Immigration
These are informally known as the reasons people leave their home country.
What are "push" factors?
The conjunctions "and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," and "yet" are known by this acronym.
What is FANBOYS?
This is the name of the place in New York Harborm owned by the U.S. government, that was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.
Where is Ellis Island?
3 x 12
What is 36?
The bottom part of a fraction (the whole).
These are informally known as the reasons people settle into a new life in a new country.
What are "pull" factors?
Words that connect two independent clauses to form a compound sentence are known by this term.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
This is someone who makes a conscious decision to leave his or her home and move to a foreign country with the intention of settling there.
What is an immigrant?
6 x 12
What is 72?
The top part of the numerator (the amount of the fraction).
What is the numerator?
Northern Ireland is a part of this nation.
What is the United Kingdom?
Words that link dependent clauses (also called subordinate clauses) to independent clauses, creating complex sentences are known by this term.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
This is someone who is moving from place to place (within his or her country or across borders), usually for economic reasons such as jobs relating to a certain season (e.g., farming a specific crop).
What is a migrant?
7 x 13
What is 91?
What are her curds and whey?
The west coast version of Ellis Island was known by this name.
What is Angel Island?
The part of the sentence that carries out the action is known as this word.
What is the subject?
This is the term for someone who has been forced to flee his or her home because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning.
What is a refugee?
13 x 13
What is 169?
This verb means to move. in a clumsy, ponderous, or noisy manner; inelegant.
What is galumph?
This act suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years starting in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The action of a sentence is known by this word.
What is the predicate?
Someone looking for international protection from dangers in his or her home country, but whose claim for refugee status hasn’t yet been determined legally is known as this.
What is an asylum seeker?
15 x 15
What is 225?
This is the name of the mad cartoon from Danny and Barbara's childhood that we watched the opening theme song of during our Early New York unit.
What is Angry Beavers?