HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
The opposite of up
What is down?
This means “to listen with your ears.”
What is hear?
The personal narrative tells about something that happened to whom.
What is the writer/narrator?
Economic opportunity.
What is a chance to gain wealth, resources, or trade?
European countries competed with one another for land and power.
What is Glory — competition?
This word completes the sentence.
“I ___ my name on my paper.”
What is write?
This means “this location”?
What is here?
The point of view that often uses the words I, me, my, and we.
What is first person?
Europeans explored new lands because they wanted to find valuable ______.
What are resources and wealth?
Competition means this in the context of European exploration.
What is countries competing for land, power, and control?
This means “humans” or “persons”
What are people?
Choose the correct word:
“The king's ___ lasted for 20 years.”
What is reign?
A personal narrative tells about a real experience from someone's ______.
What is life?
The motivation where an explorer travels to find gold and other valuable resources.
What is Gold or Economic Opportunity?
European countries wanted to claim more land and increase their territory.
What is God — expansion?
This word completes the sentence.
“I know ___ answer is correct.”
What is their?
This word means “correct”?
What is right?
A detail that would BEST help a reader understand how a narrator felt.
A. “The room had four windows.”
B. “My hands shook as I walked onto the stage.”
C. “The clock was on the wall.”
What is “My hands shook as I walked onto the stage.”
This is an example of an economic opportunity.
A. Finding new sources of wealth
B. Competing with another country
C. Spreading a religion
What is finding new sources of wealth?
“Spain wanted to increase its territory and control more land.”
What is God — Expansion?
Complete the sentence:
“The scientist studied the ___ of the experiment.”
What is number?
Fill in the blanks:
___ going to put ___ books over ___.”
What is They're, their, there?
The writer says, “My heart raced, and I could hear my shoes pounding against the floor.” What does this evidence MOST likely show about the narrator?
What is the narrator was nervous or excited?
Which motivation: An explorer tells the king, “This land may have valuable resources that we can trade and use.”
What is Gold — economic opportunity?
An explorer says, “Our country needs to claim this land before another European country does. We need to increase our power and territory.”
Beware: This has two motivations.
What are Glory — Competition AND God — Expansion?