Vocabulary
Which word is a synonym for carved?
What is whittled?
Which word is a synonym for shook?
What is jostled?
How did Ben learn to read?
Ben's father knew just enough to teach Ben.
After Ben's father was sold, Ben kept learning by reading everything around him.
Why did the Navajos have to wear a blindfold when they were learning about radios?
What is so they could fix them at night without any light to work by?
I bought my cat a new toy.
He is happy playing with an old piece of string.
I bought my cat a new toy, but he is happy playing with an old piece of string.
Which word is an antonym for sparse?
What is dense?
Which word is an antonym for approach?
What is flee?
Why did the men in the slave prison cheer for Ben?
What is they had never heard a black man read?
Why do you think the Emancipation Proclamation is so hard to read?
What is because it was written a long time ago
and
because it is an official government document?
Chloe slept for eleven hours. She wanted to sleep even longer.
Chloe slept for eleven hours; she wanted to sleep even longer.
Which word is an synonym for end?
What is abolition?
Which word is a synonym for salesperson?
What is clerk?
What made Ben and the people in the slave prison feel hopeful?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation and its promise that they could someday be free?
What are the two selections in this lesson?
What is a narrative (story) about a boy named Ben and a copy of the historical document The Emancipation Proclamation?
The island shook for several minutes.
Then the volcano erupted.
The island shook for several minutes, and then the volcano erupted.
Which word is a synonym for named?
What is designated?
Which word is an synonym for taught?
What is apprenticed?
What is the author's purpose in writing Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation?
(hint: can have more than one).
What is to entertain with a story and to inform using true facts and information?
Why is there no record of Benjamin Holmes' birth and death date?
What is because the government did not keep proper records of the birth and death dates of enslaved people?
Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?
Was Sherlock Holmes only a character in a book?
Was Sherlock Holmes a real person, or was he only a character in a book?
Which word is a synonym for revolt?
What is rebellion?
What is the name of the document that declared all enslaved people would be freed?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
How does Mr. Bleeker feel about Ben? How can you tell?
What is he likes and respects Ben because he trusts Ben to go on errands all over town and because he said, "I don't know what it is about Ben . . . He just seems to know so much.”
How did Ben's childhood contribute to his accomplishments later in life?
What is
Ben learns to read and write as a child.
Most African Americans were not able to read and write at that time because they were not allowed to learn.
Ben's father taught him to read and his mother encouraged him to write. Benjamin kept teaching himself to read and write.
Later, Ben went to college and became a teacher and a news correspondent.
Ben probably achieved so much in life because he taught himself to read and write at a young age.
The guide stopped.
She pointed toward the hill.
The guide stopped; she pointed toward the hill.