Demonstrate
Show ENTHUSIASM.
(strong positive feeling about what we are doing)
Who was Oki's uncle?
Uncle Joe
How was the medicine getting from Nenana to Nome?
Dog mushers were carrying it over the snow.
Where is the Arctic?
What is ADVICE?
words that can help people in life
GLANCE out your window.
(to look at something for a short time)
Who can you name from the town of Nome (at least two!)?
Mayor Maynard, Dr. Welch, Nurse Morgan
What natural disaster was threatening to stop the medicine delivery?
a blizzard
What city was the main setting?
Nome, Alaska
What is QUARANTINE?
SWAY as if in a breeze
(to move gently back and forth)
Who was Balto's musher?
Gunnar Kaasen
What bad happened to Gunnar's sled?
It flipped over, losing the medicine.
What did they call the houses that the mushers could stop at between legs of their journey?
roadhouses
What is FRIGID?
very cold weather
Give me a SCOWL.
(to have an angry look on the face)
Who directly sent them on this mission?
Teddy
What sickness did Oki's mother and sister have?
diphtheria
Why did people rush to Nome in the 1900's?
They found gold.
What is FORECAST?
a report about the weather
Pretend to walk on an INCLINE.
(a slope; a hill; the land goes up or down)
What had happened to Uncle Joe's wife and two children?
They had died in the flue epidemic seven years before.
Why did everyone not remember Jack and Annie at the end of the story?
They used the magic stardust.
What sea must one cross to go between Russia and Alaska?
the Bering Sea
What is STRUGGLE?