Vocabulary
He ______ the answer was A because B and C were silly responses.
What is deduced?
What is the article mostly about?
What is the first Americans to reach the North Pole.
What are pages 381 and 382 mostly about?
What is the dangers the expedition encountered as they marched north.
What is the main idea of the story?
What is Matthew Henson and Commander Peary tried to be the first people to the North Pole
He ________ playing video games to go to the basketball game for his sister.
What is sacrificed?
Two plus two is four. This is an _______________ of three plus one.
What is equivalent?
To organize the article in time order
Chronological order or sequence of events
Based on the description of the trip, what is most likely the reason that the party had to use more than one person to break up the trail?
What is the trail breakers become exhausted and need rest.
What does connotation mean?
What is the feelings we associate with a word when we hear it
The weather outside is ______. My nose feels like an ice cube.
What is frigid?
It has been ________ that you have a test tomorrow on Schoology.
What is affirmed?
The author calls the two-week to Cape Sheridan an ice-busting, gut wrenching voyage. The connotation of this description is that the voyage was...
What is extremely difficult, so negative
On April 5 Peary checked the position of the sun with his sextant. What is the meaning of the word sextant?
What is an instrument that determines location?
What does idiom mean?
A figure of speech that is a common expression and not to be taken literally
We are ________ in the game, because our teacher makes us all play.
What is participants?
teacher needs to ______ herself to plan her lesson.
What is prime?
In February 1909 the entire party prepared to march to the North Pole. What is the connotation of the word march?
What is an organized advance towards a goal, so positive.
From the caption on page 388, the reader can conclude that the Inuit
What is were not impressed with the North Pole.
What is the difference between main idea and theme?
What is what the story is mostly about and the lesson in the story
The Rubbermaid dish is _______. It has lasted for four years!
What is durable?
Getting an A in Reading is the _______ of hard work.
What is culmination?
From the photographs on pages 380-381, the reader can tell that a sledge can...
a. go up a hill
b. go up a hill with help
c. never make it up a hill
What is b. go up a hill with help
What did Henson, Egingwah, and Seegloo do to ensure they had actually reached the North Pole?
What is drove the sledges in a large rectangle around the campsite
Why did Peary bring the flags he did to the North Pole?
What is because they were special to him