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WEB Resources, DCPS CAREacter Traits, and Keys
ELA
ALGEBRA
100

A play on words or a humorous use of a word that suggests a different meaning. For example: To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

What is a pun?

100

This tool allows you to check your grades, your attendance, and your assignments.

What is FOCUS?

100

 There are many job statistics on this website to help you decide what you want to do: job descriptions, qualifications, salaries, areas of greatest need, etc.

What is the Bureau of Labor Statistics or (www.blsgov.ooh)?

100

This is the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words in a line of poetry or in a sentence of prose. For example, 

Where is Wanda's wheelbarrow?

What is alliteration?

100

This is an unknown element in an equation.

What is a variable?

200

Everyone wants a job at the keyboard factory because they are offering extra _______________.

What are shifts?

200

This tool allows you to communicate via email with your teachers, your guidance counselors, and your administrators. 

What is DCPS Outloook?

200

This very important organization offers Florida students who have IEPs a wealth of job support: training, camps, internships, scholarships, and more.

What is Vocational Rehabilitation or www.rehabworks.org?

200

This is a type of figurative language in which you directly compare two unlike things. For example, Stella is a gazelle in track and field.

What is a metaphor?

200

This is the answer when you solve for x in 5x+1=16.

What is 3?

300

Rabbits listen to this type of music.

What is Hip-hop?

300

This tool allows you to access many of your textbooks, Delta Math, Achieve 3000, CommonLit, and other learning applications without having to sign onto each one.

What is Blended Learning?

300

These are the 3 Keys to Academic Success.

What are show up, pay attention, and do your work?

300

This vocabulary strategy helps you figure out the meaning of an unknown word by looking at the meaning of the whole sentence in which it appears to see if there are hints to the meaning of the unknown word.

What is using context clues?

300
This is the acronym for the order of operations that can help you solve a multistep equation.

What is PEMDAS?

400

This school supply is king of the classroom.

What is a ruler?

400

This tool allows you to access announcements related to FHS, information about FHS teams and clubs, as well as Fletcher Buzz, Fletcher Flicks, and Fletcher Follows.

What is the FHS website?

400

When you treat yourself and others with dignity, you are practicing this DCPS CAREacter trait.

What is RESPECT?

400

This is the main character of a story, the one that the reader usually roots for.

What is a protagonist?

400

This is the answer to this literal equation in which you solve for a. 

5a-2b=15

What is a=3+2b/5?

500

This is the name of the restaurant that doesn't use menus because you get what you deserve.

What is Karma?

500

This tool gives you access to all of the tools DCPS offers. Once you log in here, you can access FOCUS, OUTLOOK, BLENDED LEARNING and more.

What is OneView?

500

When you are trying to be a positive member of your home, school, community, and nation, you are practicing this DCPS CAREacter trait.

What is CITIZENSHIP?

500

This rhetorical device involves the repetition of a grammatical structure to emphasize an idea or a rhythm. For example, " ... government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish..."

What is parallelism?

500

This is the slope-intercept form of the equation of a straight line.

What is y=mx+b?