Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
Suffixes
Main Idea & Details
Informational Text
Path to Paper Son
Louie Share Kim
100

$100: This word means “a deep understanding.”

A Insight B Curiosity C Passage                                   D Wandered E Adventure 

Answer: What is insight?

100

$100: People who legally belong to a country are called this.

citizens, immigration, opportunity, admitted, processing

What is citizens?

100

$100: The suffix -ic means “related to” or “containing,” forming this part of speech. 

adjective or noun

Answer: What is an adjective?

100

$100: The main idea tells this about the text.

Answer: What is the most important idea?

100

$100: This type of text gives factual information.

$200: The purpose of informational text is to explain or do this.

100

$100: This law in 1882 banned Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.


 What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?

100

$100: Louie Share Kim arrived at Angel Island from this Chinese province.

Answer: What is Guangdong Province?

200

$200: A strong desire to know or learn something.

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What is curiously?

200

$200: This word means “the act of moving to a new country to live.” 

citizens, immigration, opportunity, admitted, processing

Answer: What is immigration?

200

$200: The word athletic uses this suffix meaning “related to.”

What is -ic?

200

$200: These smaller points support the main idea.

Answer: What are details?

200

$200: The purpose of informational text is to explain or do this.

Answer: What is inform or give information about a topic?

200

$200: Families sometimes purchased these slots for sons to enter America.


$200: Families sometimes purchased these slots for sons to enter America.


200

$200: Louie Share Kim had two of these because of the paper son system.

Answer: What are fathers?

300

$300: A narrow hallway or route between rooms. 

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Answer: What is passage?

300

$300: This word means “a chance for advancement or progress.” 

citizens, immigration, opportunity, admitted, processing

What is opportunity?

300

$300: The suffix -ism means “the act, process, or result of.” One example is this word meaning travel for pleasure.

What is tourism?

300

$300: To figure out the main idea, look at repeated words and ideas in this part of the text.

Answer: What is the passage?

300

$300: Bold print, headings, and sidebars are examples of these.

Answer: What are text features?

300

$300: When the 1906 earthquake destroyed records, many immigrants claimed they were this.


$300: When the 1906 earthquake destroyed records, many immigrants claimed they were this.


300

$300: This station was known as the “Ellis Island of the West.”

Answer: What is Angel Island?


400

$400: A person who roams or travels aimlessly. 

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Answer: What is wanderer?

400

$400: When someone is officially allowed to enter a country, they are said to be this. 

citizens, immigration, opportunity, admitted, processing

Answer: What is admitted?

400

$400: The suffix -ive means “doing or being.” An example is this word meaning “causing division.”

Answer: What is divisive?

400

$400: Informational text features such as titles and bold words give clues to this.

Answer: What is the main idea?

400

$400: These are the most important ideas in informational text.

Answer: What are main ideas?

400

$400: Sometimes the “paper son” was truly related, but other times this was bought or invented.

$400: Sometimes the “paper son” was truly related, but other times this was bought or invented.


400

$400: Share Kim’s children and wife were detained here when trying to enter the U.S.

What is Angel Island Immigration Station?

500

$500: A risky or exciting undertaking. 

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Answer: What is adventure?

500

$500: This word means “the steps or actions needed to complete something, often in immigration.” 

citizens, immigration, opportunity, admitted, processing

Answer: What is processing?

500

$500: This suffix can make a noun by showing “a belief system,” as in Buddhism.


Answer: What is -ism?

500

$500: The process of connecting important ideas and supporting facts in order to understand a text.

Answer: What is analyzing main ideas and details?

500

$500: Informational text can be organized using these structures, such as cause/effect or problem/solution.

Answer: What are text structures?

500

$500: Families often went into this financial state to afford a paper son’s journey.

What is debt?


500

$500: Share Kim’s son Sam Louie said that growing up as a paper son always carried this fear.

Answer: What is being deported?

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