Text Features
Statue of Liberty Facts
Vocabulary
Story Details
Story Comprehension
100

The genre of this story

Narrative Non-fiction
100

Statue of Liberty's location

New York Harbor

100

Definition of colossal

really big

100

Amount of crates Liberty was delivered in 

214

100

Wrote a poem about the Statue of Liberty

Emma Lazarus

200

Author and Illustrator

Doreen Rappaport

Matt Tavares

200

Amount of steps to climb to climb to Liberty's crown

354

200

A person who has served in the armed forces

veterans

200

Amount of parts the third model was divided into before being enlarged

21

200

Reason that workers did not complain when building the pedestal 

there were no jobs in the villages

300

Number of people's perspective shared in this story 

10

300

Engraved on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty

July 4, 1776

300

Definition of accomplished

to do something successfully

300

Person who suggested the idea of the monument

Edouard De Labuolaye

300

What happened to the statue of Liberty on it's way from France

storms caused labels to fall off, crates to break, pieces were damaged

400

Supplemental text title

The New Colossus

400

Found at the feet of Liberty

A broken shackle and chain
400
A building, statue, or other object to honor a person or event

monument

400

Size of Bartholdi's clay model

4 feet

400

How was the weather on the day that Liberty was unveiled

it was raining

500

Purpose of the text

to inform 

500

Year that Liberty was brought to NY

1886

500

Definition of an auction

a public sale in which things are sold to the person who offers the most money
500

Amount of time it took to create Liberty

More than 20 years

500
Why Liberty's day was important to Jose Marti

signified liberty and Jose Marti had been deported from Cuba for fighting for liberty

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