Villages in the Sky (Ancestral Puebloans)
This ancient people built cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde and are now referred to by this name.
Who are the Ancestral Puebloans?
President Kennedy introduced this program in 1961 to initiate an era of service and volunteerism.
What is the Peace Corps?
The main character in Calvino's story wakes to discover his city has been replaced by this.
What is a white sheet of paper (or snow)?
Robert Bridges uses this poetic device in lines 1-9 to create a soothing effect as snow falls on the city.
What is alliteration?
Sarah Thomas completed this incredible feat by swimming across the English Channel this many times without stopping.
What is four times?
Richard Wetherill and Charles Mason discovered these structures while searching for lost cattle in 1888.
What are cliff dwellings?
According to research, the rate of volunteering for people over age 65 has increased by this percentage since 1974.
What is 64 percent?
Marcovaldo felt this emotion as he walked through the snow-covered streets, freed from the normal restrictions of the city.
What is freedom?
In the poem, the snow "hides difference, making unevenness even" by covering the city with this.
What is whiteness?
To protect her skin from the cold water, Thomas covered her body in this substance.
What is grease?
This underground circular room in cliff dwellings was used for ceremonial purposes and stayed at 50 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
What is a kiva?
A 2013 study found a correlation between doing this many hours of volunteer work per year and having lower blood pressure.
What is 200 hours?
This character was hired as a snow-shoveler and felt grateful for the temporary employment the snow provided
Who is Sigismondo?
The poet describes schoolboys doing this with the "crystal manna" of newly fallen snow.
What is snowballing (or freezing their tongues)?
In "A Surprise Stop," Natalia's favorite artist whose work inspired her was this famous American painter.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
The Ancestral Puebloans used these structures to direct rainwater to their crops in the dry Mesa Verde climate.
What are check dams?
According to a London School of Economics study, people who volunteered once a week were this percentage more likely to report being "very happy" compared to those who never volunteered.
What is 16 percent?
Marcovaldo's job at work was to shovel snow off this part of the building.
What is the sidewalk?
The poem suggests that despite the beauty of the snow, workers eventually return to this activity.
What is their toil/labor?
In the Philadelphia skyscraper game story, Frank Lee used the building's lights to display this classic video game in 2013.
What is Pong?
Around this year, the Ancestral Puebloans left Mesa Verde and settled in areas now home to modern Pueblo tribes.
What is 1270?
A 2012 study found that volunteers who were motivated by this type of reason did NOT live any longer than those who did not volunteer at all.
What are self-oriented reasons?
The irony in paragraph 8 shows that Sigismondo's work was being erased by this person's efforts.
Who is Marcovaldo?
The speaker's attitude toward the snow is revealed through this type of language in lines 15-16, emphasizing how the senses are affected.
What is figurative language?
The moon towers in Austin were added to this official list in 1976 to preserve their historical significance.
What is the National Register of Historic Places?