Reading skills
What is main idea?
The most important information from a text.
What is segregation?
Being separated, usually by the color of your skin.
what is a word that has the same sound as the ee in feet?
answers vary...
What is the resource called located at that back of a book/text that gives you definitions or meanings to a word?
The Glossary
Who was Dred Scott?
A slave who fought for his freedom.
What is a key detail?
A piece of information that supports the main idea, or an important piece of information.
What does it mean to evolve?
It means to change.
Finish this sentence. The _______ is a document that is the foundation of the United States Government.
Constitution
What is a caption?
Text under an image or chart.
True or False: Lyndon Johnson believes that it is a Southern problem.
False; "There is not Negro problem. There is n southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American Problem"
Name one type of figurative language.
Answers vary. Examples: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc.
What does succession mean?
the action or process of inheriting a title, or one after another.
What is a word that has the same sound as ir in girl?
Answers vary....
What does it mean if something is ordered chronologically?
In order by date/time.
Who was the first African American justice of the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
What does it mean to summarize?
To take the important pieces of a text and shorten it.
What does "regulate" mean?
To control something or keep it regular
What is the correct spelling?
Liburty
Libirty
Liberty
Librty
Liberty
What is a footnote?
A note at the bottom of the text to give more information for understanding.
What is the overall theme of all the stories we read in this unit?
The government or laws evolving, or how far our country has come through segregation and racism.
What does it mean to infer?
To make a guess with what you know and the information you are given.
What does repealed mean?
"The law passed, but then it was repealed."
To revoke or take away.
What does a long vowel say? Give one example.
It says its name.
What is the bold font that comes under a title to mark different sections called?
A subtitle.
Who used the Dred Scott case to help issue the Emancipation Proclamation to free the enslaved people?