Definitions
Close Reading
Thematic Unit
Grammar
Teachers
100

This word ends a phrase meaning to escape, and is from a mastery text at the start of this unit: "Dream-Killers daily stalk the streets you and I travel, but we can give them the___".

Slip

100

The very first part of any meaning statement is this, and needs to be put in quotation marks.

Title

100

As a way to control slaves, enslavers didn't allow their enslaved people to learn how to do this activity.

Read/Write

100

This is the name for a sentence without a period, subject, or that doesn't make any sense.

Sentence Fragment/Incomplete Sentence

100

This teacher is in charge of the Jags, and has a daughter at Rocketship Futuro Academy.

Ms. Kendra

200

While quotes require the author's own words, all of your other sentences should be in who's words?

Your Own Words

200

This type of person has been forced to move to another country to avoid war, and was our main focus of study in unit 2.

Refugee

200

These sisters joined the quakers and became famous abolitionists.

Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina)

200

An appositive phrase is typically put right after this type of word.

Noun
200

This teacher has a name that rhymes with "pan".

Ms. Nan

300

This word, meaning in the beginning or at first, starts with an "I".

Initially

300

These three things are what we look at to identify the precise topic in an informational text.

Title/Captions/Repetitive Words

300

Mumbet chose this new name for herself after gaining her freedom.

Elizabeth Freeman

300

Initially, later on, and ultimately are these type of transition words.

Sequence Transition Words

300

This teacher at Rocketship has an accent from somewhere in Europe.

Mr. C

400

This word is used to refer to the practice of farming, and often is mentioned when we talk about the American South.

Agriculture

400

In historical fiction we take out the lesson learned and replace it with this genre frame question instead.

TTT/AT

400

This debate, named after the state trying to join the United States, was about the balance of how many free and slave states the country would have.

The Missouri Compromise

400

These types of words we spent a week ordering by using the acronym N.O.S.A.S.C.A.M.P.

Adjectives

400

This co-teacher is one of the tallest at Rocketship Futuro Academy, and commonly gives out fist-bumps to students and teachers.

Mr. Nick

500

This word, meaning able to be replaced with each other, was used in our close reading when we learned about factories in the north.

Interchangeable

500

This text structure looks at how two or more things are similar or different.

Compare and Contrast

500

This man escaped slavery by going to Europe, and later came back to the United States to become one of the most popular Abolitionist Speakers.

Frederick Douglass

500

A run-on sentence can be fixed by adding one of these types of words commonly explained by the acronym F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.

Conjunctions

500

This teacher used to play video games competitively, ranking in the top 300.

Mr. H