Grammar
Mexican Americans
Asian Americans
Jewish Americans
Reading and Writing
100
The three parts of speech that adverbs modify.
What are verbs, adjectives and adverbs?
100
The leader of the Workers' Rights Movement.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
100
Japanese women who married US soldiers and returned with them to America after WWII.
What are War Brides?
100
The country that most Jewish immigrants came from during the Great Migration.
(What is Russia?)
100
The format of the MLA header.
What is Your name, Teacher's Name, Class, Date.
200
Did I do ______ on this test?
What is "well"
200
The program created by the US government that built a 14 mile long wall between San Diego and Tijuana.
What is Operation Gatekeeper?
200
Typical jobs for Chinese immigrants during the first wave.
(What are railroad workers and miners?)
200
The advice column that many new Yiddish speaking immigrants read for help assimilating.
(What is the Bintel Brief?)
200
The method of reading where you break the text into small sections and carefully read and re-read each section before moving on.
What is Chunk and Click.
300
The subjective personal pronouns.
What are I, you, he, she, it, we, they, who? (Woo!)
300
Community centers in Latino neighborhoods that provided support to recent immigrants.
What are mutualistas?
300
The presidential decree that caused for the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during WW2.
(What is Executive Order 9066?)
300
The neighborhood in New York that many Jewish immigrants settled in during the late 1880s and early 1900s.
(What is the Lower East Side?)
300
The order of the analytical paragraph.
What is topic sentence, context/evidence 1, analysis, transition, context/evidence 2, analysis, concluding sentence.
400
The four kinds of nouns.
What people, places, things and ideas?
400
The main push factor for the first wave of Mexican immigration?
What is the Mexican Revolution?
400
Immigration processing center for Asian immigrants.
(What is Angel Island?)
400
The US government act that allowed 200,000 people affected by the Holocaust to enter the United States in 1948.
(What is the Displaced Persons Act?)
400
Elements of a good analysis.
What is connects the evidence to the argument, is concise, and contains inferences.
500
The difference between its and it's.
What is showing ownership vs a contraction?
500
The program created by the US government, in response to the Great Depression, that provided transportation for Mexican immigrants encouraging them to return to Mexico.
(What is the Repatriation Program?)
500
The Chinese leader that founded the People’s Republic of China.
(Who is Mao Zedung?)
500
The US government act that placed strict quotas on immigration from specific countries, and effectively ended the second wave of Jewish immigration.
(What is the National Origins Act of 1924?)
500
The method of joining your context and evidence into one fluid sentence, either using a comma or colon.
What is context/evidence integration.