Dinosaur Ghosts
Close Reading Strategies
Hammurabi's Code
100
What are the remains of dinosaurs and other organic beings called?
What is a fossil?
100
If you see an important fact or vocabulary word, you can do this.
What is circle or underline?
100
Punishments in Hammurabi's Code varied based on this factor.
What is social status/class?
200
This is the name of the paleontologist who was studying the dinosaurs in Dinosaur Ghosts.
Who is Edwin Colbert?
200
The first step to close reading, after you read through it once, is to do this.
What is numbering the paragraphs?
200
This is a series of rules or laws.
What is a code?
300
This is a scientific guess or theory.
What is a hypothesis?
300
If you mark "??" while reading a piece of text, it usually means this.
What is I don't understand?
300
This is the exact number of laws in Hammurabi's Code.
What are 282 laws?
400
This is the location of Colbert's excavation that resulted in many dinosaur fossils being found.
Where is Ghost Ranch?
400
In close reading, a "!" usually means this.
What is a "wow" statement?
400
This is the empire that Hammurabi ruled over from 1792 - 1750 BC.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
500
This is the name of the dinosaur featured in Dinosaur Ghosts.
What is Coelophysis?
500
What are the symbols called that are used when close reading?
What are annotation marks?
500
Hammurabi's Code is based on what old saying?
What is an eye for an eye?
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