Show:
Morning Girl
European Explorers
Pre-Columbian Civs
COPS!
Ninja Skills
100
What is the name of Morning Girl and Star Boy's civilization?
the Tainos
100
What year did Columbus sail from Spain?
1492
100
Name the 3 Pre-Clombian Civilizations that we studied in Unit 2.
the Aztecs, the Maya, the Inca
100
What does COPS stand for?
Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling
100
What does a Ninja do when they read a reading comprehension passage?
Pause and Summarize
200
What was Star Boy's little boy name?
Hungry
200
Why did Columbus sail?
For land and fame
200
What did all three civilizations do as ritual gift to their gods?
Human Sacrifice
200
What do we call a capital letter on a word that is not a pronoun or at the beginning of a sentence?
a CRAZY capital
200
What does a Ninja do when they come to an Open Response question?
CHOP IT UP!
300
What does Star Boy do when he thinks he has lost Father's canoe?
Pretends to be a rock
300
What empire did Cortes eventually defeat?
the Aztec Empire
300
Name an important staple crop of the Maya and the Aztec.
Maize/Corn
300
What are the three parts of a paragraph?
Topic Sentence, Details, Closing Sentence
300
How do we CHOP up an Open Response?
Circle code words, box important story information
400
Who "protects" Star Boy from the storm?
The Special Tree - Grandfather
400
Why did the Pilgrims leave England?
For religious freedom in a new land
400
How did the Mayan's plan their calendar?
They watched the movement of the moon and the stars.
400
What punctuation do we use if we are expressing feeling?
an Exclamation Mark
400
What is the definition of "support"?
Give at least two examples from the text.
500
What visitors arrive at the end of the story?
Christopher Columbus
500
Name an explorer that sent a voyage to Roanoke in 1584?
Sir Walter Raleigh
500
Are all the members of these civilizations dead?
No, there descendants are still around today.
500
What makes a sentence complete?
The sentence expresses a complete thought - it has a subject and a predicate.
500
What does "how" mean when you see it in an Open Response?
Give multiple reasons that or multiple steps