ELA Vocabulary
What does gist mean?
The main idea of a text or story
Take a look at the map. Where are the people of the Eastern Woodlands located? Where are the West and Central Africans located?
A- Eastern Woodlands
B- West and Central Africa
What is an example of a primary source?
A. A school textbook about world history
B. Stories passed through generations about the past
C. Artifacts like stone figurines found by archaeologists
D. An online article about the history of a country
C.
What does trade mean?
When people or countries exchange things, like buying and selling goods or services.
What is a quote?
Repeating someone else's exact words or writing using special punctuation called "quotation marks."
Read the information below. Then answer the question: Based on the passage, which of the following statements about West African cultural groups is true:
The story of West Africa is not just the story of kings and empires but of the many common people who raised the food, made the tools and mined the gold. The majority of people of Ghana lived in small farming compounds. These were made up of a man, his wife, his sons’ families and his daughters’ families. A compound usually had a group of houses around a central courtyard shared by the families. People also belonged to a clan similar to the Eastern Woodlands American Indians. Family compounds made up a village led by a village leader. Villages were connected and traded with each other.
Family, clan and village were very important to the people of West Africa. Several villages made up a small kingdom led by a king. These small kingdoms made up the empire of Ghana led by a king.
A. People in West African cultural groups were tied together by farming.
B. West African cultural groups differed greatly from other groups in the Americas.
C. West African people lived separately from the rest of their families and cultural groups.
D. West African cultural leaders were generally farmers without a family or clan.
A. People in West African cultural groups were tied together by farming.
What is an example of a secondary source?
A. A school textbook about world history
B. Stories passed through generations about the past
C. Artifacts like stone figurines found by archaeologists
D. An online article about the history of a country
A B and D
What is an ancestor?
An ancestor is a family member who lived a long time ago, like your great-great-grandparents or even further back.
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
They both compare two things together but a simile uses the words "like" or "as."
Metaphor- He is a wild lion.
Simile- He is as wild as a lion.
Read the information below. Then select the 3 inferences that can be made about the Mali Empire based on the information in the paragraph.
Griots were important people in the Mali Empire. These people had many duties. They were not only entertainers but also oral historians. Griots were educated and wise. Young villagers would learn about the history of their village their family from the griots. They were very important to the village.
A. Education was a key factor to being a historian in the Mali Empire.
B. The Mali Empire valued younger generations due to passing oral history on to them.
C. Griots could provide knowledge to people throughout Africa.
D. Preserving the history of the village was very important to the Mali Empire.
A B and D
C is incorrect because griots provide knowledge to the people of their VILLAGE, not all of Africa.
What is a clan?
A large extended family descending from one common ancestor.
What does diversity mean?
The presence of a wide variety of different things or people. Everyone is different and unique in their own ways.
What are human rights?
The basic rights and freedoms everyone has simply for being human.
Almost all Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) property was controlled by clans – groups of families who shared the same ancestor. Women were the leaders of their clans. Among the Iroquois, it was women who decided how the land would be used and who would use it. When a man married he moved into his wife’s longhouse and lived with her family. Children took their clan name from their mother. No important decision could be made without the approval of the clan mother. Although the leaders of each village were men, it was the clan mother who chose.
A. As village leaders, men held more power in Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) culture than women.
B. Women had important roles and powers in Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) culture.
C. There is no difference between men and women’s roles.
B. Women had important roles and powers in Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) culture.
What is a compound?
A family consisting of three or more spouses and their offspring.
What does Indigenous People mean?
The first people who lived in a particular country or region.
What is an inference?
An assumption based on evidence and reasoning.
Which 3 sentences from the text gives evidence to support the argument “the Iroquois set up a way to give each group of the Confederacy a voice in making decisions?”
(1) In order to keep the Great Peace, the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) people developed the Great Law. (2) This was a set of rules by which the Iroquois people lived. (3) They also set up a way for each of the groups in the Iroquois Confederacy to have a voice in making decisions. (4) Representatives from all of the clans met at the Grand Council. (5) These representatives were chosen by the clan mothers. (6) The Grand Council made decisions through discussion and compromise, or settled a dispute by each side agree to give up part of what it wanted. (7) The Grand Council continues to make decisions for the Iroquois today.
A. Sentence 1
B. Sentence 2
C. Sentence 4
D. Sentence 5
E. Sentence 6
F. Sentence 7
C. Sentence 4
D. Sentence 5
E. Sentence 6
A West African storyteller and musician who preserves the oral history of a family, village, or tribe.
What does culture mean?
A group of people's way of life, including their shared beliefs, traditions, language, food, and art.