I Declare
a Patriot volunteer ready to fight at a minute's notice
What is a Minuteman?
curved symbols used in mathematical expressions and equations to group numbers or values together
What are parentheses?
author's purpose when the author wants readers to think or act in a certain way
What is Persuade?
part of speech that is an action or a link
What is a verb?
this day is named after the Sun
What is Sunday?
the name of the pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776
What is Common Sense?
this tells you which calculations to do before others
PEMDAS
What is the Order of Operations?
the author's purpose when the author wants to share information about a topic
What is Inform?
What is a quotient?
Named after the Moon
What is Monday?
name of the document that announced the colonies wanted to break away from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
a mathematical phrase that contains numbers and at least one operation
What is a numerical expression?
What is entertain?
the three states of matter
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
Named after the Germanic god Thor, equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter
What is Thursday?
the group of leaders who helped establish the new American nation
Who were the Founding Fathers?
this means doing the calculations to find the value of an expression
What is evaluate?
an expression that means something different from the meanings of its individual words
What is an idiom?
the first president of the US
Who was George Washington?
Named after the Germanic god Woden (or Odin), equivalent to the Roman god Mercury.
What is Wednesday?
the name of the Founding Father who's signature on the Declaration of Independence became famously known as a signature by many people
Who was John Hancock?
the solution to the following expression:
2 + 3 x (15-7)
What is 26?
the term for words that characters say in a story that often appear in quotations
What is dialogue?
longest mountain range in the world
What is the Andes?
Named after the Germanic goddess Frigg (or Freya), equivalent to the Roman goddess Venus.
What is Friday?