A Mountain Journey
Conroy, the main character is travelling in this season.
What is winter?
Who is narrating the story, "Afrika Road"?
What is the road? What is Afrika Road?
This key term relates to the head or skull.
What is cranial?
If you can picture a scene in your mind while you read, you are using this comprehension strategy.
What is visualizing?
What is an axe? (Double bitted axe)
Conroy, the main character, is travelling in order to...
What is- to sell his furs?
The story "Afrika Road" takes place in this nation.
What is South Africa?
This key term relates to anything that has the ability to float.
What is buoyant?
If you can relate or connect to something in a story as you read, you are using this comprehension strategy.
What is connecting? What is connection?
What is a Volkswagon van?
The man in the story "Mountain Journey" was travelling using what equipment?
What are skis?
In the story, the narrator describes seeing this group of people in khaki uniforms, raising wooden guns in protest.
Who were the school children?
This is the medical term for stitches.
What are sutures?
If you use clues the author provides, to predict what might happen, this strategy is known as...
What is to 'infer'?
The name of the narrator in this story.
Who is Daniel?
Siwashing means....
What is to camp without a tent?
This type of liquid is poured at the end of this story.
What is petrol or gasoline?
To wander without a path, much like the movement of a river.
What is, to meander?
To question the choices the author has made in crafting their story, this is an important comprehension strategy.
What is questionning?
The narrator smashed this item when he learned of his brother's death.
What are his glasses?
A mackinaw refers to...
What is a plaid, wool coat?
The people of South Africa were protesting these policies.
What was apartheid?
This means "unconquerable" or "undefeatable."
What is invictus?
Thinking about the overall meaning of the story and putting together your thoughts at the end of your reading.
What is synthesizing?
Name the event that had most likely scarred the parents in this story.
What is the death of the brother?