Reading
This part of the BFG’s body is so large and sensitive he can hear ladybirds walking on leaves.
What are his ears?
A red-orange metallic element, highly conductive of electricity and heat.
What is copper?
Me and her was going to the store but we forgot our money
She and I were going to the store, but we forgot our money.
This year marks the opening of the Granite Mountain Mine in Butte
What is 1887?
This federal agency, created in 1970 during President Richard Nixon’s administration, was founded to: respond to environmental disasters, conduct research, and enforce cleanup standards.
What is the environmental protection agency (EPA)?
The BFG wears this simple outfit, including footwear he made himself.
What is a leather apron and sandals?
Rock or mineral that contains enough valuable material (like copper) to be mined for profit.
He don’t got no pencils for the test
He doesn’t have any pencils for the test.
This depth (in feet) was reached by operations in the Granite Mountain Mine.
What is 3,700 feet?
One of the EPA’s major goals is to regulate these substances, which can pose risks to human and environmental health.
What are chemicals?
The BFG uses this word to describe something wonderfully delicious — especially frobscottle.
What is scrumdiddlyumptious?
An excavation in the earth for extracting minerals or ore
What is a mine?
I seen them boys at the movie she said
"I saw those/the boys at the movie," she said.
In 1915, the mine installed this piece of equipment, said to be the largest of its kind in the U.S. at the time.
What is the electric hoist?
This Ohio river became famous for catching fire, demonstrating the severe state of pollution in the U.S.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
Sophie describes the BFG’s skin as this texture, making him look ancient but not frightening.
What is leathery or wrinkly skin?
A large, bowl-shaped excavation made on the ground's surface to extract ore.
What is an open-pit mine?
Ain’t nobody in this class doing they homework
Nobody in this class is doing their homework.
This tragic event, the deadliest hard-rock mining accident in U.S. history, began in which of the mine’s shafts.
What is the Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine fire?
This 1962 nonfiction book by Rachel Carson exposed the dangers of the pesticide DDT.
What is Silent Spring?
The BFG struggles with this skill, slowly sounding out words the way a young child might.
What is reading and writing?
A mine where tunnels and shafts are dug beneath the earth's surface to reach ore
What is an underground mine?
"Kyle and I don't want any more homework," he said, "because our social lives are too busy."
The mine’s operations officially ceased in this year.
What is 1944?
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring inspired a generation by revealing the harmful effects of this pesticide on birds and the environment.
What is DDT?