An example of a refugee or immigrant group frequently seen in your tutoring site.
(Answer may vary) e.g. What is Somali
100
Place in the United States with the highest percent of kids NOT proficient in reading and math.
What is our nation's capitol, Washington D.C.?
100
An example of a volunteer opportunity on/through campus dealing with homelessness and/or poverty mentioned in seminar.
(Answer[question?] may vary) What is Habitat for Humanity or People Serving People?
100
The respective colors of the Bloods and the Crips.
What are red and blue?
100
This classy individual is the classic host of Jeopardy!.
Who is Alex Trebek, of course?
200
The difference between a refugee and an immigrant.
What is political reasons/displacement (refugee) and a choice or preference (immigrant)?
200
While the United States was ranked 25th in math and 21st in science among only 30 developed nations, it ranked itself this.
What is first?
200
This is Habitat for Humanity U of M Chapter's motto: "Building homes, building _____, building friendships."
What is awareness?
200
The home of the Bloods and the Crips.
What is (East) Los Angeles?
200
This president said the line, "I am not a crook."
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
300
Minnesota has the highest population of this Asian ethnicity than any other place in the United States.
What is Hmong?
300
This is the definition of a dropout factory (with percent).
What is a high school with 60% or less of freshman class making it to senior year?
300
The reason we, as tutors, should be aware and informed of the issues and presence of homelessness and poverty.
What is the high likelihood of at least one of our students experiencing a very similar situation/applicability to our students and jobs as tutors, role models, and mentors.
300
The name of the featured film during our Gang Violence seminar.
What is "The Bloods & the Crips: Made in America?"
300
While humans have 7 vertebrae in their necks, giraffes have this many.
What is 7 as well?
400
The correct pronunciation of this word: ghoti.
What is "fish" (gh as in "laugh," o as in "women," and ti as in "lotion")
400
This percent of 8th graders in the United States cannot read at their grade level. (40; 50; 60; or 70)
What is 70%?
400
The amount (%) of homeless youth enrolled in school.
What is 89%.
400
"These kids are like a ____ out of orbit." was a quote from the film.
What is "planet?"
400
This animal's sound does not have an echo.
What is a duck's quack?
500
The circumstances under which so many Somali refugees arrive in Minnesota (and the U.S.), like Fatuma from Wellstone.
What are extremely violent situations in an anarchy-like country among several groups all fighting for power resulting in an extremely low standard of living, many critical injuries and deaths.
500
The differences among a 1) public school, 2) private school, and 3) charter school.
What is 1) publicly-funded, state-run school, 2) privately-funded privately-run school, and 3) publicly-funded school, run through its local charter?
500
These are the three criteria points for people to get a habitat house.
What are 1) a need, 2) willingness to work, and 3) ability to pay back?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
Whats the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar??
Descriptive Grammar:
An objective, nonjudgmental description of the grammatical constructions in a language.
No language is better than another
Prescriptive Grammar:
a set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language, usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain people think it should be used.
500
While a group of wolves is called a pack, owls a parliament, this is the name for a group of geese.