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short readings
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This boy thought he would gain an identity by joing the Royals
What is Andy
100
Musical commercials, or jingles, that we hear on radio and TV are a highley effective type of advertisement Jingles=
What is musical commercials
100
This form of note taking is recommended to organize information
What is two column note taking
100
Topic Active listening is an essential component of success, not only in school but in the broader world. Effective listening lets us know that even though our friend says it's OK if we postpone our hiking trip, she is really disappointed. It enables us to hear the sound of ahorn warning us not to walk into a car's path. It allows us to respond to the lyrics of an emotional song. It helps us decide whether someone is telling the truth
What is active listening
100
This country had to change their Disney set up to accommodate European taste
What is France
200
This is a positive form of stress
What is eustress
200
A person's surname will often give a clue about his or her ethnicity: For example, most people recognize that Schmidt is German, and Beauvoir is French Surname=
What is last name
200
When we use a single word or phrase to explain what a reading is about
What is topic
200
Main Idea Whay do physicist Albert Einstein, US General George Patton, former British Prime Minister Winstong Churchil, brokerage firm founde Chales Schwab, Walt Disney, and Jay Leno have in common? You'd probably say that all of them are intelligent and talented. They are but all of them share another chartacteristic: learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities are sometimes viewed as unintelligent. Nothing could be further form the truth. There is no relationship between learning disabilities and intelligence.
What is Successful people prove that there is no link between learning disabilities and intelligence.
200
This gold medal winner starts in the Milk advertisement in the book
Who is Dana Torres
300
This hypothesis claims that you can only learn certain skills in a certain period of tim.
What is Critical Period Hypothesis
300
Fire can result when combustible materials are not stored properly. Combustible=
What is likely to catch fire or burn
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What the author is trying to convey about the topic
What is main idea
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Main Idea What does our college education mean? One thing it means is that you aremuch more likely to become an active citzen. Education is seems is the best predictor of voter turnout. Persons with a college education are about 40 percent more likely to vote than persons with a grade school education. Becoming educated causes a person to have a greater interest in politics and to seek more political inforamtion. College educated people believe that they can make a difference politically. Finally, they are more likely to have educated friends who vot.
What is College education is the best predictor of voter turnout.
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These two characters were represented in the cartoons read for the main idea assignment.
Who are Calvin and Hobbes
400
The title of this reading showed an experiment first designed to show how animals learned and then found out something different about parent child relationships
What is Monkey Love
400
When parents divorce it is usually a traumatic experience for children. traumatic=
What is causing distress or distruption stressfull
400
Two strategies we can use before reading for better comprehension
What is predict, question, activate schema (background knowledge) establish purpose.
400
Topic Law enforcement officers are constantly faced with danger. Events can go from routine to life threatening in seconds. The risk of being shot or having to shoot someone is high. Each year over 50,000 police officers are assaulted. Forty two were feloniously killed in 1999
What is law danger for law enforcement or law enforcement officers
400
Open and closed are two examples of this kind of system
What is the circulatory system
500
Our first reading defined this word as stress defined as force over an area. Hint the reading was called- Can you stand the _______
What is pressure
500
Some students taking on substantial debt loads that will follow them for the rest of their lives.
What is large
500
Two strategies we can use during reading to aid with comprehension
What is predict, picture, relate, monitor, correct, highlight and annotate, take two column notes
500
When the main idea is not directly stated in the paragraph it is this
What is implied
500
Country that practices baseball in a different way than America using group harmony
What is Japan