ELA: Grammar
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
What are the three diseases we read about in this book?
What are the great plague, cholera, and typhoid?
8 * 7 =
What is 56?
When we add a negative number to a negative number, we get a ____________ number.
What is negative?
This person is the leader of City Year at Mound STEM.
Who is Rachel?
The "action" word of a sentence.
What is a verb?
A disease that is localized and does not spread to other countries.
What is an epidemic?
Solve for x:
x + 3 = 10
What is x = 7?
When we multiply a negative number by a negative number, we get a _________ number.
What is positive?
This is Maria's favorite order from McDonald's.
What is a bacon, egg, and cheese McGriddle?
Words that represent/replace the subject of the sentence so that we don't have to keep repeating names.
What are pronouns?
A disease that spreads throughout the globe, not just one country.
What is a pandemic?
Solve for x:
2x - 4 = 12
What is x = 8?
This is a type of problem in math that we've worked with a lot recently when you solve for the unknown (solve for a variable).
What is a linear equation?
Because it's full of problems.
Words that combine different parts of the sentence. We remember the main seven words by using the acronym FANBOYS.
What are conjunctions?
This disease was spread via contaminated water. In particular, a baby's dirty diaper was disposed in the cesspool near the drinking water, spreading this disease to everyone who drank the water.
What is cholera?
Distribute:
3(2x + 4)
What is 6x + 12
When a number is right by the parentheses and we multiply the outside number by each term within the parentheses, from left to right.
What is distribuition?
What object gets more wet as it dries?
A towel?
Words that express the relation (usually physical location) between two or more nouns. We remember them by saying "anything you can do to a log."
What are prepositions?
This disease taught us the importance of washing our hands since the disease was spread through a cook who did not eliminate the germs from her hands.
What is typhoid?
Factor:
4x + 16
What is 4(x+4)
This is the opposite of distribution. It is when we remove the greatest common factor to simplify an expression with parentheses.
What is factoring?
What do you call an alligator in a vest?
An investigator?