US History Highlights
Who was the president during most of World War II?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What are the three branches of the U.S. government and what do they do?
Legislative - makes laws
Executive - enforces laws
Judicial - interprets laws
What is the central message of a story or what the story is mostly about?
Main idea
Name your 8 parts of speech!
noun, pronoun, adverb, verb, adjective, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What should your writing have at the beginning to hook in the reader?
Good, clear introduction
What war started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and was originally between Austria-Hungary and Serbia?
World War I
Highest executive branch position in our government at the federal level
President of the USA
What type of context clue gives you a word that means the same thing as a word you may not know in the sentence?
For instance: The cat is humongous! He's so large, he can't sit on the tree branch.
Synonym context clue
What types of verbs are these?
She had finished her homework before dinner.
He has visited the museum several times.
They will have graduated by next year.
These are all perfect verb tenses with helping words plus the verb
Past (had)
Present (has or have)
Future (will have)
Explain how the introduction and conclusion are similar?
Introduction starts out with the topic and the supporting details.
Conclusion summarizes the topic and the supporting details and wraps everything up.
What movement helped African Americans gain equal rights in the 1960s?
The Civil Rights movement
Highest court in our nation that is staffed with 9 judges called "justices" who help interpret constitutional laws.
Supreme Court
When reading a story, what tells us where and when the story is taking place?
The setting
What is "to the movies" in this sentence?
The group went to the movies.
Prepositional phrase
What is the purpose of the topic sentence?
A time when many people lost their jobs and money in the 1930s
The Great Depression
The group of about 500 people, some senators and some members of the House of Representatives, who make up the legislative branch of the federal government.
Congress
You read something and figure out what is happening even when the words don't tell you what is happening.
For example: Before going outside, the girl took off her coat once she opened the door.
Inferencing
Name two types of conjunctions.
Coordinating
Subordinating
What kinds of words - like "therefore," "although," "however," "first," "then," "next," - can make your writing flow better?
transition words
A leader who helped change unfair laws using nonviolence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What part of our Constitution gives us rights and tells us our responsibilities?
The Bill of Rights
1) The tacos tasted great today!
2) Tacos are made with several ingredients.
1 is an opinion
2 is a fact
high, low
inside, outside
empty, full
antonyms
Check for errors like spelling errors, punctuation and capitalization errors, and clean it up to make sure everything sounds clear.