Rifka
Rifka flees from THIS city in Russia with her family
What is Berdichev?
This swimming mammal sings to its baby before its born.
What is a dolphin?
This is a general answer. It answers the question, but it is vague (not specific).
What is a gist?
This is a fancy word for a short, mini-story which you can use as evidence in your essay.
What is an anecdote?
The big idea or lesson in a fiction story.
What is theme?
In Poland, the authorities did THIS to their belongings, which involves spraying them with chemicals.
What is fumigate?
This type of animal is born without humps but then grows them later.
What is a camel?
This is what we call numbers that we multiply together to form a product.
What are factors?
This paragraph is where you talk to the reader and acknowledge those who may disagree with you.
The different ways writers can organize their text, such as compare/contrast.
What are text features?
This is the name of the couple that Rifka lives with in Antwerp, Belgium, while she is getting her treatment.
Who is Gaston and Marie?
This type of shark gives birth after there is a fight in the womb, and the strongest one survives.
Immigrants were detained, and sometimes THIS, which means sent back to their countries, if they did not pass the screening on Ellis Island.
What is "deported"?
This is the number of paragraphs an essay should have...
What is 6? (Intro/ reason 1/reason 2/reason 3/D.A./Conclusion)
This is the place in a book where you can find definitions to words that may be in bold throughout the book? It is alphabetical.
What is the glossary?
This is the year that Rifka starts writing to her cousin, Tovah.
What is 1919?
When this animal has babies it is the fathers who are pregnant.
What is a seahorse?
What is "resistance"?
What is "Stick the Landing"?
Choices authors make in their writing that makes their writing unique.
What is "author's craft"?
Rifka's 5 brothers are...Asher, Rueben, Saul, Isaac and WHO?
Who is Nathan?
This animal protects its babies from predators by rubbing it with venom produced by a gland on its arms.
What is the Slow Loris?
A "complete thought" in math (with an answer) is called this.
What is an equation?
This is what we call the fancy words that show our reader that a new idea is coming. (Examples: Also, Furthermore, Moreover, Finally)
What are "transition words"?
Nonfiction is organized in 5 ways. Sometimes it is a combination of ways. When an author uses more than 1 text structure, we call it THIS.
What is HYBRID?