Vocabulary/Grammar
A definition or synonym for "sacred".
What is "holy"?
The components of argument writing.
What are: introduction, claim, argument with evidence, counter-argument with evidence, rebuttal, and conclusion?
Explain what the U.S. Constitution is.
What is the document that is the foundation of the U.S. government?
The people who lived in North America before the European settlers.
What are the indigenous people or Native Americans?
The 13th amendement guaranteed freedom to these people. The 14th amendment guaranteed citizenship to these people. The 15 amendment guaranteed voting rights to these people.
What are slaves, former slaves, and all people of color?
Describe what is wrong with this sentence: Some consumers look only online for coupons, they do not buy newspapers.
What is a comma splice? You need to add a connecting word, such as "and", or separate the two phrases into two sentences.
A definition of synonym.
What is a word with the same meaning?
Describe the Bill of Rights and what it protects.
What are the first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution, including the right to freedom of speech and religion; the right to protest; the right a trial by a jury?
Describe the American Revolution.
The war against English rule in 1776. The colonists won!
The wave of immigrants to the U.S. in the 1880's.
What are: European immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Italy?
What is trying to convince people to do something because "everyone else is doing it"?
A definition of paraphrase.
What is saying, or writing, it in your own words>?
The parts of the U.S. government.
What are the executive, judicial, and legislative branches?
Manifest Destiny
The government policy encouraging white settlers to move west and displace the Indians because it was their "God-given" right to do so.
World War I - 1914-1918
What is the war that was fought between the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) and the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the U.S.)? The war was sparked by colonial powers wanting to stop nationalist tendencies.
Fix this complex sentence: After we finish our work we will celebrate.
What is: After we finish our work, we will celebrate.
Describe what is wrong with this sentence: As I mentioned.
What is a sentence fragment?
Describe what each branch of government does.
What is the executive branch? Enforces laws.
What is the legislative branch? Makes the laws.
What is the judicial branch? Interprets the laws.
The Long Walk
The 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the government of the United States of America. Navajos were forced to walk from their land in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico.
Paraphrase this poem and say where it is from:
"Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What is: Send me your poor, downtrodden people. They will be accepted and given freedom and opportunities. This poem is written on the Statue of Liberty.
Give definitions or synonyms for these words:
thwart, comply, escalate, revelation
What are: stop, agree or do, heighten, surprise discovery?
Name 5 transition words.
What are: In addition, however, therefore, moreover, in conclusion
Describe two things you know about the Supreme Court.
What are 9 judges hired for life?
Civil War
The war between the North and the South fought from 1861-1865 over slavery. The North favored freedom for the slaves and the South wanted to keep slaves to pick cotton, a huge money-making crop for the Southern economy.
Describe how the Civil War is connected tot he Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil War was fought against slavery. Although the North won, prejudice against people of color persisted. The Civil Rights movement, 100 years later in the 1960's fought to eliminate segregation and discrimination based on race.