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Grammar
Vocabulary
"America's Educational Failings"
"Hard Life"
Citing
100
The action word of a sentence.
What is the verb?
100
To pacify, such as with a fussy child.
What is appease?
100
The author of "America's Educational Failings."
Who is Fareed Zakaria?
100
The way Rick "found out the system didn't work."
What is being suspended (for 6 months) for truancy?
100
A section of text being quoted that is less than four lines long.
What is a short quotation?
200
The person or thing that is doing the action of the sentence.
What is the subject?
200
Evil or brutal. It may be used to describe wars or horrible events.
What is atrocious?
200
The main force in favor of greater equality.
What is "the diffusion of knowledge and skills"?
200
Putting yourself in the position of someone or seeing things from their point of view rather than feeling sorry for them.
What is empathy?
200
To avoid plagiarism, to give credit to the authors, and to add credibility to our arguments.
What are the reasons we use citations?
300
The verb of "Hanna and Sally laughed until it hurt."
What is laughed?
300
Lasting a long time, as in "he had a ________ respect for her."
What is abiding?
300
This remains the crucial element for long term results toward equity.
What is education?
300
The economic classification for Rick.
What is the working-class?
300
True or False: You must cite direct quotes AND paraphrases.
What is true?
400
The subject of "Uncertain, I removed my glasses to get a better look."
What is I?
400
One's general attitude and behavior.
What are dispositions?
400
What scoring well on the OECD test, which assesses problem-solving, is directly related to (Must include at least three).
What are "better jobs, rising wages and productivity, good health, civic participation, and political engagement"?
400
Adversities faced by Rick and others in the same economic situation (Must include at least two).
What are lack of education, alcoholism, drug addiction, gang violence, incarceration, stereotyping and prejudice.
400
These come immediately after the end of a short quote that has been embedded in the text.
What are (end) quotation marks?
500
The verb of "Between you and me, we're going to win this race!"
What is are/are going?
500
The _________ tornado tore through the town, undeterred by buildings.
What is implacable?
500
The culture on which many parents were raised, which is in opposition to the Common Core (College and Career Readiness Standards).
What are low standards and high self-esteem?
500
One of The Four B's that best describes and relates to the theme of "Is Hard Life Inherited?"
What is be good to one another?
500
These go in the parenthesis after a citation.
What are the author's name and/or the page number.