Vocabulary
Volcano
Loo-Wit
Figurative Language
Text Structures
100

The definition of billowing...

What is swelling and rising?

100

The effect of the mountain being torn open by an avalanche, the pressurized water within turned to steam...

What is there was an explosion?

100

What is the main cause of problems for the two brothers?

What is they are envious of each other?

100

A simile is...

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

100

When the author gives details and characteristics about something...

What is the description text structure?

200

The definition of churned...

What is moved violently?

200

Volcanoes like Mount St. Helens are tall in height because...

What is lava flows out of the crater's mouth and hardens?

200
Loo-Wit does not want to be a beautiful woman anymore because...

What is she feels horrible about the pain her beauty causes between the two chiefs?

200

Personification is ...

What is Figurative language that describes an object as if it had human qualities?

200

The author shows steps in order or tells an event in chronological order...

What is sequence or chronological?

300

The definition of lumbered...

What is moved heavily, clumsily, and often noisily?

300

We know that Mount St. Helens erupted suddenly because...

What is an earthquake and avalanche tore open the mountain, triggering a change in pressure within?

300

The creator shows mercy by...

What is he allows the people to have fire back after the ask for peace?

300

Onomatopoeia is....

What is A word that imitates a sound?

300

The author explains an event ( or more than 1) and what happens as a result...

What is cause and effect?

400

The definition of scouring...

What is removing as if by cleaning and scraping, sweeping away?

400

The following claims is not supported in the "from Volcano"...

Volcanoes that have erupted once rarely exploded twice.

Nature has the ability to come back to life again, even after vast devastation.

One natural event can trigger broad ecological consequences.

Volcanoes can be inactive for long periods before erupting again.


What is volcanoes that have erupted once rarely exploded twice?

400

"Loo-Wit, the Fire-Keeper" is an origin myth. What question does this origin myth answer?

Why do volcanoes exist?

400

"Before the eruption Mount St. Helens was like a giant pressure cooker" is an example of...

What is a simile?

400

The author tells similarities and differences between 2 or more things...

What is compare and contrast?

500

The definition of an origin myth is...

What is a story that explains how something in the world began or was created?

500

Name two facts about Volcano.

Answers will vary.

500

The natural features that are explained in this origin myth are...

The narrowing of the Columbia River at the place called The Dalles today.

The reason Mount St. Helens erupts from time to time.

The locations of Mount Adams and Mount Hood.

500

Provide an example of personification...

Answers will vary.

500

The author describes a problem (or more than 1) and how it is solved?

What is problem and solution?