Vocabulary
Dress Codes and Uniforms
Whitcomb Rules
Fall in New England
YouTube
100

A small change.

What is an adjustment?

100

This is when a school tells students they must wear the exact same thing every day. Usually it is bought from the school, or provided to students.

What is a uniform?

100

True or False: Students cannot receive homework at Whitcomb.

What is false?

100

One fun thing you can do in New England is to find your way out of this kind of Maize.

What is a corn maze?

100

This YouTuber has the most subscribers on the platform, with nearly 450 million.

Who is Mr. Beast?

200

To make changes to.

What is to modify?

200

This is when schools make rules about what students can wear, but still let them pick their own clothing items.

What is a dress code?

200

This is the number of times you can use the bathroom or get a drink of water in each class every week.

What is two?

200

New England farms make bank every fall selling customers on picking their own these for snacks and pies.

What are apples?

200

With over 2.7 billion monthly users, YouTube is the second-most visited site on the internet, behind only this website (which has owned YouTube since 2006).

What is Google?

300

To check or keep track of.

What is to monitor?

300

According to the text, these are some positive arguments for dress codes and uniforms.

What is: They contribute to more structured classrooms. No pressure for poorer students to keep up with the latest trend. Reduces peer pressure around clothing, etc.

300

Personal electronic devices are not allowed out during school hours at Whitcomb. Along with phones, Personal Electronic devices also include these items. (Just name one)

What are tablets, portable video game consoles, air pods, smart watches, non-Chromebook laptops?

300

The Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts is one of the oldest agricultural fairs in America, and often features the largest one of these plants in the world.

What is a pumpkin?

300

With nearly 15 billions views, this is the most watched video on YouTube.

What is "Baby Shark?"

400

Display. Attention. Experience with something.

What is exposure?

400

According to the text, what are some arguments against dress codes/uniforms?

What is: Students should be comfortable to learn, free to express themselves, need to wear things for religious reasons, etc?

400

If a teacher confiscates your phone, this is where it goes, and how you can get it back.

What is it goes to the AP office, and your parent/guardian must pick it up?

400

This New England state is the largest producer of maple syrup in the United States.

What is Vermont?

400

YouTube gets its name from the words "you," which refers to the person watching, and "tube," which refers to this other piece of entertainment technology.

What is a television?

500

The process of changing from one thing to another.

What is a transition?

500

Why do critics of uniforms and dress codes say they affect girls more than boys?

What is: they blame girls for boys being distracted (or something like that)?

500

These are an examples of "suspend-able offenses" that can get you suspended from Whitcomb (name 2).

1. Smoking or the possession of tobacco products at school or on the bus 2. Possession and/or consumption of alcoholic beverages 3. Profanity, discriminatory comments or obscenities directed to or at school personnel or fellow students 4. Vandalism 5. Stealing 6. Striking or deliberately causing harm to school personnel or a student(s) 7. Defiance, disrespect, or direct insubordination to school personnel 8. Behavior that encourages other students to act in any disruptive ways 9. *Bringing any type of weapon to school for any reason. Parents should discuss the content of MGL c. 71 section 37 H and H ½ with their children. 10. Instigating a fight or fighting 11. Bullying, harassing, discriminating, retaliating, or engaging in hate crimes

500

This pigment decreases in tree leaves during the fall, which causes them to change color.

What is chlorophyll?

500

With 491 million YouTube users, this country is the most active on YouTube.

What is India?