Module 5 Vocabulary
This word means a serious or dangerous situation that needs quick action.
What is crisis?
You make this when you use clues from the text plus what you already know to figure something out.
What is an inference?
Many children during the Great Depression had to do this instead of going to school so they could help their families.
What is work?
The Great Depression was a time when many people lost these two things.
What are their jobs and money?
When an author gives clues about what will happen later, this technique is called this.
What is foreshadowing?
This word describes someone who keeps trying even when things are hard.
What is perseverant (or determined)?
This is the type of evidence you should use when answering a comprehension question about a Module 5 story.
What is text evidence?
Some children’s families could not afford new clothes, so kids often wore shoes and clothing in this condition.
What is worn-out or with holes and patches?
These places gave out free hot meals to hungry people, including many children and families, during the Great Depression.
What are soup kitchens?
When an author describes the setting of the Great Depression in detail, it helps build this.
What is mood?
This word means to suffer or experience hardship, especially over time.
What is endure?
If a character stands in a long breadline and the author describes their empty pockets, you can infer this about the character’s situation.
What is that they are poor or struggling to get food?
When schools closed or families moved often, one big challenge children faced with their education was this.
What is missing school or changing schools a lot?
What does CCC mean and what did the program do?
What is Civilian Conservation Corps and it helped young men learn skills to better there future.
In an informational text like “A Crisis in History,” the author may include dates and specific events to develop this.
What is central idea or main idea?
This word means a group of people, often a government group, that makes important decisions.
What is agencies?
When the narrator in a Module 5 text looks back on earlier events and explains their meaning, this is an example of this type of structure.
What is a reflection or flashback? (memory moment)
Some children traveled in freight trains or moved from place to place with their families. What was one reason they did this?
What is to search for jobs, food, or a better place to live?
Name one way families tried to survive during the Great Depression.
What is sharing housing, growing food, taking any job, or traveling to find work?
A writer might use a first-person narrator to make the story feel this way for the reader.
What is more personal or up close?
This word means a place of safety, especially during a difficult time in history.
What is refuge?
A student claims, “Bud is brave.” Name two specific kinds of text evidence they should look for to support that claim.
What are his actions (what he does) and his words or thoughts?
Explain one way children showed resilience during the Great Depression, even when life was very hard.
What is they kept helping their families, stayed hopeful about the future, and adapted to new responsibilities?
Explain how the historical background of the Great Depression helps you better understand a character’s choices in Module 5 texts.
What is that knowing the hard times explains why characters take risks, move often, or accept any work or food they can get?
Explain one way an author can show theme without stating it directly.
What is by showing characters’ actions, consequences, and problems that repeat across the story?