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Language Arts Facts
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A youth under the age of 18
What is a juvenile
100
Killing of someone with malice of forethought.
What is murder
100
Age at which a teen can be sentenced to death
What is 18?
100
This declined 36% from 1994 through 1999.
What is juvenile arrests/crime
100
new words we study to understand the meaning of a text
What is vocabulary
200
a member of a jury
What is a juror
200
Killing done during a crime deemed very dangerous for a human life. The crime was most likely not committed with the intention of killing.
What is second degree murder?
200
maximum length of time a child can be sentenced to prison
What is life
200
this is purged at a rate of 1 percent to 2 percent a year during teenage years
What is brain matter
200
highlighting or taking notes when reading to aid in understanding and remembering details
What is annotation
300
Definition of heinous
What is horrible?
300
The killing of someone intentionally but without malice of forethought. For example, if the killing was a crime of passion (killing a spouse or lover because of jealousy), the intention was to kill. However, there was no malice aforethought because it was not planned.
What is voluntary manslaughter
300
Type of crime that involves killing someone with planning and malice of forethought
What is first degree murder
300
The White House had a televised conference to address what growing problem (in a 2001 article).
What is school shootings?
300
periods and commas are examples of this
What is punctuation?
400
a conditional release from imprisonment ; the person serves the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are met
What is parole
400
Killing someone unlawfully but without malice of forethought. lt was committed without an intent to kill and without a conscious disregard for human life.
What is involuntary manslaughter
400
Age of Nathaniel Brazill when he killed his middle school teacher
What is 13
400
the number of juveniles sentenced to life without parole
What is 79?
400
has an opening sentence, 3-4 supporting sentences and a closing sentence
What is a paragraph?
500
A word that means deserving blame; guilt
What is culpability?
500
The killing of one person by another either intentionally or unintentionally.
What is homicide?
500
Boy who killed 6-year old girl using wrestling as his defense
What is Lionel Tate
500
This is the age range that language systems grow the fastest in juveniles
What is up to 12 years old?
500
when are you allowed to wear a hood in this class?
What is never!