Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Setting
Context
clues
Anything Goes
100
sending by mail
What is mailing
100
"I feel as adventuresome as Daniel Boone" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is Simile?
100
This is the season that "Mailing May" is in.
What is Winter?
100
This is why May curled up by the stove.
What is keeping warm?
100
This is the name of the department store May went to asking for a job.
What is Alexander's Department store?
200
a slip of paper marked to show what it is or where it is to go
What is label?
200
It all started when Ma and Pa promised I could stay a (blank).
What is spell?
200
This is where the story ends.
What is Grandma Mary's house?
200
These are the two feelings May had as the train went down the mountain.
What is dizzy and weak in the stomach?
200
This is what Mr. Alexander gave May at the store.
What is a peppermint stick?
300
carried in
What is Carted?
300
The big black steam engine was already waiting, hissing and snorting like a ____ hog.
What is a boar?
300
This is the town the story begins in.
What is Grangeville?
300
This context clue allows us to conclude that May was happy when she saw Grandma Mary.
What is feeling warm inside?
300
This is how much it cost to send May from Grangeville to Lewiston as a package?
What is 53 cents?
400
a building where buses or trains pick up and unload passengers
What is station?
400
We crossed deep valleys on top of tall, spidery trestles that Leonard called "____ on ______."
What is Steel on stilts?
400
This is the name of the town the story ends in.
What is Lewiston?
400
Mailing May took place in this state.
What is Idaho?
400
This is the name of the person who watched May on the train.
Who is Leonard?
500
amazed; speechless with surprise
What is flabbergasted
500
Mr. Perkins compared May to a baby _____.
What is chick?
500
This is the name of the Canyon the train went down.
What is Lapwai?
500
This is why May started to feel better while she was on the train.
What is Mr. Morris scared the dizziness out of May?
500
This is the name of the train conductor.
Who is Mr. Morris?
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