Confirmed sub 1 Flashcards
Reason for Mexican War?
Manifest Destiny
Geographical features that influenced Greek civilization?
Mountains crisscrossed the peninsula and limited communication which helped create independent city-states
why did enslaved African Americans use Christianity as a tool of resistance?
Admonition for the humane Treatment**answers were related to the bible (admonition, dehumanization etc)
What are Romans known for?
Laws and Engineering
Which of the following best describes an important feature of American Indian life in pre-Columbian California. Most American Indians of the region belonged to the same language group
Hierarchical social structures
There was a conflict of concern/interest over California water with what two areas?
North and South
What are Phoenicians known for?
Trade route network…trade over long distances.
What brought Mexicans immigrants to CA?
Treaty of Guadalupe
Reason for Monroe Doctrine?
Stop European Colonization
What is 400 miles long, good soil, etc?
The Great Central Valley
Both the reformation and counter reformation of the 16th century strongly influenced which of the following developments?
Spread of education
Between the early 19th century and 1880, the amount of time required to harvest an acre of wheat dropped from 56 to 20 hours . This development resulted
a. Growth in demand for farm products
B. Improvement in agriculture and Machinery
C. Gains in average farm size
D. increased availability of agricultural labor.
Improvement in agriculture and Machinery
Opponents of the growing immigration to the U.S. during the late 19th century focused on immigrants:US constitution vs CA constitution differences between the 2 constitutions
a) Political ideology
b) nationality and religion
c) educational level
d) social class and economic status
nationality and religion * Xenophobia came with a passage of fear of alien immigrants 6l6*
The printing press gave rise to what?
Protestant spread
Which quote from the Declaration of Independence shows John Locke’s influence on revolutionaries?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
- Was asked to identify which statement best represented the idea of popular sovereignty. Excerpt (this was an answer choice)-
- The excerpt above best illustrates which of the following principles of the California Constitution?
a. Freedom of assembly
b. Limited government
c. Equal protection of the law
d. Popular sovereignty
- All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require it.
- popular sovereignty
Rhode Island- Asked about government and Rhode Island
Separation of Church and State
Asks to read four acts and determine which one is most accurate regarding the Silk Road and Mediterranean Sea trade
Line 1- China (keyword)
What can the CA governor do that the President can’t? Question is worded as “ what provision from the CA constitution is the most important difference between the CA governor and the US president
CA Governor may reject part of the bill without voting for the entire bill
question about who has control of abolishing slavery. The question was about what was the growing tension over? Not the exact question, but they do ask about the problems that the North and South had in regards to slavery
Did congress have control over which new territories could be slave states
How did radical republicans feel about the 14th amendment?
Bills of Rights and African Americans
What was George Washington like during the American revolution?
Took risks/ different approaches than usual or typical
PICTURE**
This pyramid was presented and it wanted you to identify its origin
Mesoamerica
Early capitalist development influenced the rise of representative government?
production for profit
Hamilton and Jefferson’s disagreements?
Limited government
Something of why assembly was created ?
A variety of manufactured goods
There was one with the Indians and pre Colombian period.
This question talks about during the movement where they were forced to live one option mentioned was in government land or along the Mississippi River. I looked that up Mississippi River is correct,
lived closer to coastal areas where there was water
Which sentence requires structural analysis for someone to understand the
meaning of the word?
Dehumanize
“New York at Night” by Amy Lowell, what literary device did she use
A)alliteration
B)personification
C)symbolism
D)Simile
personification
Author being BIAS in a passage. Question asked how is the author showing personal Bias. A) Lack of evidence/support B) acknowledge other authors C) contradicts other authors D) picks a topic other authors disagree
lack of evidence/support
If kids make jokes and riddles this is because?
Lexical ambiguity
During language acquisition as English as a second language a student. Or when an EL student begins making opinions/comments, what stage are they in?
Intermediate fluency
Which is a compound sentence?
I don’t like fishing, but I’ll go for the ride
There was a short poem that asked what kind of language is used or something
POEM: A near horizon whose sharp jags
Cut brutally into a sky
Of leaden heaviness, and crags
Of houses lift their masonry
Ugly and foul, and chimneys lie
And snort, outlined against the gray
Of lowhung cloud. I hear the sigh
The goaded city gives, not day
Nor night can ease her heart, her anguished labours stay.
a. alliteration
b. symbolism
c. personification
personification
Child using word bleeblee to ask for blanket family now calls blanket bleeble what language acquisition? (Not exact wording)
idiolect
In which of the following sentences does the syntax allow for two different interpretations?
I served the soup to the women with the spoon.
What determines the quantitative tool for ability to read?
a. number for accurately pronounced words)
b. Length of words and sentences
c. Rhetorical devices
length of words and sentences
What type of behavior is atypical for a second language
Making the same mistakes in both languages
Most clearly requires contextual analysis: pronunciation and meaning of multi syllable words
a. Jogging and walking at a rapid pace several times a day was found to be among the most beneficial form of exercise.
b. Local guide- help find the EXPOSED part of the desert before sunset.
local guide- help find the EXPOSED part of the desert before sunset
1st grade teacher uses the sentence “let’s get the ball rolling!” at the beginning of a social studies activity . Several students looked puzzled at this Statement. This confusion is most likely due to which of the following factors?
The intended meaning of the phrase is different from the literal meaning
What is the paragraph saying essentially?
Excerpt from Invisible Man
“ I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination - indeed, everything and anything except me.”
2 PART QUESTION
Questions 1 focuses on the first paragraph and what it means to compare himself to a bodiless heads at the circus - My answer had the word dehumanize in it. The 2nd question focused on the 2nd paragraph and comparing himself as a chicken hatching from an egg - My answer had to go with the prejudice attitudes
Something about a student being able to fill in the blank every 5th word
context clues
What is a writer’s plan for the revision process?
Check for clarity and ensure the ideas flow logically
What is a writer’s plan for the revision process?
To explain document enclosed
Passage the describes a mans perception of a storm, what is the tone?
Exhilarating
What can a student notice from a paper/article that will make it appear unbiased?
Writers include different points of view
Which best explains why distinguishing phonemes in spoken words presents a challenge for most children?
The problem is phoneme frequency, can’t be captured as a whole. Keyword: Blended
Which sentence is the correct form of using apostrophe?
The students grades
What has at least one vowel and consonant sounds?
Syllable
Correct citation of an anthology? (poems) It asked what was missing in the citation
Gave an incomplete citation and asked what else it needed to be complete
number of pages
What statement is correct regarding English Dialect?- worded differently
a. All english speakers use the same syntax… but have different word meanings
b. Some english speakers speak the original language while others use alternate versions to create a dialect
c. English speakers use dialect according to varied situations
d. Some dialects are better for educational/scientific language, some dialects are better for expressing emotion.
some english speakers speak the original language while others use alternate versions to create a dialect
Which 3 words contain the same root word?
describe(or description), prescribe, and inscribe
Question of the revising stage of the writing process(different from the other) asks what the author should focus on in this stage.
a. Check for spelling errors
b. Add supporting detail correcting spelling is part of editing.
c. Write down ideas
add supporting detail
Read excerpt about a boy experience with the rain, identify a simile.
The answer started with the word like, it was obvious.
VERY OBVIOUS. There is only one option using the word “LIKE”…
(Like a massive army marching on the trees)
**Simile: a figure of speech that compares two different things, usually using the words like or as.
What sentence would be the best starter if describing/writing a process?
How long would it take to travel to space?
How long does it take for a glacier to melt/or form (don’t remember wording) (Pay attention to the word “GLACIER”)
