Poetry
In the poem, The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be, by Nikki Giovanni, the poet gives human traits of laughing and kissing tears to an ocean and clouds.
What is personification?
This one word author wrote about classmates comfortable with the fact that they were S.O.R. Losers.
Who is Avi?
This book gives us the story of God saving the Hebrews from slavery.
What is Exodus?
Five items Sam Gribley brought with him on his journey.
What are a penknife, ball of cord, an ax, $40 dollars, and flint and steel.
In the biography "To Live in Two Worlds," from what nation or Native American tribe is Lynn?
What is Navajo?
This technique/literary device was used to convey motion in the poem, From Whitman, by Consuelo Posloncec, a 6th grader, on her way to school. You wrote a poem about a busy scene using these types of words.
What are sensory words?
This character, in the story by Jacqueline Woodson, not only had to deal with the death of her father, but also her best friend Maizon going away to school.
Who is Margaret or Margaret Tory?
This book tells the story of Noah and the Flood.
What is Genesis?
Helped Sam find the Gribley Farm?
Who is Miss Turner or the librarian?
In the selection "Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure" these Egyptians took steps to rescue the tattered remains of some of the royal mummies whose graves had been looted. They found an abandoned tomb and secretly transferred the mummies to the new hiding place.
Who are the priests?
The poem "The Moon and the Year" was translated from this ancient people of South America.
What is the Mayan people?
In Gary Soto's story "Seventh Grade" the character has spent his summer picking this fruit to buy school clothes.
What are grapes?
In the book of Genesis God makes this type of agreement with Noah and his descendants to never flood the earth again.
What is a covenant?
Sam burned out the inside of a hemlock tree to make his house. He had read that Native Americans had done this to make something else.
What is a canoe or dugout canoe?
Dr. Robert Ballard, while exploring the wreckage of the Titanic, discovered that it was covered with a substance in which he named.
What are rusticles?
Mel Glenn wrote a poem entitled, Cecilia Dowling (One year later) in this form.
What is a letter?
"The Talking Earth" and "My Side of the Mountain" were both written by this author.
Who is Jean Craighead George?
Poems or hymns that can be prayers.
What is the Book of Psalms?
Sam believes that this is the best way to preserve his fish or deer meat.
What is smoking?
At first, Ballard and his crew mistook this object to be a human skull.
What is a doll's head?
The poet, Nikki Giovanni, wrote "The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be". She is also mentioned in another story in the first unit.
What is "Last Summer With Maizon"?
Brent Ashbrenner in "To Live in Two Worlds" tells us that Lynn leaves the reservation for what reason?
What is to go back east to a boarding school?
Written messages from one person or group to another. Many of these were written by St. Paul
What are letters or epistles?
Sam first thought that Bando was someone running away from the police. Bando was impressed with all Sam had accomplished and gave him this famous author's name.
Who is Thoreau?
Ballard had chosen not to remove anything from the Titanic wreckage, but he did leave something.
What is a memorial plaque?