Vocabulary 1
Making a prediction or conclusion based on what you know from life and evidence from the text
What is an inference?
The word used in the letter that has the synonyms begins, starts, launches, commences
What is initiates?
A brief explanation (or title) of a picture or drawing
What is a caption?
The author of the Letter about the chocolate bomb
Who is Lord Rothschild?
A word that means part of a text (sentence, paragraph, etc)
What is an excerpt?
A system of parts working together in a machine is called this in the letter
What is a mechanism?
A simplified drawing showing how something looks and how it works
What is a diagram?
The author's purpose for writing the letter to Fish about the chocolate bomb
What is to request a detailed diagram of the chocolate bomb?
In "Is it Fair..." the term used for companies that do not support child or slave labor
What is Fair Trade Certified?
A from the letter that has synonyms including surrounded, inserted, included, attached
What is enclosed?
The author does not include _______ to convince readers. A) statistics, B) a story, C) quotes
What are quotes from customers?
The line from the first paragraph of "Is it Fair..." that is included to grab the reader's attention by making them think about their own experiences with the topic.
The word in paragraph 7 that the author uses to specify the price needs to be a certain amount or higher
What is the minimum (price)?
From the aticle "Is it Fair..." this word has the synonyms methods, way, procedures, systems, practices, techniques
What is means?
Reason Fair Trade is good for farmers?
What is farmers are paid a wage high enough to support their family?
The biggest reason for child labor according to "Is it Fair?"
What is the families who run cacao farms need the money?
A short story
What is an anecdote?
Going to school is out of the question for Sametta, means that she: A) doesn't have a school she can go to, B) it is not possible because her family needs for her to work to make money, C) she doesn't like school, D) Her family doesn't see the value of getting an education
What is B) it is not possible because her family needs for her to work to make money
According to the letter, these are not shown in the diagram
What are the explosive and delay mechanism?
The author's claim or point of view in paragraph 6 of "Is it Fair..."