READING
This is the most important part of a reading passage, the main thing it is about, usually non-fiction text.
What is a main idea?
Always doing this makes a group of words a paragrph.
What is indent?
Only this branch AND person can veto a bill before it becomes a law.
What is the Executive branch and the President?
This letter combination "Dd" has a meaning for the first letter and a meaning for the last letter.
What is D is Dominant? (capital letter "D")
What is d is Recessive? (lower case "d")
Fast food chain that once used the slogan, "think outside the bun".
What is Burger King?
A conclusion about a reading passage that you draw form clues in the passage instead of from information that is directly stated.
What is an inference?
Most important part to writing an Argumentative Essay is to do this (what is the point of this kind of essay, in other words).
What is PROVE YOUR SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT!?
This is the necessary vote by Congress (what is the amount) to overturn a veto.
What is a 2/3 vote?
This form of heat transfer is when heat moves through solids.
What is conduction?
"You had me at hello" is from this movie.
What is Jerry Maguire?
This strategy is most important when deciding the correct answer from a reading passage that gives you multiple choice answers to pick from.
What is narrow it down to two, or get rid of the worst two answers.
This type of order in writing expresses idea in the TIME ORDER that they appear.
What is Chronological order?
If supply is very low for a product or good that is in high demand, this will happen to the price of the product/good.
What is increase?
Taking one vacation a year decreases the stress and anxiety someone is feeling.
Independent variable is.....
Dependent variable is.....
**Hint: Dependent Variable is what happens as a result of the Independent Variable.**
What is amount of stress and anxiety is Dependent Variable?
What is taking one vacation a year is Independent Variable?
This singer's real name is Robyn Fenty.
Who is Rhianna?
In a FICTION story:
The beginning of a story is called_____
The most exciting part of the story is called _____
The ending of the story is called _______
(Hint...it starts with the letter "R")
What is the INTRODUCTION?
What is the CLIMAX?
What is the RESOLUTION?
These words are used in writing essays to connect ideas, sentences, or paragraphs.
What are transition words?
The first U.S. Government was organized under the Articles of Confederation, but these were later revised because they were not "working". Articles of Confederation were replaced with a NEW PLAN that is the framework for our country today, called this...
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This force pushes against or resists motion. This force is different for different surfaces. For instance, it is easier for you to slide across a wood floor in your socks than to slide across the same floor in rubber soled tennis shoes.
What is friction?
John Hughes directed several iconic 80’s teen movies, including The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and ____ starring Molly Ringwald.
What is Sixteen Candles?
Type of figurative language that imitates or suggests the sound of the word itself...
(hint: buzzz, quack)
What is Onomatopoeia?
Reading your writing carefully to check for errors and to make sure the language you have chosen is appropriate is this..
It happens during or after the final drat phase of your writing.
What is proofreading?
President that was a benefit to people during WW II times and the stock market crash.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (FDR)
This form of Symbiosis among organisms is when one organism benefits and one organism is harmed.
Hint: Ruff ruff...
What is parasitism?
Think Christmas time...two main ingredients in eggnog.
What are raw eggs and milk?