ELA The Lemonade War & Words
The book The Lemonade War has an outside narrator who tells us exactly what Evan or Jessie is thinking and feeling. What is this narrative point of view called?
What is third-person limited?
In 1787, American leaders met at a huge meeting in Philadelphia to write the master rules and laws for our brand-new government. What was this meeting called?
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Sound cannot travel through totally empty space. It has to travel through air, water, or ground in these regular, moving ripples.
What are waves?
What is a simpler fraction that means the exact same amount as 4/12?
What is 1/3?
How many total Sacraments did Jesus give to the Catholic Church to help us receive God's grace and life?
What is seven?
In The Lemonade War, Evan and Jessie are having a giant fight over who can sell the most lemonade. This big problem or battle between characters in a story is called the what?
What is the conflict?
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought a massive piece of land from France that completely doubled the size of the United States! What was this purchase called?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This science word measures how tall or strong a sound wave is, which tells our ears how loud or quiet a sound will be.
What is amplitude?
If you eat 3/8 of a pizza and your teammate eats 4/8 of the same pizza, how much pizza did you eat together?
What is 7/8?
This is the very first Sacrament we receive. It washes away Original Sin and welcomes us into God's big Church family.
What is Baptism?
Words like "sour," "sweet," "cold," and "juicy" describe a big cup of lemonade. What part of speech describes a noun?
What is an adjective?
Thomas Jefferson hired these two famous backyard explorers to map out the wild western lands all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This science word measures how fast a wave shakes or vibrates, which changes whether a sound has a high or low pitch.
What is frequency?
Change the top-heavy fraction 7/3 into a mixed number with a whole number and a fraction.
What is 2 and 1/3?
Catholics call this Sacrament the "source and summit" of our faith because the bread and wine truly become the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is the Holy Eucharist?
If Jessie counts her money "quickly" or "correctly," these words are this part of speech because they tell us how she did an action.
What is an adverb?
The sad and forced long walk where the US government made the Cherokee people leave their homes and march thousands of miles out west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is the thin, stretchy skin inside your ear that vibrates like a drumhead when sound waves hit it.
What is the eardrum (or tympanic membrane)?
How do you write the fraction 6/10 as a standard decimal number using a decimal point?
What is 0.6?
This healing Sacrament is when we sit with a priest, confess our bad choices, say we are sorry, and get God's forgiveness.
What is Penance (or Reconciliation / Confession)?
A chart, graph, or map found inside a nonfiction book that helps you see and understand information visually is called a text what?
What is a text feature?
This war broke out in 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, and it is sometimes nicknamed America's "second war for independence".
What is the War of 1812?
Sound needs a physical solid, liquid, or gas to travel through. Science calls this travel material a what?
What is a medium?
Look closely at these two decimals and tell me which one is bigger: 0.45 or 0.5?
What is 0.5 (or 0.50)?
This is the 40-day purple church season before Easter where we pray, fast, and give to the poor to get our hearts ready.
What is Lent?