Vocabulary
What is the definition of SUBTOTAL?
The total before adding in the final few
What is a suffix?
What is the subject of the following sentence: "Books are an important part of Sonia Sotomayor’s life."
Sonia Sotomayor
What is the last step in the writing process?
Publishing or sharing
True or false: Honey goes bad.
False, it never expires!
Define: Diagonal
Not a straight line, goes from one corner to another.
How are a base and root different
What does a sentence need in order to be complete?
-A predicate
-Proper grammar and punctuation
How many steps are in the writing process
5, but you should revise your writing twice so 6 if you include that.
What is the largest organ in the human body?
The skin!
What word means NOT good at sports, NOT active?
Unathletic
What is an example of a Not Family prefix?
In, un, non
What is a predicate?
The part of a sentence that contains the verb and provides information about the subject, telling what the subject is doing or what it is like
How many times should you revise a writing piece?
A minimum of 2 times
What color were the original carrots?
Purple! Up until 400 years ago, carrots were purple before slowly turning orange due to farming!
What word means visually striking, notably visual?
Spectacle
What does polysyllabic mean?
A word has many syllables.
"It was a hot day so Mr. Zeeb wanted ice cream to cool down. He bought mint chocolate chip ice cream"
What should a good story have?
Beginning, middle and end, characters, details, sequence of events, climax, sensory imagery, etc
How old was the oldest Goldfish when it died?
43 years old, in the U.K., a goldfish named Tish, the beloved pet of Hilda and Gordon Hand, died in 1999, making her the longest living goldfish, according to Guinness World Records. The Hand family got Tish in 1956, after their son Peter won the fish at a fair.
What does the word Sesquipedalian mean?
A word to describe long words
What does the root mob mean?
Move (example: mobile, automobile)
Fix the sentence: My friends and I went to the park we climbed the stairs and went down the slides then we went on the swings
-Add punctuation and split the run on sentence: My friends and I went to the park. We climbed the stairs, went down the slides and we went on the swings!
What is the abbreviation for the writing process?
R.A.C.E.S
Restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, explain reasoning, summarize.
How long does the average pineapple take to grow to a full size?
About 2 years