Vocabulary
What is textile?
Which word describes a painful disease?
What is arthritis?
Why did Annie have to stop making lace?
What is because she had arthritis that made the joints in her fingers swollen with pain?
Who are the wee people in the story?
What are leprechauns?
Rewrite as a correct, complete sentence:
While you are waiting for the bus.
Stay back from the curb while you are waiting for the bus.
Which word means the same thing as agreement?
What is contract?
What is posh?
Why could the family hardly wait to set foot on dry land?
What is their journey on the ship had been very difficult?
What are three types of transportation mentioned in the story?
What are
wagon
ship
and train?
Rewrite as a correct, complete sentence:
Hector wrote a letter he mailed it.
Hector wrote a letter, and he mailed it.
Which word describes a kind of factory?
What is mill?
What is wearily?
How did the family feel when they saw their new home? Why?
What is they are disappointed because it is not as nice as they expected. They saw fancy people and fancy buildings on the way.
What are the cities did the families go to in the story? What country is each city in?
What is-
The family lives in Glenn Kerry, near Limerick. Then, they travel to Belfast. Both of these cities are in Ireland.
Then, they travel in a ship to New York. From there, they take a train to Chicago. Both of these cities are in The United States of America.
Rewrite as a correct, complete sentence:
Sailed the ship through the Panama Canal.
The captain sailed the ship through the Panama Canal.
Which word means the same thing as indulged?
What is obliged?
What is levying?
What made Fiona think of the trail of lace in the fire?
What is because-
Fiona's mother used a trail of lace to show her father where she lived.
What was the biggest surprise that the family had when coming to Chicago?
What is
The biggest surprise was that the family would not be paid for their work. All of the money that they earned would be paid back to the family that brought them.
Rewrite as a correct, complete sentence:
A very hot, humid day.
We stayed inside because it was a very hot, humid day.
Which word is a synonym for laughed?
What is tittered?
What is wistfully?
Why weren't Mick and Annie home with the girls when the fire started?
They were probably working at their second jobs, Annie scrubbing laundry and Mick working at the slaughterhouse.
Why did Ailish scream when Fiona started cutting the lace?
What is
Ailish screamed because the lace was so valuable and beautiful. She did not want the lace to be destroyed.
Rewrite as a correct, complete sentence:
Some stores have ice water for dogs we bought some for our dogs.
Some stores have ice water for dogs, so we bought some for our dogs.