8th grade mid year review game

Who has been displaced?

• Tammy, who moved to a new apartment in a different city

• Joe is visiting Bali on vacation

• Charlie lives in a college dorm

• Anya, who is temporarily living with her godmother because her house was hit by a hurricane

A ship will founder if…

• It is being built by Italians

• It runs into a sharp, spikey cliff

• it sails through a storm

• It is docked in Port Canaveral

An insightful person will…

• Act without thinking

• Have a solid understanding of people and their situations

• Make decisions without thinking about the future

• Jump to conclusions often

How might you exploit a power outage?

• Offer help to a neighbor

• Find out why it happened

• Be prepared with candles

• Use it as an excuse for why they can’t do your chores

A logical argument…

• Is completely opinion

• Lacks evidence

• Is impossible to understand

• Makes sense

Read this sentence: Ms. B keeps telling James that “I’m going to butter your biscuit” is not a civil way to talk to your peers. Civil means

• Adult

• Helpful

• Polite

• Kind

Stella made a feeble attempt at a 3 pointer. Feeble means

• Awkward

• Sincere

• Weak

• Late

Our galaxy is made up of….

• The sun, Jupiter and its moons

• The big dipper and andromeda constellations

• Only Earth and the moon

• Tons of stars and planets

Which situation might preclude Ms. B from getting to work on time?

• She forgot her Coke Zero

• It’s her wedding anniversary

• She has an observation today

• She broke both legs and an arm

Which is an expedition?

• A trip to the corner store

• A ride in an MTA bus to school

• A trip down the Nile River

• A long visit to grandma’s house