ELA
This is the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader through descriptive words, imagery, and figurative language.
What is mood?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These number are whole numbers, both negative and positive. They do NOT include fractions or decimals.
What are integers?
Want to make a living thing? You'll have to start with this, the most basic building block of life.
What is a cell?
American football has a championship game each year known as this.
What is the Super Bowl?
This genre is usually set in the past, based on oral tradition, often focuses on a problem to be solved, and sometimes features a trickster.
What is folktale?
These three civilizations built advanced civilizations in the Americas before the Europeans arrived.
Who are the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs?
This is a figure that is a larger or smaller version of the original, but with the same shape.
What is a scale copy or scale drawing?
Antibiotics not working? You might want to consider this type of treatment. It's a little gross, but it works!
What is a fecal transplant?
This person stands in front and leads the musicians as they play.
Who is the conductor?
This rhetorical device consists of words with strongly positive or negative connotations intended to influence a reader or listener.
What is loaded language?
After the French and Indian War, the British were deeply in debt. This was the first tax that Parliament tried to collect from the colonists in order to raise money.
What is the Sugar Act?
A ratio is called this when the units of measure are different.
What is a rate?
This is the signal that carries information through the cells of your nervous system. It's electric!
What is a synapse?
A baseball game goes into overtime after this many innings.
What is nine?
This literary device is a contrast in which reality is the opposite of what it seems to be.
What is irony?
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Constant of Proportionality is a fancy word for saying this.
What is unit rate?
It might not use a foreign substance, but this procedure is still illegal for athletes who are trying to get more energy during a race.
What is blood doping?
When playing music, notes are grouped into rectangle-shaped units for the musician to play. No, you don't need a ruler to read them.
What is a measure?
This point of view involves a narrator that is not a story character and reveals the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of ALL characters.
What is third person omniscient?
Not all of the signers of the Declaration of Independence became rich and famous. This man (with a broken "heart") lost everything, including his wife and children, as a result of his support for the new United States.
For a graph to be PROPORTIONAL, it must be a straight line, start at the origin, and have this third thing.
What is have a constant rate of change?
This term refers to bacteria and all the other living things that are so small that you can't see them with your naked eye.
What is a microorganism?
This artist created colorful, energetic paintings like Starry Night but was not popular during his own lifetime. That's not why he cut his own ear off, though.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?