Vocabulary
Walking in a line.
What is a procession?
The narrator's name
What is Martin?
The Native American nation that grandfather belonged to.
What is the Sioux or Lakota?
The reason grandfather dresses nicely when Martin's friends visit.
What is he wants Martin to be proud of him?
An aromatic plant
What is Sacred Sage?
Holy and religious
What is sacred?
Who embarrassed Grandpa by embracing him?
Who is the mom?
The thing that Martin was required to place in the medicine bag
What is sacred sage?
The reason grandfather's son didn't get the bag.
What is because he died in a war?
The tribe of Native Americans that Martin's family belonged to.
What is the Sioux?
Tiredness from work or stress
What is fatigue?
The younger sister
Who is Cheryl?
The emotion the children felt because of their grandfather and their friends.
What is embarrassment?
The reason mom could not receive the medicine bag.
What is because she is female?
The central idea or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
Not wanting to do something.
What is reluctant?
Who Martin was worried about impressing
Who are his friends?
The feeling that brought Grandpa to visit his family?
What is loneliness?
The reason Martin almost did not inherit the medicine bag.
What is because he carried the last name of a white man?
Details such as examples, explanations, or reasons that support the main idea.
What are supporting details?
The expression you make when you do something mildly embarrassing.
What is sheepish?
Died after completing his final task
Who is the grandfather?
These are analyzed to determine how a character changes in a story.
What is a character's thoughts, feelings, and actions?
The reason the tradition of passing down the medicine bag ends with Martin.
What is because his family line ends with him?
A broken piece of an iron kettle, a pebble from the butte and a piece of the sacred sage
What are the items in the medicine bag?