Writing
What are the three types of paragraphs in an essay?
Introduction, body, and conclusion.
What are the two main types of Point of View? (POV)
1st person and 3rd person.
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What happened in America between April 1861 and April 1865?
The Civil War.
The moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What are you attempting to do in an expository essay?
Explain something.
On a plot diagram, this is the part at the top of the point. It is often the most exciting part of a story.
The climax.
an angle that is smaller than 90 degrees is called what?
An acute angle.
What ended in 1945 after the dropping of the atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
World War II
What is the 3rd planet from the Sun?
Earth.
What are you attempting to do in an argumentative essay?
Convince your reader that your claim is correct.
What information is included in the exposition?
Characters and setting.
How many degrees is a circle?
360 degrees.
People from what country made up most of the immigrant labor on the Transcontinental Railroad?
China.
What is it called when the Sun causes water to become a gas and move up into the atomosphere?
Evaporation.
If you write a story about your own life, what is that called?
An autobiography.
What two countries does The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe take place in?
England and Narnia.
If a room is 30 feet by 10 feet, how many square feet is the room?
300 square feet.
How many presidents has the United States had?
46.
If you drop a baseball and a bowling ball from the exact same height at the exact same time, which would hit the ground first?
They would hit the ground at the same time.
Name three types of punctuation.
Period, comma, exclamation point, question mark, semi-colon, colon, etc.
The struggle or problem a character must overcome is called what?
The conflict.
James is painting a wall that is 10 feet by 18 feet. Each can of paint will cover 75 square feet. How many cans of paint does James need to buy to paint the wall completely?
3 cans of paint.
Who is on the $100 bill? Hint: This person was not a president.
Benjamin Franklin.
Roughly how many hours does it take the Earth to make one complete rotation?
24 hours.