VOCABULARY
What word means a difficult or challenging situation?
What is adversity?
What major historical event caused many of the hardships in Unit 5?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What type of text is The Grapes of Wrath?
What is literary fiction? or narrative?
What type of text is Survival in the Storm?
What is a diary or historical fiction?
What type of text is Against the Odds?
What is an expository text?
What is a problem or barrier someone faces called?
What is an obstacle?
What natural problem helped cause the Dust Bowl?
What is severe drought?
What obstacle do families face in The Grapes of Wrath?
What is dust storms destroying their crops?
Who is the narrator of the diary?
Who is Grace Edwards?
What is the purpose of an expository text?
What is to explain or inform?
What do we call the way a person deals with a problem?
What is a coping strategy?
What farming issue helped make the Dust Bowl worse?
What are poor farming practices? (over farming or cattle grazing)
How do families cope with adversity in The Grapes of Wrath?
What is migrating to find work?
What challenge does Grace face during the Dust Bowl?
What are dust storms and fear?
How does Against the Odds explain adversity differently than the other texts?
What is by using facts instead of personal experiences?
What word means continuing to try even when things are hard?
What is perseverance?
What happened to many farms during the Dust Bowl?
What is crops were destroyed?
What theme is shown in the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath?
What is perseverance during hardship?
What coping strategy does Grace use most often?
What is writing in her diary?
What is evidence?
What is information from the text that supports an idea?
What word means the ability to recover or bounce back after hardship?
What is resilience?
Why were many families forced to leave their homes during the Dust Bowl?
What is they could no longer survive or make a living?
What helps families survive emotionally in the text?
What is family support?
Why is Grace’s perspective important?
What is it shows the emotional impact of adversity on children?
What is the essential question of Unit 5?
What is “How do people overcome adversity?”