Describe Susan:
Susan stayed after school and assisted the teacher with cleaning the classroom.
What is begin helpful?
100
What kind of sentence is it:
Anna and Jim went to the dance after school.
What is a simple sentence?
100
It gives facts and information.
What is expository?
100
For thousands of years people told time by the sun in the daytime and by the stars at night. Later, mechanical devices for telling time were used, but clocks as we know them have been in use for only about a thousand years. Watches were not made until much later—about five hundred years ago. The first watches were large and clumsy, but watches now are often _____.
What is very small?
200
It compares 2 unlike things by saying one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
200
Describe Brian:
Brian practiced shooting baskets for 2 hours after school each day.
What is determined?
200
What sentence type is it?
Yesterday after school, Linda missed the bus.
What is a complex sentence?
200
Subject + Attitude
What is a thesis statement?
200
One person who screams or starts to run at a school fire may frighten others and make it harder for all to escape. Should this happen, it becomes extremely important for everyone else to _____________ .
What is remain calm?
300
The owl cried out with a lonely "Hoot, hoot," as it flew across the dark night sky.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
Describe Anna:
Anna write thank-you notes to everyone who attended her party last week.
What is thoughtful?
300
It was raining out and I forgot my umbrella.
What is a compound sentence?
300
Trying to convince someone think a certain way or the same way you do.
What is persuasive writing?
300
Good health is not the same thing as great physical strength. A very healthy person may be unable to carry even a small trunk for any distance. Though one may have perfect health, one may not have well-developed________.
What are muscles?
400
My love for you is like a red, red rose.
What is a metaphor?
400
Describe Jose:
Jose volunteers at the animal shelter every Saturday where he walks the dogs and clean out their cages.
What is caring/helpful?
400
My sister, my mom, my brother and I all went for a walk after dinner.
What is a simple sentence?
400
The opposite of expository writing. It has characters, setting and a plot.
What is narrative writing?
400
Rosa did not want to do her homework. She was a procrastinator. She found every excuse she could think of to not sit down and read her book and answer the questions the teacher has assigned.
What does procrastinator mean?
What is someone who puts off doing what they have to do or need to do?
500
He was so mad that smoke was coming out of his ears.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Describe Mr. Muller:
Mr. Muller always does cafeteria duty in the mornings before school and he is always standing at his door to make sure kids are safe during the day.
What is caring...dutiful...responsible....?
500
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are fanboys?
500
This is the one sentence in an expository essay where you can say what you think and use the personal pronoun, "I."
What is a personal commentary?
500
Richard has a plehtora of homework to do. That is because he waited untilt he last minute to get it all done.
What does plethora mean?