What Am I?
I’m a flat area of land with lots of grass and very few trees.
What is a prairie?
I moved to a new land to build a home and a better life.
Who is a homesteader?
Use “scarce” in a sentence about water.
Water was scarce on the prairie, so families had to carry it from far away.
Families had to __________ to life on the prairie by building new kinds of houses.
What is adapt?
I’m thick grass with roots and dirt. I was used like bricks to build houses.
What is sod?
I’m someone who had to get used to prairie life and live in a soddy.
Who is someone who adapted?
Use “vermin” in a sentence about sod houses.
Vermin like mice and bugs got into the sod house walls.
The land stretched far and wide. It was a big, grassy __________.
What is prairie?
I’m a small animal or bug that causes problems in homes.
What is vermin?
I’m someone who faced hardship, vermin, and a leaky roof!
Who is Emma? (or a prairie homesteader)?
Use “adapted” in a sentence about prairie life.
Families adapted to life on the prairie by building sod houses.
In the soddy, the floor turned to mud and __________ came in through the walls.
What is vermin?
I’m something that makes life very hard, like a storm or not enough food.
What is a hardship?
I’m the person who built a house out of sod and had to fetch water from far away.
Who is a homesteader?
Use “hardship” in a sentence about the weather.
The freezing winters and hot summers were a big hardship for homesteaders.
Because there wasn’t much water, it was very __________.
What is scarce?
Emma’s family moved west and faced many problems. What two vocabulary words describe what they had to do and what they went through?
What is Adapted and hardship?