Vocabulary
Fact or Opinion
Response Notes
Authors
Montage
100
To convey (someone or something) somewhere secretly and illicitly.
What is smuggle?
100
Momaday is the best Native American writer of the 20th century.
What is an "opinion?"
100
To use my "minds eye" to see what is happening in a story or reading selection.
What is "visualization?"
100
I wrote the "Gettysburg Address."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Thoreau believed we should all live this way.
What is "simply?"
200
Thoreau, someone that lives close to nature, or a bird watcher.
What is a naturalist?
200
Highlighting is an active reading strategy that we have practiced.
What is a "fact?"
200
To underline or otherwise draw attention to a specific passage in a reading selection.
What is "mark or highlight?"
200
I wrote "My America."
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
Momaday says these people could help fix some of the world's environmental problems.
Who are "Indians."
300
A slaves life was very difficult. I was filled with this.
What is oppression?
300
Slave names often indicated who bought the slaves.
What is a "fact?"
300
To ask about something in a reading selection that I do not understand.
What is "question?"
300
I wrote "Living Like Weasels."
Who is Annie Dillard?
300
I wrote "The Day of Jubilee."
Who is Velma Maia Thomas?
400
This is a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
What is reverence?
400
Langston Hughes often expressed his dislike for African Americans in his writings.
What is an "opinion?"
400
To make real life connections between my reading and the real world.
What is "react and connect?"
400
I wrote "Confronting Columbus Again."
Who is N. Scott Momaday?
400
I lived at Walden Pond as I journalled about nature.
Who is Thoreau?
500
Prompted by or resulting from nature, unlearned, coming naturally.
What is instinctively?
500
Discrimination of all types is a terrible thing.
What is a "fact?"
500
To verify understanding about a term or concept within a reading selection.
What is "clarify?"
500
I wrote "Higher Laws."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
Dillard recommends holding on to one's "one necessity."
What is "one's calling in life?"
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