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Vocabulary
The Generation Belt
The Lost Diary of Princess Itet
Energy From the Sea
Genre, Prefixes, Homophones
100
This word means dangerous or hazardous. 

Trecherous

100

Why can't Kanti swim with her cousins?

She needed to learn.

100

What did Amelia translate?

A diary

100

What text feature is in the text?

A sidebar.

100

What is one aspect of narrative nonfiction?

  • Narrative nonfiction tells a story that includes facts and examples about a topic. The characters in the story share or learn facts.
  • Narrative nonfiction may include text features such as headings, photographs and captions, and speech balloons. However, even if a text has none of these features, it may still be narrative nonfiction
200

A remarkable occurance of events.

Coincidence

200

What do the belts represent?

They represent stories of peoples lives.

200

What does Amelia want to do at the beginning of the passage?

She wants to go to the pyramids.

200

Waterpower has been in use for thousands of years. The earliest use of hydropower can be traced to the waterwheel. It is a big wheel with paddles on the rim. The force of the water turns the wheel. Then the wheel runs machinery that is linked to it. Ancient Egyptians used river currents to turn wheels way back in 2500 B.C. The ancient Greeks and Romans used hydropower, too. It survived all the way through medieval times. 

What details are included in this paragraph.

How hydropower works.


200

Choose the correct homophone:

Smoking is not allowed/aloud in this room. 

Allowed

300

A synonym for this word is effective.

Efficient 

300

What does Kanit learn about the belts?

They depict stories of her ancestors.

300
What does Amelia do to help get what she wants?

She helps to translate the diary.

300

How has hydropower evolved since Egyptan times?

We now have dams, hydroelectric plants, hot steam etc...

300

The geothermal temperatures is hotter near the Earth's core.

What does geo- mean?

Earth

400

To put give money in order to gain money.

Invest

400

What is a wampum?

Beads or clams that are in the belt?

400
Why did Amelia's mom agree to let her come to the pyramids?

Amelia was able to translate the diary.

400

What is a negative aspect of waterpower?

If there is not a large water source, then it will not work.

400

Choose the correct homophone:

They're/There/Their the ones who went to the mall.

They're 

500

An exchange of goods.

Transaction

500

What is the theme of the story.

Learning about your past is important.

500

What is the theme of the story?

With hard work you can succeed.

500

What is the main idea of the whole passage?

How energy usage has evolved over time. 

500

Name one aspect of historical fiction.

  • Historical fiction has realistic characters, events, and settings.
  • Historical fiction is set in the past and is based on real events.
  • Historical fiction has fictional characters that are interwoven with characters based on real people in history.
  • Historical fiction can be a series of diary entries or letters.