Drowned City
We Dream of Space
The Great American Dust Bowl
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
100
Drowned City recounts the events of this hurricane that struck much of the Gulf Coast in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
100
We Dream of Space centers around this major event in 1986.
What is the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster?
100
The dust bowl affected this land form in western America.
What is the Great Plains?
100
It compares two things in order to add description and begins with like or as. (ex. as vast as the night sky)
What is a simile?
100
The area immediately outside of the cyclone that is associated with high winds, heavy rain, and tall clouds.
What is the eye wall?
200
This city in Louisiana was the center of media attention during and after the hurricane.
What is New Orleans?
200
Christa McAuliffe was the first of this profession that got the chance to go into space.
What is a teacher?
200
This grows on the plains.
What is grass?
200
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman (ex. But Cash’s smile had wandered away.)
What is personification?
200
A written message sent into space (hint: think latin roots)
What is an Astrogram?
300
The 43rd President of the United States, he was president during Hurricane Katrina.
Who is George W. Bush?
300
Bird keeps a journal of these drawings which are a simplified, "Bird's eye view" of complex machines.
What are schematics?
300
The Dust Bowl occurred after farmers overplanted this crop.
What is wheat?
300
Saying the same thing over and over again (ex. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.)
What is repetition?
300
What is Mosaic?
400
Many people sought shelter here with many reports of hunger, sickness, and death that was being covered by the media but by the local government.
What is the Superdome?
400
Cash finds his "space" when he decides to join this sports team.
What is track?
400
Due to the dry fields, many cows did this.
What is starved and died?
400
It compares two objects or actions that are not literally the same. (ex. The mind is a mysterious machine.)
What is a metaphor?
400
Reasoning Roots: Monotone
What is a single sound?
500
This government organization became part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 and was in charge of disaster relief after the Hurricane.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or FEMA)?
500
Ms. Salonga says this action is a simple gift to each other.
What is eye contact?
500
People wore these in order to help with breathing during dust storms.
What are face masks?
500
An exaggerated statement (ex. The whole world doesn't revolve around you.)
What is an hyperbole?
500
100 years
What is a century?