Milestones
What would be a significant milestone for Esperanza?
What is a beautiful home or a house of her own?
What is the meaning of attribute?
What is to associate a thing with something or someone?
What are words related to attribute?
*Hint* Conjugate it to different parts of speech
What is tribute, attribution, attributes, attributed, attributing?
What was similar about how they evolved over time? What was different? How are the cities similar to and different from each other today?
Essentially, they evolved by advancing as a Metropolis. San Antonio had a brutal war, while NYC advanced due to the development of a bridge. NYC is a market place as well as San Antonio, but SA is more of a Mexican-influenced place while NYC is connected with 5 different burroughs.
1 Which sentence best states the central idea of the first paragraph?
A Life in New York was teetering between old and new.
What is the milestone for a Hispanic girl celebrating her 15th birthday?
What is a quinceñera?
What is the meaning of the word gratifying?
What is pleasing, satisfying?
What are words related to gratifying?
What is gratuity, grateful, gratitude, gratify, gratified?
What is the meaning of metropolis? Thriving? Prosperous?
City-State
Growing/Lively
Blooming
Which detail best supports the idea that the Brooklyn Bridge helped create modern-day New York City?
The Brooklyn Bridge successfully linked what had been two independent cities, Brooklyn and New York.
From the movie Akeelah & the bee, what was one of her first milestones?
What is winning the spelling bee at her school?
What is the meaning of the word persistent?
What is continuous, determined, tireless?
What are words related to persistent?
What is persistence, persisting, persisted, persist, impersistent?
How would the Brooklyn Bridge benefit Brooklynites and New Yorkers?
It would open up new markets for Brooklyn goods. It would help relieve overcrowding in New York City.)
Describe how the author connects the final paragraph to the paragraphs that came before it. Explain how all four paragraphs in the article work together to develop the central idea. Use at least two details from the text in your response.
The last paragraph links with the first paragraph by showing how it finally departed from the old world to a new metropolis. The second and third paragraphs detail how there were major advancements currently and in past days such as the Suez Canal & the telephone that made major technological advancements. The Brooklyn bridge transformed NYC to a modern masterpiece which allowed for decongestion of traffic, trade expansion, and which would also create cultural immersion.
What is the meaning of the word milestone?
What is a significant event?
What is the meaning of the word notable?
What is important, remarkable, worthy of attention?
What are 5 words related to notable?
*Hint: Think of words related to taking notes*
Noteworthy, note, notation, annotation, keynotes, denotation, notarize.
What are other examples the author includes of the technologies being implemented and the engineering feats taking place in the second half of the nineteenth century?
Railroads and steamships were fast becoming common modes of transportation. A telegraph cable had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean. Other engineering marvels such as the Suez Canal and the Monte Cenis Tunnel were also being built.
How do all the accounts in this lesson relate to the theme of American cities?
Both of these stories are related to American cities becuse they show how far they grew, their interesting stories, and how they came to be what we know them now.
After reading Red Roses, what was a significant event for the protagonist in the story?
What is taking the roses?
What is the meaning of the word inspire?
to generate feelings or thoughts in someone
What are words related to inspire?
What is any of the following: Inspiration, inspired, inspirational,
spirit, aspire, respiration,
uninspiringly
Apart from Roebling’s vision and design, explain the factors that contributed to the success of the Brooklyn Bridge
The people of Brooklyn and New York saw the advantages of a bridge. Civic leaders and residents wanted it. Brooklyn was a manufacturing center. Linking the cities would relieve overcrowding.
What is one fact or idea about growing American cities that you learned from each account in this lesson?
NYC was once a very rural and non-advanced place, but just by building a bridge it connected so many different people together and made NYC one of the biggest capitals and advanced cultural centers of the world.