ELA
Identify the figurative language: "The classroom was a zoo during the indoor recess"
what is a metaphor
Michigan is famous for being surrounded by four of these five massive bodies of fresh water.
What are the Great Lakes (Lakes: Michigan, Superior, Eerie, Huron, Ontario)
If a recipe calls for 2 cups of flour for every 1 cup of sugar, this is the ratio of flour to sugar.
What is 2:1
This cell organelle breaks down food to produce energy.
What is the mitochondria
This is the mascot of Caledonia High School, represented by a fierce, armor-clad Scottish warrior.
Fighting Scot!
When writing an essay using this format, you must list all of your sources in alphabetical order on a separate page at the very end of your paper, using this specific title
what is a Works Cited page
Open in 1957, this famous 5-mile-long suspension bridge connects Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.
What is the Mackinac Bridge?
A car travels 120 miles in 2 hours. This is the car's unit rate of speed in miles per hour
What is 60 miles per hour?
Unlike animal cells, plant cells have this rigid outer layer that provides structure and support.
What is a cell wall?
Running right through the Caledonia area, this popular 92-mile-long paved trail is used by locals for biking, running, and walking.
What is the Paul Henry Trail?
Identify the figurative language: "He had a mountain of homework to do, and it would take him a million years to finish"
What is hyperbole
Launched in 2009, ArtPrize is a massive, city-wide art competition where judges cast votes to help choose the grand prize winner. Who are the judges of this competition?
The public
If 25% of the 20 students in Mr. Smith’s class wear glasses, this is the total number of students who wear glasses
What is 5 students?
In an ecosystem, organisms like fungi and bacteria that break down dead organic matter are known by this name.
What is a decomposer?
Name all of the five elementary schools located within the Caledonia Community Schools district.
Dutton, Cal El, Paris Ridge, Kettle Lake, Emmons Lake
While Jonas receives many painful memories like war and physical injury, this specific memory is the very first emotionally painful memory the Giver transmits to him, which introduces Jonas to the concept of suffering and starvation.
What is the memory of the injured elephant?
Grand Rapids was the boyhood home and burial place of this man, who served as the 38th President of the United States.
Gerald R. Ford
A blue paint mixture uses 3 parts blue to 2 parts white. A larger batch uses 12 parts white. To keep the shade identical, this is the total number of parts the entire larger batch will have.
What is 30 parts?
These macromolecules are made up of smaller building blocks called amino acids and are responsible for building and repairing tissues, as well as making up enzymes
What are proteins?
Before Caledonia became a bustling community, its economy in the 1800s relied almost entirely on this industry, thanks to the area's rich soil and open land.
Farming
To save Luke's life after Jen's death, Jen's father uses his government connections to secure Luke a fake ID, giving him this new identity so he can go to boarding school.
who is Lee Grant
This river flows right through the heart of downtown Grand Rapids and is the longest river in the entire state of Michigan.
What is the Grand River?
Train A travels 150 miles in 2.5 hours. Train B travels 220 miles in 4 hours. This is the train that is moving at a faster unit rate.
What is Train A? (Train A is 60 mph; Train B is 55 mph)
This biological term describes the hierarchical organization of a living organism, moving from the smallest unit of life to a functioning individual (terms are organ, organ system, tissue, cell, organism)
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
he village of Caledonia is located within this large Michigan county, which also includes the city of Grand Rapids.
Kent County