How Well Do You Know Mr. Y and Ms. B?
What is track and field / cross country.
This vocabulary word means to set out on or begin something.
Example: A plane taking off
What is to embark?
A brain condition that gets worse with time, and is caused by repeated hits to the head.
What is CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)?
This is a method of gathering information, feedback, or opinions from a specific group of people, usually by asking a series of questions
What is a survey?
The continent where you can find kangaroos and koalas
What is Australia.
This is the name of the university Mr. Y attended.
What is UH Manoa?
This is a specific type of sentence that express situations that are uncertain, haven’t happened yet, or depend on something else happening.
What is conditional sentences?
This sport has the highest rate of concussions among its players.
What is girls soccer?
This is the number of hours of sleep teens should be getting each night.
What is 8-10?
This state was the last of the 50 states to join the U.S.
What is Hawaii?
This is the type of animal that Ms. B is petsitting for the summer.
What is cat?
This vocabulary word means "not likely."
What is improbable?
This program was founded by USA Football to teach youth football players about safe tackling.
What is Heads Up Football?
This type of figurative language is used to describe teens as zombies in the following article title: "Lack of sleep can turn teens into 'zombies'"
What is a metaphor?
This is the name of the fantasy kingdom where Anna and Elsa live in Frozen.
What is Arendelle?
This is Mr. Y's favorite hobby.
What is spearfishing?
This vocabulary word means "to praise or congratulate someone."
What is to commend?
This football team won the Super Bowl TWO years ago.
What is the Philadelphia Eagles?
This is the amount of money one county spent to push school start times back by an hour.
What is $5 million?
This is the country with the most World Cup championships.
What is Brazil?
This is the subject that Ms. B studied in college.
English and/or Government
This is a literary term that involves putting two different ideas close together to highlight a difference.
HINT: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy
What is juxtaposition?
Research has shown that playing team sports has several social and academic benefits. This is the percentage of student athletes that graduate high school.
What is 97%?
This is the name of the county in Virginia that pushed back school start times.
HINT: Ms. B went to middle school here!!!
What is Fairfax County Public Schools?
This is the number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?