Vocabulary
Potpourri
Author's Purpose
Generalizations
Make an Inference
100
What vocabulary word also means liberty?
What is independence?
100
A town that once was thriving with gold miners but is now vacant.
What is a ghost town.
100
What is the genre of Ghost Towns?
What is expository non-fiction.
100
Tell a fact from the text to support this generalization: Many people had to abandon towns in the western United States in the 1880s.
What is the towns became ghost towns because no one was living there. there was no more gold and silver to be found. they had to find another way to make money.
100
Why did most towns fail and become ghost towns?
What is they ran out of gold/silver/ money making resources.
200
This vocabulary word means trade or money.
What is economic?
200
The state in which the ghost town of Cripple Creek was located.
What is Colorado.
200
What is the author's purpose?
What is to inform/explain or to entertain.
200
Make a generalization about a ghost town.
What is : All ghost towns have been abandoned.
200
"Few very respectable looking women have ventured over to see us." Is this a fact or opinion?
What is an opinion
300
Vocabulary word that means "filled beyond its limits".
What is overrun?
300
What does boomed mean? "These communities boomed as miners sough gold, silver and copper, but died out when all of the ore was panned from the streams."
What is grew quickly or became overrun.
300
What is the most likely reason the author wrote this selection?
What is to teach readers how quickly busy towns could die.
300
"A few people got rich, but a lot of others didn't." Is this a valid or faulty generalization?
What is valid generalization.
300
What happened to most towns if the railroad did not run close by?
What is they became ghost towns?
400
A synonym for the word vacant.
What is empty?
400
The first major U.S. discovery of silver ore (lode), located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada.
What is The Comstock Lode.
400
Why did the author use quotes?
What is to make the selection more interesting.
400
What is a generalization you can make about the railroads that came through these towns?
What is "the railroads were one of the most important reasons the towns grew and people settled in the American West".
400
What is the selection mostly about?
What is western towns that didn't survive.
500
To write awkwardly.
What is scrawled?
500
What is a mercantile?
What is a general store
500
Why did the author use a quote from Mark Twain?
What is to give a well known or credible source in his writing/ makes a convincing argument/ adds interest to the description.
500
Make a generalization from these facts: -Men outnumbered women 9 to 1. -The frontier would have never become settled without women and children. - Very few respectable women have ventured to our town. - 1 woman living in Breckenridge, 1 in Gold Run.
What is "most towns actively sought (wanted) women to move to their towns".
500
What is one way Phoenix and Denver were said to be alike in our reading selection?
What is they both grew and survived.
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