When Grandmother told the old story
What is recount?
If your not my friend than you're my
Enemy
Why is the ocean important to Grandmother and the children?
The ocean provides food for them; they enjoy the sound of the waves; the;y think that life would be terrible without the ocean.
This is a material used to make clothes.
What is cotton
Wagon Wheel, Bow Tie, Drunkards Path
What is a slave quilt codes?
It is an abandoned building you can't live there!
What is uninhabitable?
They said the evidence of the stolen macaroni and cheese was
admissible
What is unusual about the characters Thunder and Earthquake?
They are natural processes that have human qualities. They can walk, talk, and think like humans, but they are not humans.
Used to feed a lot a slaves and animals at one time.
What is a troth
What the slaves were suppose to be given once emancipated.
What is 40 acres and a mule?
We keep doing this over and over again
What is monotonous
Dinosaurs are now
nonexistent
What do Thunder and Earthquake believe will be the effect of bringing water to the prairie?
Plants will grow and animals and people will come and thrive.
The ceremony slaves used to get married
What is jumping the broom
This document freed the slaves in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
What is parched.
digestible
How do you think Kingfisher feels when he raches the water?
Excited
The name given to the people who were suppose to catch slaves that escaped.
Who are the Paddy Rollers
This crop grown on plantations, and used to sweeten things.
What is sugar
This is the way Earthquake and Thunder felt
Sorrowful
The old man did not have much knowledge on slavery. He is
unwise
What happens that makes the prairie into an ocean?
they run around the fire, stomping like Earthquake; they join in to ask questions and make comments about the story.
Slaves were not allowed to do this if they had a book.
What is reading?
The name of the escape routes slaves used, and Harriet Tubman became famous for
What is the Underground Railroad