Week 31

Writing

100

What is the first thing you do to answer a question in an extended response? 

Restate the question.

200

What does the "A" stand for in the acronym that we use for writing, RACES?

Answer the question.

300

What are you doing when you are giving an example or proof of something by quoting an expert?  

Citing Evidence

400

After I cite evidence in an extended response what should I do next?

Explain how your evidence connects to your answer. 

500

What does the "S" in the acronym RACES, that we use for extended responses stands for what? 

Sum up your answer. 

Social Studies

100

What is happening to the Earth that is caused by people producing greenhouse gasses when they burn fossil fuels such as coal and oil?

Climate Change

200

What is the name of the robot that has been making high-profile appearances around the globe.

Sophia

300

What types of robots are meant to interact with humans on a more personal level?

Social Robots

400

What is the name of the robot that is child-sized and designed to walk, climb, or crawl over rubble and into tight spaces to search for survivors after natural disasters?

iCUB

500

In Mendez v. Westminster School District law suit, the judge ruled that segregation of schools for the Mexican students was in violation of what amendment?  

The 14th amendment

or

"equal protection of the law".  

Reading

100

The following are all examples of what kind of figurative language?  Bam!  Ding dong.  Zoom.

Onomatopoeia

 

200

What kind of irony is being used in the example below?

• After a terrible blind date, a woman calls her friend and says, "My favorite part was when he insulted the waiter and asked me to pay for both meals."

Verbal irony

300

What type of figurative language is used in the example below?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration 

400

What type of irony is it when the audience knows something which at least one of the characters in the text or performance does not know?
 

Dramatic irony

500

What type of figurative language is used in the example below?

The wind whistled through the trees and the flowers leaned into the sunlight.

Personification

Science

100

What is an assumption, an idea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can be tested to see if it might be true?

Hypothesis

200

What is the name of the process listed in the steps below? 

1. Make an observation.
2. Ask a question.
3. Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation.
4. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis.
5. Test the prediction.
6. Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.

Scientific Method

300

What types of variables are the variables that the experimenter changes to test their dependent variable?

Independent variable

400

A __________ is any factor, trait, or condition that can exist in differing amounts or types.

Variable

500

What does QSCC stand for? 

Question

Summary

Clarify

Connection

Math

100

−6k + 7k=

k

200

24 = 4c 

Find c

c = 6

300

Natalie buys organic almonds priced at $77 from the grocery store. How much did she pay the cashier, if she received $23 in change?

x – 77 = 23 ; $100

400

70 ÷ 7 − 3³

-17

500

Melanie works as a nanny and is paid $14 per hour. If she puts in 40 hours of work in 7 days, how much does she earn in a week?

$560