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LEAP Capacities
100
A war in which colonies rebelled against their mother country. They claimed their independence in 1776 and acquired France as an ally after the Battle of Saratoga. They won the war and became an independent nation. Their rebellion was caused by being taxed without representation and violation of personal rights.
What is the American Revolution?
100
A scientific table that displays elements. All elements are made up of atoms and are organized on the table by number of electrons and properties. Elements can combine to form compounds. Each element on the table has an atomic mass, name, and proton/electron number listed. When elements combine, they sometimes cause chemical reactions that create new substances, such as Hydrogen and Oxygen creating water.
What is the Periodic Table?
100
There are four colors that are ranked one to four with one being the color personality most like you. Gold, Blue, Orange and Green are your options. Gold People are the organized, rule- following people who value tradition and pay attention to details. Blue people are the emotional, sympathetic people who value love and friendship. Green people look at the big picture and think very analytically. Orange people are enthusiastic, risk- takers that enjoy having fun.
What is True Colors Personality Quiz?
100
These are clauses that cannot stand by themselves as sentences. Here are examples of the three types. Noun-WHOEVER READ THE BOOK, tore the pages. Adjective- The girl WHO TALKED ALL THE TIME was annoying. Adverb- The family stopped at a hotel in Dallas BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED.
What are dependent clauses?
100
A skill that helps you in all aspects of life. This skill helps you conquer any problem you may face. You have to use your brain and think outside of the box when using this skill.
What is Problem Solving?
200
A period of time when a country began to colonize another continent. These colonies formed for different reasons: political, economic, and social. Some formed for debtors or religous freedom. They did, though, form their own representative legislatures and develop their own culture and way of life.
What is English Colonization?
200
The idea that the earth is broken into lithospheric plates that float on the mantle. These plates interact with eachother, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges to form. These form at plate boundaries. There are three types of boundaries: transform, divergent and convergent. Transform boundaries are when plates slip past eachother, causing earthquakes. Divergent boundaries are when plates move apart, causing Mid-Ocean ridges to form, and convergent boundaries are plates moving together, forming mountain ranges.
What is Plate Tectonics?
200
A book in which a young military genius named Ender Wiggin saves the world from "buggers". He attends a battle school in space where he is alienated from others because of his success.He graduates years early, just in time to begin playing war "games". He later learns these "games" were actually real battles and later becomes a hero. It taught us all about Blurred Lines Between Good and Evil, Exceptions to the Rules and the Impact of Alienation and Lonliness.
What is Ender's Game?
200
A process in which you identify the roles of words in sentences. You underline the subject and squiggly underline the verb. You circle the direct objects and double underline the indirect objects. You box the describers of the subject and triangle the modifiers of the verb. You spiral underline the coordinating conjunction.
What is Framing?
200
This is very crucial to any presentation or relationship. When you use this correctly, your point comes across very clearly and is well understood by your audience.
What is Communication?
300
A war between two countries who had just fought a different war 30ish years before. Main causes of this war included British impressments and trade issues. This war, also known as Mr.Madison's War, accomplished absolutely nothing.
What is the War of 1812?
300
These three laws explain motion. 1) An object at rest stays at rest until acted upon by an outside force and an object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force. 2) Force equals mass times acceleration. 3) For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction
What is Newton's Laws of Motion?
300
A book in which our main character Hero gets engaged to the Count Claudio with help from Claudio's friend Don Pedro. But Don John, who wants revenge on his brother Pedro, tries to ruin their relationship. With the help of Borachio and Conrade, Don John convinces Pedro and Claudio that Hero is cheating on him. Meanwhile, Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend Benedick have always insulted each other, but with a little help from their friends, they find themselves "tricked into falling in love". Anyway, in the end Hero is proven innocent and Claudio and her get married along with Beatrice and Benedick. We learned about the Weight/Importance of Repuation, the Importance of Forgiveness, Decisions and Consequences and Effects of Jealousy and Assumptions.
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
300
These are verbs that are acting as something other than the main verb in a sentence. There are three types. Here are examples of each. Gerund- The boys enjoyed SWIMMING IN THE CREEK. Infinitive- Allison and Gracie liked TO READ ROMANTIC BOOKS. Participle- The girl, SMILING AT THE AUDIENCE, performed her solo perfectly.
What are verbals?
300
This increases your learning. Done effectively, it requires you to seek out unique sources and take good notes. It is necessary for any presentation or project. It increases your knowledge of the world.
What is Research?
400
A war that divided North and South over issues like states' rights, slavery, and sectionalism. The North, fighting to preserve the Union, was led by Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The South, who seceded to form the Confederacy, was led by Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. The North won the war.
What is the Civil War?
400
The theory that the continents were once a huge, mega-continent called Pangea and that they slowly drifted apart over the years and are still moving (very slowly). Evidence supporting this theory include similar mountain ranges, fossils and glaciers on continents far apart.
What is Continental Drift ?
400
A book that takes place in a country ruled by an evil old man. This book is about the old man's young clone, Matt. Matt, though, is not evil. In his society, clones are looked down on and all of the old man's family hates him, all except Maria, who loves him. Matt struggles to understand the purpose of his existence until he is told by the old man himself that he is simply there for spare parts. So, Matt makes a run for it. Eventually the old man dies without Matt and he finds himself ruler of an empire built on cruelty, evil and greed. Main ideas of the book include What truly defines our humanity, the ethics of scientific discovery, the question of whether humans are naturally altruistic, and the role of literature as persuasion.
What is the House of the Scorpion?
400
These are words we learned this year: triskaidekaphobia- the fear of the numbe thirteen. fugacious- lasting only a short time. antiquated- very old, archaic. lackadaisical - uninterested. ambedextrous- equally skilled with both hands. flibbertigibbet - a silly, scatter-brained person. erudite- characterized by extensive reading. cognizant - aware, concious.
What are vocabulary words?
400
This important skill seperates us as individuals. It can cause your project or paper to stand out when compared to normal ones. It will also help your problem solving skills greatly improve. This skill is used constantly in everyday life.
What is Creativity?
500
A time when new technological developments revolutionized the production of goods and caused urbanization to rapidly acclerate. People left their farms to work in factories and thus caused factory cities to grow in size and population.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
A spiral galaxy containing eight planets: Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. This galaxy has one star that the planets orbit around. One planet, Earth, supports life. Like other planets, Earth has a moon that orbits it and effects its tides. The Earth's orbit around the Sun and tilt of its axis causes seasons to occur.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
500
These are questions that help us understand what we are reading more in depth. There are three types. The first covers basic facts. The second requires you to use inferencing skills and the third causes us to examine big ideas and real -life connections.
What is leveled questions?
500
This is a sentence with two independent and at least one dependent clause. Here's an example: Caleb loves pitching, but his coach uses him as a catcher more often than a pitcher because he is better at catching than throwing.
What is a compound- complex sentence?
500
This means to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses. It means that you know who you are and how you are percieved. This allows you to see the good and bad in other people.
What is Self- Awareness?