Vocabulary
Literary tools
Encounters
Culture Clash
When Cultures Meet
100

Name a custom in your country.

Wearing traditional dress: ao dai

100

How do you figure out the meaning of an idiom?


    Describe the mental image you formed to visualize the meaning of the idiom.

100

 Kim (celebrate/celebrates) her birthday in June. (Choose correct verb form in present tense)

celebrates

100

My mother (fish) from the boat.  Choose correct form in past tense.

fished

100

I (make) a beautiful wedding cake.  Change to past tense (irregular)

made

200

Define desire.

Something you really want.

200

What does it mean to infer something?

Draw a conclusion.

200

 Why does the boy ask the chief not to welcome the visitors?

   

 He fears them because he thinks his dream was a warning that something bad will happen.

200

 What happened to both the Spanish and Aztec cultures?


They both survived and blended to make a new one.

200

What did Columbus find instead of a trade route to Asia?

Americas

300

What is the antonym (opposite) of blend?

separate

300

What does the idiom mean...the Spanish eyed the city hungrily?

They desired the city.

300

 How do you know the strangers treat the people badly?


They steal some men and parrots then at the end they steal their land and way of life.

300

What did many Aztecs die from and how did the disease come to the Aztecs?

Smallpox spread by the Spaniards.

300

How did the horse change the lives of the Plains Indians?


    -Could move on to the Plains thus making hunting buffalo easier and safer.

400

What is the antonym (opposite) of defeat?

win or victory

400

 What is personification?


he attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

400

Why does the boy forget about his dream for a while?

He is enjoying the visitors and gifts.

400

What events followed Cortez’s arrival at the Aztec capital?


    Moctezuma traded gifts but then was kidnapped and the Spanish stole gold.

400

What does historical photographs show?

Show the real time and place being discussed.

500

The road looks like it goes on ..........

forever

500

 What is the difference between a metaphor and an idiom?


    An idiom is a group of words that together communicate a different meaning than what words mean by themselves.  A metaphor is figurative language that compares two unlike things.

500

What warning might have told the people that the strangers were not friendly?

The strangers stuck flags in the land and kept touching the Taino's golden armbands and nose rings.

500

How were the blending of the Aztec and Spanish cultures good and bad?

The blending was good because new traditions were formed.  It was bad because each culture lost some of its original identity.

500

 How did the horses spread across the Plains?


    When settlers left, some horses joined with wild herds.

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