Vocabulary
A word that means something positive or an an advantage gained from something.
What is a benefit
What is a Subheader
The body part that supports the corn plant
The Stem
The paragraph in an informational essay where good authors restate their main ideas in a new interesting way.
What is a conclusion
What are The Articles of Confederation
_________ means to prepare prepare the soil and to grow something.
What is cultivate
The term for what a text is mostly about.
What is Central/Main idea
The name of the Native American farming strategy that involved planting corns, bean, and squash together to maintain healthy soil and support growth.
What is The Three Sisters
What we call words that are used to link words, ideas, and clauses.
The name of the document that detailed how the Northwest Territory was to be used and how new states could be formed
What is The North West Ordinance
What are the favorable traits of hybrid corn.
What is it produces more seeds and is more resistant to disease and pests.
The first step that you should take when determining the central idea of a text.
What is look at the title, text features, and images (preview the text)
The crop that is commonly rotated with corn to restore nitrogen to the soil
What is soy beans
The conjunction that is best used to link these sentences: "Hybrid corn produces more seeds. Hybrid corn is more resilient to pest."
What is "and"
What was the one branch of government established by the Articles of Confederation
What is the Legislative Branch
Create a sentence with the vocabulary word adaptable.
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What are some of the words authors often use when writing persuasively
must, should, need (etc.)
The part of the corn plant that releases pollen.
What is the tassel
What good authors do in a body paragraph in an informational essay.
The Articles of Confederation were designed to have a ___ National government, in favor of giving the states more power.
What is weak
Create a sentence with the vocabulary term mutually beneficial.
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When writing persuasively this is how authors use objective and subjective statements.
What is authors use objective facts to support their subjective beliefs.
Modern industrial corn farms use this to return nutrients to the soil without using crop rotation.
What is Fertilizer
What is the best conjunction for linking the following sentences: " Modern industrial farming practices allow us to produce more and cost less. Modern industrial farming practices also have a variety of negative environmental impacts.
What is but
The name of the period in American History immediately after the Revolutionary War during which the 13 colonies began incorporating land won from England into new States west of the
Appalachian mountains.
What is Expansion