Poetry Analysis
What did the poetry analysis packet as you to do to the quote that you chose?
Rephrase/paraphrase/put it in your own words
What is the difference between a markup and a discount?
Markup = price increase, discount = price decrease
What is a suffragette?
A woman/person who fought for women's right to vote in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
What does climate change descibe?
A change in the average conditions
What has four legs but can't walk?
A table
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language
Synonym
How much is the Rhode Island sales tax on non-food items?
7%
Who were the two suffragists that we read short biographies about?
Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific region averaged over a long period of time.
This item is white (or colorful) when it is dirty.
A blackboard
This is a poem in which the first letters of each line combine to spell out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically (up and down).
$185 x 0.35 = $64.75
$185 - $64.75 = $120.25
What three main strategies did women use to win the right to vote?
Moral persuasion, a Constitutional amendment, and state by state and/or federal advocating.
What three things did you need to come up with in order to make your own science experiment? (Hint: this is about 50% of the scientific method)
Question(s) to answer
Materials
Hypothesis
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
Silence/quiet
Everyone read one of four poems in the poetry analysis packet this week. Choose one of the poems that you read and summarize what it was about.
Old Ironsides
The Blind Men and the Elephant
The New Colossus
Where I'm From
Old Ironsides: A strong boat in a storm
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Different perspectives of what the elephant was like (everyone is a little right and a little wrong)
The New Colossus: The history of the Statue of Liberty
Where I'm From: What the authors/narrators life was like growing up
You would like to purchase the following items:
Mattress for $1100
Bed frame for $200
Dresser for $350
Night table for $150
You have a budget of $1400 and one 50% off coupon that you can use on any one of the items above. Can you afford all of these items? If you can, which item did you use the 50% off coupon for and how much money will you have left over?
$1100 + $350 + $200 + $150 = $1800
50% off $1100 = $550
$1800 - $550 = $1250
You will have $150 leftover.
How many states had given white women the right to vote before the federal amendment was ratified? Why did the suffragettes decide to start fighting for the right to vote on a federal level instead of continue fighting for it state by state?
15 states; because it wasn't working fast enough and they wanted male legislators to know that this movement was not going to go away.
Global climate change refers to the average long-term changes over the entire earth. These include warming temperatures and changes in precipitation, as well as the effects of Earth's warming, such as:
Rising sea levels
Shrinking mountain glaciers
Ice melting at a faster rate than usual in Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic
Changes in flower and plant blooming times
What starts with the letter P, ends with the letter E, and has thousands of letters in it?
Post office
What kinds of poems did you have the option of writing on Monday in your prompt packet? Name all 4.
Instant name poem, Where I'm From poem, Acrostic Poem, and 'I am' poem.
You want to rent a 2 bedroom apartment for $1800/month. You make $37,000/year BEFORE taxes are taken out. 25% of $37,000 will come out in taxes. How much do you make every year after taxes are taken out? How much do you make every month? Will you be able to afford your $1800/month apartment? If so, how much will you have leftover for food, utilities, and entertainment?
$37,000 x 0.25 = $9,250
$37,000 - $9,250 = $27,750
$27,750 / 12 months = $2312.5/month
Yes, you can afford $1800/month apartment
$2312.5 - $1800 = $512.5 leftover
What amendment was ratified that allowed African American men to vote but did not include women? When was the amendment that allowed white women the right to vote in the US ratified? What number amendment was it?
14th amendment
1920
19th amendment
What are the 7 steps of the scientific method?
Question, research, equipment, hypothesis, method, results, and conclusion.
How can you write 1000 with 8s?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8