Rica sub test 1 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

"Let one hundred flowers bloom" - ANSWER-Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regi...

RICA Subtest 2, question and answer, graded A+ Word Consciousness Awareness of words and their meanings as well as interest in their usage. Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) Informal language: most basic, everyday speech that is familiar to students Academic Vocabulary (Tier 2) Formal language: high frequency words that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority) Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) Subject specific vocabulary: fou...