Text Focus
Social Studies
Holiday IQ
Writer's Workshop
Vocabulary
100

Priya feels a certain way about American markets.

What is From Scratch?

100

The president, vice president and cabinet make up this area of government.

What is the Executive Branch?

100

This holiday celebrate with 7 candles; 3 red, 3 green and 1 black candle.

What is Kwanzaa?

100

This stage is when you brainstorm and organize ideas.

What is the PreWriting stage?

100

It is a small, specialized machine or electronic device.

What is a gadget?

200

A collection of poems about a boy's experience moving to a new country.

What is a Movie in My Pillow?

200

A form of government in which the people elect leaders to represent them.

What is a republic?

200

An 8-day Jewish holiday that begins on the 25th 

What is Hanukkah?

200
This stage is when you have done your editing and final draft in your wirting.

What is the publishing stage?

200

People in your family

Who are relatives?

300

He made many many attempts to fly

What is Captain Arsenio: Inventions and MisAdventures in Flight?

300

When Britain passed new taxes on the colonists without any input.

What is "No taxation without representation"?

300

This holiday is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year.

What is Diwali?

300

This type of essay is when you given information about a topic

What is an expository essay?

300

It means to do something without wanting to

What is reluctantly?

400

A story about Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's climb to being great inventors.

What is The Inventor's Secret?

400

The supreme court and other federal courts make up this branch.

What is the Judicial Branch?

400

It marks the longest night and darkest time of the year.

What is the Winter Solstice?

400

It is the main idea of an expository essay.

What is the thesis?

400

It means it is successfully growing.

What is flourishing?

500

The girl was not good at english but her brother told her to learn by watching tv.

What is Elisa's Diary?

500

During the Constitutional Convention, delegates agreed to let the slave trade continue for another 20 years. 

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

500

This holiday is celebrated after Christmas and is a day to give gifts to servants, tradespeople and the poor.

What is Boxing Day?

500

It means to present events in the order in which they happened.

What is chronological order?

500

It means someone who is odd in their dress or personality.

What is eccentric?