Nature vs. Nurutre
Height: nature, nurture, or a little bit of both?
Both
This form of punctuation is used to end a sentence, after initials, after abbreviations, and as a decimal point.
What is a period?
Used to show a break in a sentence, to emphasize certain words, or to show that a speaker has been interrupted.
What is a dash?
Printer's term for type that is slightly slanted.
What is italics?
What year was the attack on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers?
What was 2001?
Formed a terrorist group called Al Qaeda?
Osama bin Laden
Lactose Intolerance: nature, nurture, or a little bit of both?
Nature
Used to show omitted words or sentences and to indicate a pause in dialogue.
Tip: When typing or writing this punctuation mark, leave one space before, after, and between each period.
What is an ellipsis (three periods)?
Used to form plurals, contractions or that a letter or letters have been left out of a word, or to show possession.
What is an apostrophe?
You use this for all proper nouns and proper adjectives; names of people, words used as names, titles, historical events, abbreviations, organizations, titles, first words in a sentence, days and months, names of religions, nationalities, languages and official names.
What is capitalization?
What were at least two of the United States' response to 9/11?
National unity, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, racial profiling, hate crimes.
The countries in which Al Qaeda mainly operated in?
Name at least one.
Sudan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
Language spoken: nature, nurture, or a little bit of both?
Nurture
Used to keep words and ideas from running together. They tell the reader where to pause, which makes your writing easier to read.
Used between items in a series, dates and addresses, numbers, interruptions, dialogue, between two independent clauses, letter writing, separating adjectives, and setting off interjections, appositives, and introductory phrases and clauses.
What is a comma?
Used to enclose the exact words of the speaker, to show that words are used in a special way, and to punctuate titles.
What is a quotation mark?
These numbers are written as words; all others are usually written as numerals.
Numbers from one to nine.
What has been some of the lasting effects of 9/11?
7,000 troops have died in Afghanistan, 53,000 wounded, creation of Homeland Security/Patriot Act
Bush's "bullhorn address" kicked off a campaign against Al Qaeda called?
What is the War on Terror?
Crooked teeth: nature, nurture, or a little bit of both?
Nature or both
Used in place of a period; other times, it works like a comma.
Semicolon.
Used after a direct question and to show doubt about the correctness of something.
What is a question mark?
When beginning a sentence with a numbers you would use this form of a number.
Written number:
Fourteen AHS students left on the bus.
Reason for targeting the Twin Towers?
Represents America's economic power.
This new new terrorist group forms in Iraq and Syria and carries out worldwide attacks.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
This person would consider parenting and environment to be the MOST important factor in the development of the child.
"nurture purist"
Used to introduce a list, after a salutation, between numbers in time, as a formal introduction.
What is a colon?
Used to express strong feeling. It may be placed after a word, a phrase, or a sentence.
What is an exclamation point!
More than one person, place, thing or idea is called?
What is a noun?
Reason for targeting the Pentagon?
Represents the heart of U.S. Department of Defense.
This new agency was created in response to heightened national security?
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This person would consider one's genetics to be the MOST important factor in the development of the child.
"nature purist"
Used to divide a word at the end of a line, used to join or create new words.
What is a hyphen?
Used around words included in a sentence to add information or to help make an idea clearer.
What are parentheses?
Form the plurals of common nouns that end in y (with a consonant letter just before the y) by doing what?
Change the y to i and adding es.
What target was the plane United flight 93 headed to but crashed in a field in Pennsylvania?
White House or U.S. Capitol Bldg.
This act was put into place to give government more power to protect against future terrorists attacks.
What is the Patriot Act?