This word means to make someone determined to do something.
What is motivate?
100
This is the name of the hurricane that is currently hitting Florida.
What is hurricane Issac?
100
This is the text feature that gives us the name of an article or book etc..
What is the title?
100
This is the team that won the NBA championship this year.
What is the Miami Heat?
100
This is the mascot of Weeks Middle School.
What is the wildcat?
200
This means to picture something in your head.
What is visualize?
200
This person is going to be running against President Obama in the next election.
Who is Mitt Romney?
200
A type of print that is within the regular text but is darker and informs the reader of important words.
What is bold print?
200
This 2012 Olympic all around gold medalist trains at Chow's gym in West Des Moines, IA.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
200
This is the full name of Weeks Middle School.
What is Nathan Weeks Middle School?
300
These are parts of a non-fiction book that help you locate
and learn information.
What are text features?
300
This Congressman from Wisconsin was selected to run as vice president to Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential election
Who is Paul Ryan?
300
These are the slanted letter words intended to point out important words in a text.
What are italics?
300
This Des Moines Roosevelt graduate came up just shy of winning a medal in the hurdles at the Summer Olympics this year.
Who is Lolo Jones?
300
This is the number of students that attend Weeks Middle School.
What is 750 students. (Guess within 100 students to get the points)
400
This is what I use to grade your daily writing in my class. Hint-it has the elements of the "Weeks Paragraph" and how many points each is worth.
What is a Rubric?
400
This is the top selling movie in theaters right now.
What is The Expendables 2?
400
This is the writing under a picture that gives us information about the picture.
What is the caption?
400
This team, located in our nation's capital, currently has the best record in baseball.
What is the Washington Nationals?
400
These are the three school improvement leaders at Weeks Middle School.
Who are Mr. Pecina, Mr. Reeves, and Mrs. Fitzgerald?
500
These are all examples of this kind of text. textbook, biography, dictionary etc....
What are non-fiction texts?
500
This is the place in the Des Moines area where Obama will be speaking on Saturday.
What is the Living History Farms?
500
These are graphics used to list items or ideas in a text.
What are bullet points?
500
These two mixed martial artists attended college in Fort Dodge Iowa at Iowa Central Community College before both going on and becoming the heavy weight and light heavy weight champions in the UFC.
Who are Jon Jones and Cain Velasquez?
500
These are the different parts of the "Weeks Paragraph".
What is 1.) Indent the paragraph 2.) At least 5 sentences long 3.) Topic sentence included 4.) Concluding sentence included 5.) Supporting details 6.) Sentences begin with capital letters and end with the correct end marks