The Amendments
What is the Second Amendment
The students packed their notebooks, pencils, folders, and calculators before class.
What is a Simple Sentence?
A student wonders whether drinking caffeine before studying helps people remember more vocabulary words.
What is asking a question?
Usually given at the end of a statement
What is a period?
This is the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
Among other things, carries the Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Association
What is the First Amendment?
I studied for the test, and I felt prepared, but I still felt nervous.
What is a Compound Sentence?
A student makes a graph showing how quickly mold appeared on bread in different locations.
What is analyzing data?
It has a lot of jobs, but most often it is used to join two different things such as items in a list or phrases to a sentence or even two independent clauses. With some help from a conjunction.
What is a comma?
This type of government is ruled by citizens who vote directly or through elected representatives.
What is Democracy?
This Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure of property.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Because the dog barked, the cat ran away, and the bird flew into a tree.
What is a Compound-Complex Sentence?
A student notices that ice melts faster on the metal table than on the wooden desk.
What is making an observation?
What are Quotation Marks?
In math, this is the name for a number that can be written as a fraction, such as 3/4, 0.5, or -2. They aren't crazy.
What is a Rational Number?
Sometimes known as the "No Quartering Act", this Amendment prevents the military from occupying your home except in emergencies.
What is the Third Amendment?
Before sunrise, across the quiet field and through the thick morning fog, the hikers began their journey.
What is a Simple Sentence?
A student tests whether paper towels absorb more water than napkins by pouring the same amount of water on each one.
What is conducting an experiment?
Introduces Lists or explanations. Though it has a few lesser purposes.
What is a Colon?
In literature, this is the central message or lesson about life that a story communicates. Not necessarily a moral to the story, but certainly a main idea.
What is a Theme?
It states that the Amendments do not grant Rights, but merely lists them. Our Rights come from God.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
The old wooden clock on the wall, which had belonged to my grandfather, chimed softly at midnight.
What is a Complex Sentence?
A student, testing how effective bleach is, washes one stained shirt with bleach and another shirt without bleach. This is what the shirt without bleach is.
What is a Control?
It only does two things. First it replaces a comma if it would be too confusing, but usually it joins two different Independent clauses into a Compound Sentence.
What is a Semicolon?
This economic term describes a general increase in prices over time, which causes money to lose purchasing power. An ironic name considering it makes money have less value.
What is Inflation?