Vocabulary
A small change.
What is an adjustment?
This is when a school tells students they must wear the exact same thing every day. Usually it is bought from the school, or provided to students.
What is a uniform?
True or False: Students cannot receive homework at Whitcomb.
What is false?
One fun thing you can do in New England is to find your way out of this kind of Maize.
What is a corn maze?
This YouTuber has the most subscribers on the platform, with nearly 450 million.
Who is Mr. Beast?
To make changes to.
What is to modify?
This is when schools make rules about what students can wear, but still let them pick their own clothing items.
What is a dress code?
This is the number of times you can use the bathroom or get a drink of water in each class every week.
What is two?
New England farms make bank every fall selling customers on picking their own these for snacks and pies.
What are apples?
With over 2.7 billion monthly users, YouTube is the second-most visited site on the internet, behind only this website (which has owned YouTube since 2006).
What is Google?
To check or keep track of.
What is to monitor?
According to the text, these are some positive arguments for dress codes and uniforms.
What is: They contribute to more structured classrooms. No pressure for poorer students to keep up with the latest trend. Reduces peer pressure around clothing, etc.
Personal electronic devices are not allowed out during school hours at Whitcomb. Along with phones, Personal Electronic devices also include these items. (Just name one)
What are tablets, portable video game consoles, air pods, smart watches, non-Chromebook laptops?
The Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts is one of the oldest agricultural fairs in America, and often features the largest one of these plants in the world.
What is a pumpkin?
With nearly 15 billions views, this is the most watched video on YouTube.
What is "Baby Shark?"
Display. Attention. Experience with something.
What is exposure?
According to the text, what are some arguments against dress codes/uniforms?
What is: Students should be comfortable to learn, free to express themselves, need to wear things for religious reasons, etc?
If a teacher confiscates your phone, this is where it goes, and how you can get it back.
What is it goes to the AP office, and your parent/guardian must pick it up?
This New England state is the largest producer of maple syrup in the United States.
What is Vermont?
YouTube gets its name from the words "you," which refers to the person watching, and "tube," which refers to this other piece of entertainment technology.
What is a television?
The process of changing from one thing to another.
What is a transition?
Why do critics of uniforms and dress codes say they affect girls more than boys?
What is: they blame girls for boys being distracted (or something like that)?
These are an examples of "suspend-able offenses" that can get you suspended from Whitcomb (name 2).
1. Smoking or the possession of tobacco products at school or on the bus 2. Possession and/or consumption of alcoholic beverages 3. Profanity, discriminatory comments or obscenities directed to or at school personnel or fellow students 4. Vandalism 5. Stealing 6. Striking or deliberately causing harm to school personnel or a student(s) 7. Defiance, disrespect, or direct insubordination to school personnel 8. Behavior that encourages other students to act in any disruptive ways 9. *Bringing any type of weapon to school for any reason. Parents should discuss the content of MGL c. 71 section 37 H and H ½ with their children. 10. Instigating a fight or fighting 11. Bullying, harassing, discriminating, retaliating, or engaging in hate crimes
This pigment decreases in tree leaves during the fall, which causes them to change color.
What is chlorophyll?
With 491 million YouTube users, this country is the most active on YouTube.
What is India?