a theater that sepearates the stage from the auditorium.
200
In what country was Conchita Espinosa Academy originally established?
Cuba (Havana)
300
When estimating products, you must round each number to its ____________ place value.
Highest
300
A complex sentence includes two types of clauses. Name the clauses.
Independent (main) and Dependent (subordinate)
300
What was the author's atittude toward the Black and white races before she "became colored"?
She appreciated the white race because they would allow her to perform for them and they were always nice to her. She didn't know that Blacks were considered inferior to whites.
300
What are "speak pieces"?
Oral recitations.
300
How old was Conchita when she founded the school?
19
400
When estimating sums and differences, you must round each number to the highest place value they have in ______________.
Common
400
To revise means to make changes in spelling or word choice?
Word choice
400
How would you describe the author's view toward being Black?
The author doesn't seem to be overy concerened with her color but instead with simply living her life and being herself regardless of the color of her skin.
400
Wordiness or extra notes
Circumlocutions
400
Which teacher read "The Pink Hat" and "I,Too" with you?
Mrs. Santalo
500
Do you have to add, subtract, multiply, or divide in the following word problem: There are 103 pages in Gaby's new book. She has read 35 pages. How many pages does she have left to read?
Subtract
500
Literary responses: When writing about a book, story, or poem, you must use the present, past, or future tense?
Present
500
Describe the author's "brown bag" theory?
All people are basically made up of the same "stuff" (contents)
500
Hated or resented
Deplored
500
Which coach is the school's DJ?
(Coach) DJ ROB!
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