Nouns & Verbs
Identify the nouns in this sentence: Cats can't play basketball.
Hint: there are two!
Cats and basketball
What is a synonym of expedition?
A. Climb
B. Journey
C. Expend
B. Journey
What part of a paragraph is the "bottom bun" of the paragraph burger?
The "bottom bun" is the ______________.
The "bottom bun" is the concluding sentence.
Who did Sacagawea carry on her back during the expedition?
Her son, Jean-Baptiste.
What was Sitting Bull's job?
He was a chief.
Identify the nouns: The weather was nice so my family ate lunch at the park.
Hint: there are 4!
Nouns: weather, family, lunch, park.
What is a synonym of comical?
A. Frightful
B. Silly
C. Wonderful
B. Silly
Name TWO strategies to put something you read into your own words.
Answers: Take out details, use synonyms, combine sentences, change structure of the sentence.
Why did Sacagawea go to North Dakota?
She was kidnapped by the Hidatsa tribe.
What was the name of the famous battle that Sitting Bull won?
Battle of the Little Bighorn
A noun is a person, place or thing and a verb is an action.
What is a synonym?
Synonyms are words that ______________.
Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
The meat, cheese, lettuce (middle of the burger) represent which part of a paragraph?
The meat, cheese, lettuce represent the _________.
The meat, cheese, lettuce represent the supporting sentences.
Name one thing Sacagawea did to help the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Many answers!
The U.S. government wanted Native Americans to move to a certain place to live and Sitting Bull did not want to go but eventually did. What are the areas of land that the government moved Native Americans to called?
Reservation
Identify the verbs: I love reading so I ordered some books and they all came yesterday!
Hint: there are 3!
Verbs: love, ordered, came
What is a synonym of wonderful?
A. Amusing
B. Outraged
C. Marvellous
C. Marvellous
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Name one thing Sacagawea did to help the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Many answers!
Where was Sitting Bull born?
Sitting Bull was born in South Dakota.
Identify the verb and the nouns: The bicycle was left out in the rain.
Nouns: bicycle, rain
Verb: was
Which word is NOT a synonym of presence?
A. Existence
B. Attendance
C. Gifts
D. Being there
C. Gifts
Name two concluding sentence starters. (Phrases you can put at the beginning of your concluding sentence).
All in all
As you can see
Overall
In conclusion
Which tribe was Sacagawea? (Her native tribe, not the tribe that kidnapped her!)
Shoshone
Sitting Bull was very outspoken. Who did he speak out against? What did they do to him?
He spoke out against the government so they arrested and killed him.