Introductions
This word refers to the first paragraph in an essay that explains what the essay will be about.
What is The Introduction?
This word means, "to keep going," or, "to provide what is needed for someone or something to exist or continue."
What is Sustain?
This prefix means "before"
What is "Pre-"?
This term means "anything we interact with in ELA class, from novels, to short stories, to articles, and even videos!"
What is the Text?
This 7 year old girl is the main character of The Birchbark House. Her name means, "Little Frog," in Ojibwe.
Who is Omakakiins?
This can be a question or a statement that is meant to get the reader's attention. It is also the first sentence in your Introduction paragraph.
What is the Hook?
This word refers to a part of the environment that people, plants, or animals can use for what they need to live.
What are Natural Resources?
This meaning of this prefix can be seen in words like, Remix, Restore, Reread and Repeat.
What is Again?
This refers to an emotion that is shown in a paragraph or a story over all.
What is Mood?
Mikwam, or Dede to his children, is a fur trader. The meaning of his name aligns with the most dangerous part of his work.
What is Ice?
These two parts of the thesis make up proof paragraphs 1 and 2.
What is point 1 and point 2?
This word means, "knowledge or understanding based on information or experience."
What is Awareness?
This means the main word and carries the meaning of a word when combined with a prefix or suffix.
What is the Root Word?
How can Natural Resources Sustain people?
By giving them something to eat.
By being used as fuel or energy.
This year was very eventful for Omakakiins and her family, and is when a majority of the Novel's events take place.
What is 1847?
This gives background information on the topic to make sure the reader understands what we are writing about.
What is Context?
This word means "deserving of spiritual respect," or "holy to a specific group of people."
What is Sacred?
This suffix refers to words that have happened, or happen in the past tense.
What is "-ed"?
How can a person increase their awareness?
Through learning new information.
Through having new experiences.
This word refers to a group of Indigenous Americans that live in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. It includes the Ojibwe and other tribes.
What is Anishinaabe?
This is the central focus of your essay and contains main point 1 and main point 2. You could say it is the main point of the whole essay!
What is the thesis?
In Ojibwe communities, this refers to a "traditional story that helps explain a part of their culture."
What is an Aadizookaan?
The root "purus" means "to clean"
The suffix "-ify" means "to make"
They mean this phrase when they come together
What is to make clean?
This term means a lesson a character learns in a text that the author wants the readers to learn too.
What is a Theme?
Nookomis warns Omakakiins and Angeline to not be like this group of people who are expanding into their land.
Who are the Gichi-mookomaanag?