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100
What is the phrase to help remember units of measurement in the metric system?
King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk.
100
What did Mr. Whalen major in for his Bachelor's degree?
Journalism.
100
How does Obi-Wan Kenobi read?
LIKE A BOSS.
100
When writing an essay, what is the number of supporting reasons you should provide to support your claim?
3
100
This amendment guarantees and protects freedoms of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech.
The 1st Amendment.
200
Would the number of students in a classroom be discrete or continuous data?
Discrete - Can only take certain values (there cannot be a partial student).
200
In genetics, this is another word for the physical appearance of an individual.
Phenotype.
200
This strategy should not be used as a substitute for reading carefully. Use it to find specific topics within a text, then read that section carefully.
Purposeful Skim.
200
When is it ok to use the personal pronouns 'I' and 'you' in an essay?
Only for Personal Narrative Essays. Never for Persuasive, Compare/Contrast, or Research papers.
200
What did the 2nd Amendment do?
Guaranteed citizens and militias the right to bear arms.
300
When finding the median, what do you do if there are two numbers in the middle?
If there are two values in the middle, you find the mean of those two.
300
Draw a Punnett Square for a red flower (RR) being crossed with a white flower (rr). What are the resulting genotypes and phenotypes?
Geno = 4Rr; Pheno = 4 Red Flowers.
300
Try this for a question that asks you for the main idea of a passage.
Re-read the first and last sentences/paragraphs of the passage.
300
Name two of the three strategies we discussed that you can use to conclude an essay.
Stress the importance of your evidence/reasons; Make a call to action; Restate your thesis IN DIFFERENT WORDS.
300
This test strategy is helpful when attempting to narrow multiple choice answer options down.
Process of Elimination
400
A student had taken six tests and received scores of 88, 73, 81, 83, 79, 94. Find the mean, median, mode, and range.
Mean: 83; Median: 82; Mode: N/A; Range: 21
400
What is the difference between homozygous pairs and heterozygous pairs of alleles?
Homozygous pairs are the same (ex. RR or rr); Heterozygous pairs are different (ex. Rr).
400
What sentences should you re-read to find context clues of a vocabulary word in a passage?
Re-read the sentence before the word is used, the sentence it is used in, and the sentence after it is used.
400
Rewrite the following sentence so that it is parallel: Mr. Whalen loves to spend his free time watching movies, playing video games, and he always reads books.
Mr. Whalen loves to spend his free time watching movies, playing video games, and reading books.
400
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery.
500
Debra is tracking how the distances she ran fluctuated over the last 10 weeks. To do so, she added the kilometers she ran each week. Help Debra figure out: What sort of graph would she use to illustrate the data? What were the mean, median, mode, and range (in kilometers) for the 10 weeks? Convert the mean, median, mode, and range into meters. Debra ran distances of 10km, 12km, 14km, 10km, 15km, 13km, 20km, 19km, 10km, 15km.
A Line Graph would best illustrate continuous data that fluctuates over time. Mean: 13.8(km), 13,800(m) Median: 13.5(km), 13,500(m) Mode: 10(km), 10,000(m) Range: 10(km) 10,000(m).
500
A heterozygous white dog is crossed with a homozygous black dog (white is recessive). Draw a Punnett Square and provide the genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring.
Geno = 2 BB, 2 Bb; Pheno = 4 Black dogs.
500
A 'Discussion Director' question has four rules. Name them:
Cannot be a yes/no; answer cannot be found explicitly in the text; there is more than one right answer; requires more than one sentence to answer.
500
For the following question, TTQA into a parallel Thesis of Three: Of all the subjects on the OGT, which is the most important, and why?
Of all the subjects on the OGT, reading is the most important because it stresses critical thinking, improves writing, and sparks the imagination.
500
This amendment gave Congress the power to impose individual federal income tax.
The 16th Amendment.
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