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unit 3
How does helping others help us all?
Ans: When we are helping people in someways, for example give money to the poor, give food to the monk or teach friends how to do homework, etc.. The people that get our help will feel good at the same time we will feel good too no matter it is a big help or a small help.
Ans: When we are helping people in someways, for example give money to the poor, give food to the monk or teach friends how to do homework, etc.. The people that get our help will feel good at the same time we will feel good too no matter it is a big help or a small help.
Reading 1
Comprehension Question
1.What illness does sky have?
Ans:He had a bad swamp.
2.What message is Mama to send if Sky lives? Give the precise words.
Ans:"If he makes it, wire me that the quilt is ready, and I'll come get him".
3.During what time period does this novel take place?
Ans:It is in 1888.
4.What are some things that Mama does to help Sky get well?
Ans:Covering him with quilts and wrapped his hands with strips of cloth so he couldn't scratch. Then she boil water for sassafras tea and give him quinine.
5.Why do you think that Sky listens only to Papa?
Ans:Because papa introduced everyone in the family and told sky that as long as Sky live in the house everyone in the house will treat him with respect and he makes sky understand what is happening.
6.How does the writer create suspense? At what point in the selection did you know that Sky would get better?
Ans:The writer create a suspense that if sky get better he will be send back to reservation. I know that Sky will get better when mama said that he will make it.
7.Does it help to try to put yourself in someone else's shoes? Why?
Ans:Yes, because it shows what other people are thinking about.
8. When have you or someone close to you felt homesick?
Ans:When my friend went to the scout camp and my sister goes study aboard.
Vocabulary
Infect, spread disease throughout
Impurities, poisons, or unclean substances that cause sickness
Quinine, a drug used for treating fever
Larger than life, important and exciting
Suspecting, thinking that
consent, permission
Sap, drain
For the time being, for now
Homesickness, feelings of sadness when away from home.
Diseases, illnesses
Commenced to, began
business, personal responsibility or task'
Geronimo, a famous Apache chief who fought to protect his people's lands
Guidance, help and advice
Out of the woods, out of trouble
Triumphant, victorious
Bone tired, extremely tired
Rile, anger or upset
Put out, hurt or unfairly treated
Patient, person getting medical care
Addled his brain, confused him
Grits, crushed dried corn that is cooked and eaten for breakfast
Hanging on every word, listening closely to every word
Tote, carry
Put myself in Sky's shoes, put myself in his place.
Attending to, taking care of
Personal, private
1.What illness does sky have?
Ans:He had a bad swamp.
2.What message is Mama to send if Sky lives? Give the precise words.
Ans:"If he makes it, wire me that the quilt is ready, and I'll come get him".
3.During what time period does this novel take place?
Ans:It is in 1888.
4.What are some things that Mama does to help Sky get well?
Ans:Covering him with quilts and wrapped his hands with strips of cloth so he couldn't scratch. Then she boil water for sassafras tea and give him quinine.
5.Why do you think that Sky listens only to Papa?
Ans:Because papa introduced everyone in the family and told sky that as long as Sky live in the house everyone in the house will treat him with respect and he makes sky understand what is happening.
6.How does the writer create suspense? At what point in the selection did you know that Sky would get better?
Ans:The writer create a suspense that if sky get better he will be send back to reservation. I know that Sky will get better when mama said that he will make it.
7.Does it help to try to put yourself in someone else's shoes? Why?
Ans:Yes, because it shows what other people are thinking about.
8. When have you or someone close to you felt homesick?
Ans:When my friend went to the scout camp and my sister goes study aboard.
Vocabulary
Infect, spread disease throughout
Impurities, poisons, or unclean substances that cause sickness
Quinine, a drug used for treating fever
Larger than life, important and exciting
Suspecting, thinking that
consent, permission
Sap, drain
For the time being, for now
Homesickness, feelings of sadness when away from home.
Diseases, illnesses
Commenced to, began
business, personal responsibility or task'
Geronimo, a famous Apache chief who fought to protect his people's lands
Guidance, help and advice
Out of the woods, out of trouble
Triumphant, victorious
Bone tired, extremely tired
Rile, anger or upset
Put out, hurt or unfairly treated
Patient, person getting medical care
Addled his brain, confused him
Grits, crushed dried corn that is cooked and eaten for breakfast
Hanging on every word, listening closely to every word
Tote, carry
Put myself in Sky's shoes, put myself in his place.
Attending to, taking care of
Personal, private
REading 2
Comprehension Questions
1.What happened to Benito Juárez in 1861?
Ans: He became the first Zapotec Indian president of Mexico because he fought for the rights of all Mexican people.
2.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during which war?
Ans: He was a president during world war 2.
3.Why Helen Keller's childhood so difficult?
Ans:Because she was blind and deaf.
4.What north American leader believed in passive resistance?
Ans:Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. believed in passive resistant the some as Gandhi.
5. Why do you think the author chose to write about Florence Nightingale?
Ans:Because she was born in wealth family but she sacrifice to help the sick and dying people.
6.Who do you think had the most lasting impact on others? Why?
Ans:I think Florence Nightingale because she was a women from healthy family and what she did was giving without getting back.
7.Why is it important for all children to get and education?
Ans:So their knowledge improve their society and their lives.
8.Describe someone you think is extraordinary. Why is that person special? What has he or she achieved?
Ans:I think King Bhumibhol is an extraordinary people because he help people all over Thailand. He scarified himself for the poor in every way. The things he do is worth for Thai people and almost all Thai people love and respect him. He achieved by seeing Thai people living better and imporve Thailand.
Vocabulary
Social justice,fairness for all people
Colonizing, controlling a country and sending your own people to live there.
Reforms, changes that improve a system
Wealthy, very rich
Apartheid, a system in which different races in a country are separated
Inspired, caused; influenced people to express interest in
Economic, relating to business, industry, and managing money
Polio, an infectious disease of the nerves in the spine that can cause paralysis
Impaired, damaged, or less strong, or less good
Frustrated, upset because you can't do something.
Adversity, difficulties or problems
Borders, Official lines that separate two countries
Administrators, people who manage businesses or organizations
Nutrition, food for good health and growth
Sanitation, hygiene; cleanliness
Atrocities, extremely violent action
1.What happened to Benito Juárez in 1861?
Ans: He became the first Zapotec Indian president of Mexico because he fought for the rights of all Mexican people.
2.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during which war?
Ans: He was a president during world war 2.
3.Why Helen Keller's childhood so difficult?
Ans:Because she was blind and deaf.
4.What north American leader believed in passive resistance?
Ans:Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. believed in passive resistant the some as Gandhi.
5. Why do you think the author chose to write about Florence Nightingale?
Ans:Because she was born in wealth family but she sacrifice to help the sick and dying people.
6.Who do you think had the most lasting impact on others? Why?
Ans:I think Florence Nightingale because she was a women from healthy family and what she did was giving without getting back.
7.Why is it important for all children to get and education?
Ans:So their knowledge improve their society and their lives.
8.Describe someone you think is extraordinary. Why is that person special? What has he or she achieved?
Ans:I think King Bhumibhol is an extraordinary people because he help people all over Thailand. He scarified himself for the poor in every way. The things he do is worth for Thai people and almost all Thai people love and respect him. He achieved by seeing Thai people living better and imporve Thailand.
Vocabulary
Social justice,fairness for all people
Colonizing, controlling a country and sending your own people to live there.
Reforms, changes that improve a system
Wealthy, very rich
Apartheid, a system in which different races in a country are separated
Inspired, caused; influenced people to express interest in
Economic, relating to business, industry, and managing money
Polio, an infectious disease of the nerves in the spine that can cause paralysis
Impaired, damaged, or less strong, or less good
Frustrated, upset because you can't do something.
Adversity, difficulties or problems
Borders, Official lines that separate two countries
Administrators, people who manage businesses or organizations
Nutrition, food for good health and growth
Sanitation, hygiene; cleanliness
Atrocities, extremely violent action
Reading 3
Comprehesion Question
1. Zlata says that she doesn't write about herself anymore. What does she write about now?
Ans:She wrote about war,death,injuries shells sadness and sorrow.
2.What happened on Vaso Miskin Street?
Ans:There are two bombs exploded in the street and one in the market.
3.How have Zlata's parents changed since the war began?
Ans:They has loss a lot of weight and they look older with wrinkles.
4.What is Zlata's method for coping with the stress of war?
Ans:By writing a diary.
5.How does Zlata think life in Sarajevo has changed since the war started?
Support your answer by evaluating information in the text.
Ans:Since the war start people was killed,injured,despair and there is a lot of crime. Life is tough, the shortage of wood and food, there is no water or electricity for along time.
6.What does Zlata think about the "kids" ability to establish peace?Support your answer by evaluating information in the text.
Ans:She doesn't think that the kids can kids can establish peace because the kids just trying to outwit each other.
7.Do you think that a diary could influence people to be more tolerant and less likely to go to war?Explain.
Ans:Maybe,it depends on the reader because some reader care it will be less likely to go to war. And some readers don't care nothing will happen.
8.If you kept a diary, would you want it to be published and read by others?
Or would you want it to be only for yourself? Explain.
Ans:I would want it to be published and read by others because I want people to know how it feel like to be in a war.
Vocabulary
Shells,bombs
Grown-ups,adults
Emergency Clinic, place to go for emergency medical attention
Nag, person who asks for something again and agian
Beside ourselves, very worried
I've got a lump in my throat, I feel like crying
Know in my tummy, bad feeling about something
Madhouse, place where everyone seems crazy
Tearing our hair out, feeling very worried
Dismembered bodies, bodies with missing arms or legs
The"kids," Zlata's slang for the politicians
Outwit, be more clever than; trick
Wind up, end up; finally be
Colleagues,fellow workers
Walking my feet off, walking a lot
Czerny,Bach,Mozart,and Chopin, composers who wrote piano music
For ages, for a long time
Shortage, lack
Back to earth, back to reality
Scattered, spread out
Latter, the second of two things or people
Wrinkles, lines on the face or skin that people get as they age
Comprehesion Question
1. Zlata says that she doesn't write about herself anymore. What does she write about now?
Ans:She wrote about war,death,injuries shells sadness and sorrow.
2.What happened on Vaso Miskin Street?
Ans:There are two bombs exploded in the street and one in the market.
3.How have Zlata's parents changed since the war began?
Ans:They has loss a lot of weight and they look older with wrinkles.
4.What is Zlata's method for coping with the stress of war?
Ans:By writing a diary.
5.How does Zlata think life in Sarajevo has changed since the war started?
Support your answer by evaluating information in the text.
Ans:Since the war start people was killed,injured,despair and there is a lot of crime. Life is tough, the shortage of wood and food, there is no water or electricity for along time.
6.What does Zlata think about the "kids" ability to establish peace?Support your answer by evaluating information in the text.
Ans:She doesn't think that the kids can kids can establish peace because the kids just trying to outwit each other.
7.Do you think that a diary could influence people to be more tolerant and less likely to go to war?Explain.
Ans:Maybe,it depends on the reader because some reader care it will be less likely to go to war. And some readers don't care nothing will happen.
8.If you kept a diary, would you want it to be published and read by others?
Or would you want it to be only for yourself? Explain.
Ans:I would want it to be published and read by others because I want people to know how it feel like to be in a war.
Vocabulary
Shells,bombs
Grown-ups,adults
Emergency Clinic, place to go for emergency medical attention
Nag, person who asks for something again and agian
Beside ourselves, very worried
I've got a lump in my throat, I feel like crying
Know in my tummy, bad feeling about something
Madhouse, place where everyone seems crazy
Tearing our hair out, feeling very worried
Dismembered bodies, bodies with missing arms or legs
The"kids," Zlata's slang for the politicians
Outwit, be more clever than; trick
Wind up, end up; finally be
Colleagues,fellow workers
Walking my feet off, walking a lot
Czerny,Bach,Mozart,and Chopin, composers who wrote piano music
For ages, for a long time
Shortage, lack
Back to earth, back to reality
Scattered, spread out
Latter, the second of two things or people
Wrinkles, lines on the face or skin that people get as they age
reading 4
Comprehension Questions
1.Why can't Owen be returned to the wild?
Ans:Because he can't take care of himself and others hippos will think he is an intruder.
2.Where was Owen born?
Ans:He was born in Kenya.
3.How does Mzee's attitude toward Owen change?
Ans:First, Mzee was shocked and surprised, he always try to crawl away from Owen. Over the next few days, the two animals became good friend they spend all their time together,eating,swimming,sleeping,and playing. They refuse to be separated.
4.How is symbiosis similar to friendship? How is it different?
Ans:It is similar because two living are cooperating each other and be friends.Symbiosis has no friendship or companionship.
5.What helped the writer infer that Mzee and Owen have become great friends?
Ans:They refused to be separated.
6.What main idea, or overall concept, does "Friendship and Cooperation in the Animal Kingdom" present?
Ans:The main idea is two species of animal can live together and cooperate each other in a good way to stay alive.
7.Why do you think the author says,"It's a dog-eat-dog' world out there"? What do you think the author means?
Ans:Animals life in the wild are very competitive,animals struggle everyday to survive.
8.What examples can you think of in which animals help people survive?
Ans:Butterfly is one of the animal that help people survive. Butterfly help spread the pollen for the plants and people needs plant for living and it also predict climate change which is useful for people.
Vocabulary
"Dog-eat-dog," Very Competitive
Coral reef, line of hard material formed by the skeletons of small ocean creatures that live in warm water
Tickle,Touch a person or animal lightly, often in order to make him or her laugh
1.Why can't Owen be returned to the wild?
Ans:Because he can't take care of himself and others hippos will think he is an intruder.
2.Where was Owen born?
Ans:He was born in Kenya.
3.How does Mzee's attitude toward Owen change?
Ans:First, Mzee was shocked and surprised, he always try to crawl away from Owen. Over the next few days, the two animals became good friend they spend all their time together,eating,swimming,sleeping,and playing. They refuse to be separated.
4.How is symbiosis similar to friendship? How is it different?
Ans:It is similar because two living are cooperating each other and be friends.Symbiosis has no friendship or companionship.
5.What helped the writer infer that Mzee and Owen have become great friends?
Ans:They refused to be separated.
6.What main idea, or overall concept, does "Friendship and Cooperation in the Animal Kingdom" present?
Ans:The main idea is two species of animal can live together and cooperate each other in a good way to stay alive.
7.Why do you think the author says,"It's a dog-eat-dog' world out there"? What do you think the author means?
Ans:Animals life in the wild are very competitive,animals struggle everyday to survive.
8.What examples can you think of in which animals help people survive?
Ans:Butterfly is one of the animal that help people survive. Butterfly help spread the pollen for the plants and people needs plant for living and it also predict climate change which is useful for people.
Vocabulary
"Dog-eat-dog," Very Competitive
Coral reef, line of hard material formed by the skeletons of small ocean creatures that live in warm water
Tickle,Touch a person or animal lightly, often in order to make him or her laugh