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Elements of a Revolution
Characteristics of a Revolutionary Person
Components of an Effective Summary
Parts of Speech
Mystery Category
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The first element of a revolution, this term describes the current state of power, which a revolution would want to change.
What is the status quo?
100
Ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage
What is bravery?
100
A complex topic sentence includes the title, author's name, strong verb, and this.
What is the main idea in your own words?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
The Mirabal sisters were from this Caribbean country.
What is the Dominican Republic?
200
The second element of a revolution, this term describes the people, movement, or ideas that are trying to change the current state of power. Examples from yesterday's reading include the Movement of the 14th of June and Las Mariposas.
What is the opposing or new force?
200
Strength of character to persevere through any and all setbacks
What is grit?
200
An effective summary contains key points and details, otherwise known as this.
What is supportive evidence?
200
The person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something in the sentence; the noun that the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
200
Stephen King, author of "Why We Crave Horror Movies," argues that people are drawn to horror movies because they allow us to "dare our nightmares," meaning this.
What is to prove that we can face our fears and play into them from the safety of a movie theatre.
300
The third element of a revolution, this term describes the outcome of a successful revolution.
What is the radical change or effect of the force?
300
Remains focused on desired results
What is goal-oriented?
300
The purpose of a summary is to do this.
What is to inform and/or to explain?
300
A word that describes nouns, such as brilliant, friendly, and self-sacrificial.
What is an adjective?
300
Name one foreign country in which Ms. Bliss has previously taught.
What is India, Nepal, Cambodia, Ukraine, Rwanda.
400
From the Latin word meaning "turn around," this term is defined as a fundamental change in power that occurs in a relatively short period of time.
What is a revolution?
400
Thinks of new ideas and new ways to solve problems
What is innovative?
400
Strong summaries never contain personal pronouns, such as "I," "we," or "you" because summaries do not contain this.
What are opinions?
400
A word that describes verb, adverbs, and adjectives, such as quickly, extremely, and happily.
What is an adverb?
400
To paraphrase means to do this.
What is to put a text into your own words.
500
Name two modern revolutions.
What are women's rights, LGBT rights, education, SmartPhones, etc.
500
Willing to give up one's own interests or wishes in order to help others and/or to advance a cause
What is self-sacrificial?
500
A strong summary uses these types of words to make connections between sentences smoother.
What are transition words?
500
A fragment is missing either a subject or this.
What is a verb?
500
Mary McLeod Bethune's dream for democracy is based on this belief system.
What is Christianity?