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Vocabulary
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Dragon
Japan
Japan
100
This is the way a group of people do certain things (like Japanese people bow to greet each other).
What are customs?
100
This text feature is writing found in a box near a picture that provides the reader extra information.
What is a caption?
100
Jack and Annie were trying to help Merlin find this.
What is a secret of happiness?
100
This mountain is the tallest in Japan.
What is Mount Fuji?
100
In this type of theater, the actors wear bright costumes and makeup.
What is kabuki?
200
A way of life handed down from one generation to another, like celebrating holidays) is called this.
What is a tradition?
200
This text feature in the beginning of a book tells the reader on what page a topic is discussed.
What is Table of Contents?
200
Jack and Annie were in danger because they did not have these.
What are passports?
200
One of these shaky things happens everyday in Japan. (Hint: find the information in a caption.)
What is earthquake?
200
This is a Japanese puppet show.
What is bunraku?
300
Jack thought Basho's skinny, saggy banana tree was this word.
What is scrawny?
300
This text feature gives the definition to special words in a text.
What is glossary?
300
The famous poem that Basho shared with Jack and Annie described this.
What is a frog jumping into water?
300
These are Japan's premier (most popular) athletes.
Who are Sumo Wrestlers?
300
Japanese people call rice this word.
What is gohan?
400
Basho used this word when he told Jack and Annie to be at one with their surroundings.
What is harmony?
400
This text feature tells us on what pages we can find more information about certain words.
What is the index?
400
This is all Basho had left after the fire.
What is a box of his poems?
400
This is a delicious Japanese food with raw fish over sticky rice.
What is sushi?
400
The Japanese people enjoy the pink blooms on these trees.
What are cherry trees.
500
This word that describes the people selling goods on the busy streets of Edo also sounds like people who ride bicycles.
What are peddlers?
500
These text features help us see where a place is, what it looks like, and labels important cities.
What is a map?
500
Jack and Annie were able to get past the samurai in the Imperial Garden by doing this.
What is reciting poems?
500
In this Japanese tradition people sit on mats and are served something to drink.
What is a tea ceremony?
500
In this kind of poem, the first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the third line is 5 syllables.
What is haiku?