Vocabulary
What is the definition of "Culture"?
The way a particula group of people lives and understands the world.
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing; cat, pizza, dog, school.
What is a verb?
A word that expresses and action: run, eat, sleep.
Who are the Nez Perce?
When you're about to take an English test, what's the first thing you should read?
The questions!
Effect on something; to make an impression
on something or someone.
What is an adverb?
EX: She quickly ran. He quietly slept.
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun (something, someone).
The pretty flower. The cold morning.
Name one reason the Nez Perce homeland sustained their lifestyle.
It sustained their food by providing fish, berries, and other natural ingridents.
It sustained their clothing because they made their clothes out of animal hides like deerskin.
It sustained their shelter because they made tipis out of buffalo hide.
Red, yellow, green.
Define the word "homeland".
What is a direct object?
The thing in the sentence that is having something done to it.
What is the subject of a sentence?
The thing that does the action, the topic of the sentence.
Name one reason Americans moved westward into Indian Country.
They moved for gold; they moved for land to farm.
What does a "red" color question mean?
Stop and think; answers are outside of the text.
What part of speech is the word "cultural"?
adjective
What is the subject in this sentence?
The cat ate the fish.
The cat is the subject.
A phrase that offers extra information (such as when, where, which kind, or how).
EX: In the 1800s, the Nez Perce in the West lived in well-ordered communities.
Name one impact that westward expansion had on the Native population.
The Native population lost their land; the Native population lost important resources like food and water.
The first sentence or two.
Define "customs" and give an example of one.
Usual or accepted practices of a social group.
I.E.: holidays, diet, greetings, public manners.
What is the verb in this sentence:
She ran to the store.
Ran is the verb.
What is the direct object in this sentence:
I ate pizza on Friday.
Pizza is the direct object.
What was one value that Native Americans had in the 1800s?
What is the first thing your should do when you begin writing an answer?
Restate the question as your answer.