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Vocabulary
Spelling
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Both girl mention this, so we know it will be important.
What is a trading schooner?
100
This is what the sun does to the beans.
What is makes them dry and darken.
100
This is why Papa trades cocoa beans for a bolt of cloth.
What is his family can't easily make cloth, but hey grow cacoa trees, and they have a lot of cocoa beans.
100
to talk about a trade in order to get a better deal
What is bargain
100
chocalate chocolate chocilet chockolit
What is chocolate
200
We learn this by reading about Santo Domingo.
What is how chocolate grows on trees there.
200
Another job that family members do in Santo Domingo.
What is work in their gardens, or hunt for conchs.
200
This is why people have to help the river freeze.
What is air pockets in the snowflakes keep the river from freezing deep enough.
200
to gather a crop
What is harvest.
200
iland ieland island eiyland
What is island.
300
This is what Santo Domingo is like.
What is warm, green and full of many kninds of fruit trees.
300
This is a sea creature that lives inside a shell. The meat is used in chowder.
What is a conch.
300
This is the first step the workers follow as they cut out the blocks of ice.
What is the ice boss makes straight lines across the river.
300
a heavy knife used as a tool for cutting plants
What is machete.
300
tropical tropikal tropecal tropicaal
What is tropical
400
These cocoa pods are older.
What is the red-and-yellow ones.
400
This is what the family plans to do when they load cocoa beans, coconuts, and bananas into their canoe when the schooner comes.
What is trade for something else.
400
This is why the workers cut along the straight lines made by the ice boss.
What is to create even squares of ice.
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the soft part of certain fruits and vegetables
What is pulp
400
iceburg icebrg iceberg icebierg
What is iceberg.
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This is the first step of getting cocoa beans from a cacao pod.
What is splitting the pod open.
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This is how Joacob helps the two girls trade things.
What is he gives the girl in Santo Domingo a handsewn bag and he will probably take the conch shell back to her in return.
500
This is the modern day cooling appliance that was not yet invented at the time of this story.
What is the refrigerator.
500
a ship that has two or more masts with sails in the front and back
What is schooner.
500
freezing freazing freasing freesing
What is freezing