Unit 1: Grammar and Paragraph Writing
In English, what is a period and where can a period be found?
What is a punctuation mark in English that expresses the end of a sentence and can be found that the end of a sentence?
What is a Main Idea
What is the author's message about the topic
Did a chicken once lived for 18 months without a head?
What is True - Mike the chicken's incredible feat was recorded back in the 1940s in the USA. He survived as his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact, ensuring just enough brain function remained for survival. In the majority of cases, a headless chicken dies in a matter of minutes.
What artist recently share a beef/disagreement with Drake?
Who is Kendrick Lemar
Name the 4 main Toronto sports teams?
What are the Raptors, Leafs, TFC and Argos
What is a compound sentence?
What is a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses?
What are the 2 reading stratigies we covered in this unit?
What are skimming (looking for the general idea) and Scanning (looking for specific details)
Do goldfish have a three-second memory?
What is False this is actually what people used to believe, but scientists now believe that goldfish have month-long memories.
This four nations hockey team recently won the four nations cup?
Who is Canada?
This team beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?
Who is the Philadelphia Eagles?
In English what is a Complement?
What is all sentences include a subject and a predicate?
If a character is described as "clenching their fists and avoiding eye contact," the reader can infer this emotion.
What is anger (or nervousness)?
The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliop
What is TRUE - the 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticize those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, possibly afraid of their own surname, who coined the term how we know it in 2000.
What games does Mr. Ferreira play at the begging of class to start the day in a fun way?
What is Wordle?
This four nations hockey team recently won the four nations cup?
Who is Canada?
What are the main parts if a paragraph? HINT there are 4
What is Hook, Topic Sentence, Body and Concluding Sentence?
When an author presents only one side of an argument without acknowledging the opposing view, they are showing this.
What is bias?
Does chewing gum takes seven years to digest?
What is False
This Famous Rapper was at the WWE event with the Rock and John Cena
Who is Travis Scott
This NBA player recently got traded by the Dallas Mavericks to the LA Lakers
Who is Luka Dončić?
What are the three things to think about when writing the body of a paragraph?
What is content, organization and flow?
What are the clues to identifying the Main Idea of a text? HINT there are 4
What are Title, pictures, topic sentence and the introduction of a paragraph.
Did Plants come before seeds?
What is TRUE - According to the fossil record, early plants resembled moss and reproduced with single-celled spores. Multicellular seeds didn’t evolve for another 150 million years
What is Donald Trump implementing on Canada that will increase the price of several products in our stores
What is Tariffs?
On March 1, 2025, WWE's Elimination Chamber event took place at this Toronto venue, marking WWE's return to the stadium since WrestleMania X8 in 2002.
What is Rogers Centre?