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What is "Checks and Balances?"
The system of government that limits the power of each branch, ensuring that no one branch takes more power than the others.
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What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This part of the brain is located behind your forehead, and is responsible for reasoning and concentration. It is also the last part to develop in teens.
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What is Narrative Writing?
Dialogue, Blocking, Character Description, setting description, figures of speech, interior monologue and flashback should be included in this mode of writing.
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What is Native American Migration/How the first Natives came?
By crossing a land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska, across the Bering Sea, then eastward to Canada, and south to the Americas.
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Why do prisons get more money than schools?
This happens because prisoners can work for private companies, making things to sell without getting paid, and students cannot.
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What is the "Bill of Rights?"
The first ten amendments made to the Constitution that protect the powers of the people.
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What is "Hidden trauma?"
These are events and situations that can disrupt a teen's learning, but are often overlooked by most people.
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What is Expository/essay writing?
Introduction, body paragraphs, strong evidence, conclusion, and transition words/phrases should be included in this mode of writing.
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What countries took over Native American's Land?
People from Spain, France, and Great Britain did this.
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What is the "School to Prison Pipeline?"
This is the idea that schools are set up to push some students into a life of poverty, failure, and crime, by not addressing their needs. It's why prisons base their future populations on 3rd grade testing.
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What is "The Amendment Process?"
The system of government that allows laws to be changed over time, and makes the process difficult but doable.
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What is "trauma?"
This affects the teen brain by chemically changing the already-underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, making concentration and common sense even harder to use.
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What is a paragraph?
this is made up of 5 sentences or more.
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What is the main reason why Native land was acquisitioned?
The main reason why this happened is because nearly 90% of the population died from diseases brought from Europe.
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What is the main reason for class jobs?
This classroom process is done for many reasons in Mrs. Lathan's class, but mostly to show students that every person's work matters in an economic system.
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What is "The Federal System?"
This is the system of government that allows each state to have rules specific to their needs, as long as the rules are constitutional.
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What is Class Trauma Survey?
This survey showed that most peers who have experienced hidden trauma in our class, also have difficulty with some school skills.
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What is CUPS?
This acronym stands for Capitalization, usage, punctuation and spelling. You should edit four different times looking for each of the error types.
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What is the Cherokee Nation?
This nation of people were forced from their land by the Texas Rangers, and before that, they were illegaly forced to walk 3,000 miles from their land by the US Army.
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Who is Thomas Sams?
This character had enough sense to ask to come back to school after he was kicked out.
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What is "Commander-in-Chief?"
This is another title for the President.
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What is the "Achievement Gap?"
This is the large space between numbers of White students disciplined and/or passing OAKS Tests, versus number of Black students disciplined and/or passing state tests.
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What is a homophone?
This is two or more words that have the same sound, but a different spelling and meaning. They can change the whole context of a sentence.
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Who is Martin?
This boy was embarrassed by his grandfather, until he shared a traditional heirloom with him, that was for the men of the family only.
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Who is Ms. Levias?
This person changed Mr. Clark's attitude by informing him that he was not the only one who was sacrificing and working hard.
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