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Explain and give an example of the literary term “onomatopoeia”.

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Words that sound like what they describe (e.g. boo, gurgle, hiss…)

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Explain and give an example of the literary term “alliteration”.

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Starting several words in a row with the same first letter of the same sound (e.g. Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.)

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares unlike things by including the word “as”

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What is personification?

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To personify is to give an inanimate object or an animal the qualities of a
human

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What was Don Quiote obsessed with?

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Chivalry (Being a knight)

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What is another word for “Pen name”?

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Pseudonym

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How long has “The Secret Garden” been in publication?

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100 years

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Who is Tom Sawyer’s best friend in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Huckleberry Finn

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What do you call a phrase with a hidden meaning?

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Idiom

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What is a colorful, imaginative way of expressing oneself in which a person doesn’t say exactly what he/she means?

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Figurative

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How do you identify a title of a book when writing?

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Underline or italics

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Which part of speech tells what kind, which one, or how many?

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Adjective

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What does a predicate do in a sentence?

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They describe what the subject is or does

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How does the following prefix affect word meaning: anti?

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Against

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How does the following prefix affect word meaning: inter?

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Between

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How does the following suffix affect word meaning: ist?

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One who

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How do you know if a sentence is a fragment?

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The subject and/or predicate is missing

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What do conjunctions do in a sentence?

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They connect individual words or groups of words

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Define a noun:

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a person, place, thing, or idea

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Who was Elizabeth I?

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She was queen of England for nearly 50 years

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England, during the 1400’s-1500’s was divided by what religions?

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Catholicism and Protestant

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What is Sir Francis Drake known for?

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He searched the seas for riches to bring back to Queen Elizabeth.

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What was the main reason Europeans began to explore?

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They were in search of spices

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Besides the search for spices, why did Europeans explore other lands?

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To spread Christianity

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What three reasons did Europeans have to colonize America?
Religions, freedom, and land.
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What ancient civilizations in Central and South America have vanished?
Maya, Inca, and Aztec
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The Spice Islands are now called what?
Indonesia
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What is a nomad?
A person who goes from place to place in search of water and food
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During westward expansion, why were Indians pushed out of their land?
Because the Europeans wanted their land
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What does boycott mean?
Refusal to buy goods
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What are two important uses people make of Lake Tangangika?
Fishing and transportation
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On which continent can we find the Great Lake Huron?
North America
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Name the Great Lakes.
Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Lake Erie
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What is the capital of Wisconsin?
Madison
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Name four regions of the U.S.A.
West, Midwest, South & Northeast
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The invisible line that runs east to west and splits the earth into northern and southern hemispheres is called?
Equator
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What is an archipelago?
A string of many islands in a large body of water
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Name three ancient civilizations which at one time stretched from southern Mexico to the Andes Mountains of South America.
Aztec, Maya, and Inca
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Who rode to warn the Colonists that the British were coming?
Paul Revere
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Name two of the Founding Fathers.
Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, Hancock, Madison
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What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
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How many terms can a president be elected for?
Two
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During the Civil War, the Southern States called themselves what?
The Confederacy
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Who fought in the Revolutionary War?
British vs. Colonists
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What is the name of the U.S. Document of laws?
The constitution
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What time period was known as the “rebirth” of ideas from ancient Greece and Rome?
Renaissance
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What artist painted the “Mona Lisa”?
Leonardo De Vinci
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When was the Mayan Civilization at its strongest?
About 200-900AD
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Who invented the printing press?
Gutenberg
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Where did slaves originally come from during the slave trade?
Africa
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What two types of accounts can you get at a bank?
Checking and Savings
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Why do people use a debit card?
spend the money directly from their back account
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Which card charges interest; debit or credit?
Credit card
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Why do people pay with credit cards?
So, they can pay later
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What were the Intolerable Acts?
Closing of the seaports in Boston, denial of self-government and quartering of British soldiers
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In 1765, Parliament passed this tax on every kind of printed paper.
The Stamp Act
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The Colonists were forced to allow British troops to live in their homes. What was this called?
The Quartering Act
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Who was the first African American man killed in the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
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The Intolerable Acts were designed to punish the Colony of what?
Massachusetts
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Do credit cards charge interest?
Yes
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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
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What is interest?
Money that is owed on top of what you borrowed
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What year did the Civil War begin?
1861
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What year did the Civil War end?
1865
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Name two events that led to the start of the Revolutionary War.
French and Indian war, Stamp Acts, Sugar Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
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Briefly describe the 13th amendment to the constitution.
It outlaws slavery
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Who governed the colonists?
The British king, King George the 3rd
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Round 6325 to the nearest 10 and 100.
6330 and 6300
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What percentage is each of these fractions: 75/100 and 240/100?
75% and 240%
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Tell how many degrees are in the following: an angle with a small square in its corner.
90 degrees
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What types of units are used in area problems? Volume problems?
Square units are used in area problems and cubic units are used in volume problems.
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How do you average a series of numbers?
Add all the numbers (including 0 if appropriate) and then divide by the total number of numbers added together. (E.g. 6,2,0,6 6+2+0+4=12 12 divided by 4=3 3 is the average number.)
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What is the formula for volume?
V=area of B x H (volume equals area of base times height.)
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What is the name of the 3 subatomic particles in an atom?
Electrons, neutrons, and protons.
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The measure of how much matter makes up an object is called what?
Mass.
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Solid, liquid, plasma, and gas are the four most common:
States of matter.
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What do hormones control?
Hair growth, voice changes, sweat, and growth
78
Explain revolution and rotation.
Planets revolve around the sun (1 year) and they rotate on an axis (1 day).
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What connects bone to muscle?
Tendons.
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What are all living things made of?
Cells.
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What are the four basic parts of an atom?
Nucleus, electrons, neutrons, and protons.
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What body system has to do with hormones and glands?
Endocrine system
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What are most elements on the periodic table?
Metals
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What does the Periodic Table do?
It organizes elements with common properties
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Name the symbol for sodium.
Na
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Name the symbol for hydrogen.
H
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Name the symbol for silver.
Ag
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Name the symbol for gold
Au
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Name the two categories of elements.
Metal and non-metal
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What is the symbol for iron?
Fe
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How do you say the first line in the ALA pledge in Spanish?
Como estudiante de le academia de lidarazgo
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What is a cognate?
A word that sounds and looks similar in both Spanish and English
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Who is Gabi?
The cat in our stories
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How do you say Friday in Spanish?
El viernes
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What does cuento mean?
Story.
96
Name the 7 elements of the staff.
Staff, Treble Clef, Key Signature, Time Signature, Bar Line, Measure, and Double Bar line.
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How many sixteenth notes are in one measure if the signature is 4/4?
16
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What does the top number of the time signature mean?
Beats per measure.
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Name the four families of the symphony?
Strings, woodwinds, Brass, Percussion.
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Who composed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Overture, Scherzo, and Wedding March?
Felix Mendelssohn
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When you use the restroom at recess before going to play you are using which habit?
Put first things first.
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What habit are you using when you get enough rest at home and come to school ready to learn?
Sharpen the saw
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What habit are you using when you work together to find a solution to an argument that makes both happy?
Think win-win
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Which habit are you using when you put away items without being asked?
Be proactive

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