Vocabulary
Expository Text
Text Structure
Unknown Words
Visiting the Past
100
Periods of 10 years
What are decades?
100
This graphic source would be the best way to present information on pp. 252-253.
What is a diagram?
100
This text structure is used to present facts and details on pp. 252-253.
What is description?
100
These are broken bits of pottery.
What are potsherds?
100
This is a dugout home with three feet underground and the remainder built above ground using logs and willow branches.
What is a pithouse?
200
Quickly cooled molten lave
What is obsidian?
200
On page 255, this says "Why Did They Leave?" It is a feature of expository text.
What is the heading?
200
This is a good way to compare and contrast modern people and the ancient Puebloans.
What is a Venn Diagram or a T-chart?
200
On page 252, this is a group of individuals living together as part of a community.
What is society?
200
Pueblo people make this by moving a stick against wood very quickly to create heat, then catching shredded bark or fluff.
What is making fire?
300
These are niches
What is an alcove?
300
These help clarify information from the text on pp. 250-251.
What are photos?
300
Based on paragraph 1 on page 241, this type of text structure will be used for this section.
What is cause and effect?
300
This word on page 254 means to provide support or assistance.
What is aid?
300
This is learning about past cultures by trying out ancient methods of doing things on page 249.
What is experimental archaeology?
400
These are hand-held tools with flat pointed blades
What are trowels?
400
This tells where the ancient Puebloans used to live.
What is a map?
400
On page 246, the dialogue between Sara and Joe is an example of this text structure.
What is cause-and-effect?
400
"Once they tried it themselves, scientists realized the charred beams keep out termites." Find another word for charred.
What is burnt?
400
Women used manos, or hand-sized stones, to grind kernels on metates, or stone slabs.
What is grinding corn?
500
Native American Village
What is pueblo?
500
On page 245, there is a lot of dates related information. This graphic source would organize the data.
What is a timeline?
500
The author uses this form of text structure when Sara and Ken are talking on page 243.
What is dialogue?
500
On page 244, this is a an underground circular room.
What is a kiva?
500
This is forming coils out of clay, then scraping them smooth with a gourd.
What is making pottery?
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