Central Idea & Relevant Details
This French Explorer traveled to Florida in 1562 to claim land for France.
Who is Jean Ribault?
This text structure tells events in the order they happened.
What is chronological order?
This feature shows the route de Luna's men traveled to Coosa.
What is the map?
This term means the number of people living in an area.
What is population?
What do the illustrations contribute to the text?
What is they help readers visualize the events and the time period?
De Luna's settlers faced this major weather disaster soon after arriving in Pensacola.
What is a hurricane?
The author uses this text structure when explaining how the hurricane caused loss of supplies.
What is cause and effect?
This feature provides definition for tricky words like "population."
What is the vocabulary box?
This word means someone who explains words from one language to another.
What is an interpreter?
How do the vocabulary boxes contribute to the text?
What is they clarify important words so readers understand the content?
These people sailed with Ribault to escape religious persecution in France.
Who were the Huguenots?
Which text structure is used to show the long journey to Coosa?
What is sequence/chronology?
These help readers visualize the explorers, clothing, and tools.
What are illustrations/pictures?
What are hardships?
What is it helps show how difficult and dangerous settling Florida was?
Explain why de Luna sent soldiers to Cuba for help.
What is because the settlers ran out of food and supplies?
Explain one cause and effect from the text involving de Luna's expedition.
What is the hurricane destroying seven ships, caused the settlers to lose supplies and face starvation?
This feature gives interesting extra facts, like shipwreck discoveries.
What is the Fascinating Fact Box?
What does the word "claim" mean in the context of Frances taking land?
What is to take ownership?
How does the "Fascinating Fact" box about shipwrecks add meaning to the passage?
What is it connects the past events to modern discoveries and adds interest?
Compare Ribault's purpose with de Luna's purpose for coming to Florida.
What is Ribault came to claim land for France, while de Luna came to build a permanent settlement and find an overland route?
How does the author organize information to show why the settlement failed?
What is by listing events in order and showing how each problem led to another challenge?
Explain how the map scale helps the reader understand the journey to Coosa.
What is it shows the distance, helping readers see how far and difficult the journey actually was?
Use the word "hardship" in a sentence that shows you understand its meaning in the text.
What is ...
Explain how the map and the paragraph about the Coosa journey work together to help readers understand the expedition.
What is the map shows the distance and route visually, while the text explains why the journey was needed and how difficult it was?