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How does the informational text about earthquakes help to bolster undersanding of the literary texts about earthquakes?
What is Earthquakes informs readers that Japan and Greece are both located in earthquake zones, which helps to explain why there are myths about earthquakes in these places.
Earthquakes can vary in magnitude which helps the readers understand the difference strengths of the earthquakes Namazu can create.
What kinds of details are included in inforamtional texts about earthquakes? What kind of details are included in literary texts about earthquakes?
Informational texts uses facts and numbers to describe the strength of earthquakes. The literary texts describes what the damage looks and sounds like to the characters experiencing it.
How do the fictional texts about earthquakes enhance and add to our understanding of the informational text about earthquakes?
The fictional texts describe ow these varying quakes impact peoples' lives differntly the loss of homes and possibly loved ones, falling buildings, and flooded cities.
Yes because the cover isn't talked about.
What is strains?
pressure, tension, stress
Which text is set in the Aegean Sea and Greece. How do you know?
What is Earthshakers Bad Day, because Poseidon lives in the Aegean. He, Athena, and Zeus are ancient Greek Gods.
What is the cause of earthquakes according to Earthquakes, Earthshaker's Bad Day, and The Monthser Beneath the Sea?
Earthquakes explains the cause as rocks moving past each other along faults or cracks. Earthshaker's Bad Day explains the cause as Poseidon striking the ocean floor in rage. The Monster Beneath the Sea explains the cause as the slapping tail of the giant catfish Namazu on the ocean floor.
Read the last sentence on page 8 and 26 of Earthquakes. What chapter in Quake includes a simimlar occurence?
Aftershock
Earthquakes tells that it is best to stay calm during an earthquake. How do the characters in the stories follow this advice?
Jacob tries not to panic while looking for his family. The Athenians go to higher ground and wait. The Japanese protect their heads.
What is vertical?
Upright, up and down
Which text is set in Japan? How do you know?
What is the Monster Beneath the Sea? The first line says deep in the ocean off the coast of Japan.
Why do you think the texts have different explanations?
The texts are different genres, so they have different purposes. The myths are from different cultures, so they are different.
How is the event described differently in the two texts?
Quake describes the afershock as a jolt that makes the ground jerk for a few seconds. Earthquakes says aftershocks are weaker shocks that shake buildings and can occur over days or weeks.
What does emerged mean?
Make something come into view, reveal yourself
What is registers, as used in the text?
measures, records
What is the relationship between the Aegean Sea near Greece, and the Japanese archipelago and the plates that make up the Earth's crust? What about the red dots on the map and their location?
They are both located near the edges of the plates in Earth's crust. Both areas are located amid many red dots that show where earthquakes have occured.
What common event in history do both Earthquakes and Quake discuss?
1906 San Francisco earthquake
How do the visuals in the for texts reflect each text's purpose?
The photos, maps, and diagrams in Earthquakes convey factual information to inform readers. Quake and the myths are ment to enterain to illustrations are used to bring the story to life.
What does practical mean?
It is useful, you are remaining calm and practical
What is predict?
anticipate, guess, foretell, forecast
What does this map tell the reader about the relationship between earthquakes and these two places?
How do they treat the same event differently?
Earthquakes tells how many people died and how many buildings were destroyed in real life. Quake is a fictional potrayal of the event from the perspective of a boy living through it.
Does the cover for Quake show an event described in the text? Explain.
No, it shows Jacob offering to help someon climb up rubble, but we read only about Mac helping Jacob climb down.
What is summons?
Call someone or something to you
What is torrent?
deluge, or flood