6.2 St. Matthews Island Review Session

6.2 St. Matthews Island

Main Idea & Details

Vocabulary

Russian Word Origins

Main Idea & Details

• The main idea is what the story is mostly about.

• Details explain or describe the main idea.

• The main idea can usually be found at the beginning of a paragraph, but sometimes you have to put the details together to make it.

Worth Every Center

A penny for your thoughts? If it's a 1943 copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies where made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double-die penny. These pennies were accidentally double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it's uncirculated, it'd easy fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that is a pretty penny.

Open Ended

Read the paragraph. What is the main idea of the passage?

A penny for your thoughts? If it's a 1943 copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies where made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double-die penny. These pennies were accidentally double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it's uncirculated, it'd easy fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that is a pretty penny.

Open Ended

The main idea from the paragraph below is some pennies are worth a lot of money.

What are two supporting details from the passage?

A penny for your thoughts? If it's a 1943 copper penny, it could be worth as much as fifty thousand dollars. In 1943, most pennies where made out of steel since copper was needed for World War II, so the 1943 penny is ultra-rare. Another rarity is the 1955 double-die penny. These pennies were accidentally double stamped, so they have overlapping dates and letters. If it's uncirculated, it'd easy fetch $25,000 at an auction. Now that is a pretty penny.

Vocabulary

bleached - whitened by exposing to sunlight or chemicals

carcasses - the bodies of dead animals

decay - the wearing away of dead matter

parasites - living things that live on or in other living things and feed off of them

scrawny - having little flesh; skinny

starvation - suffering from extreme hunger

suspicions - beliefs, feelings or thoughts

tundra - a vast, treeless plain in arctic regions

Multiple Choice

Reindeer live in the ______.

• bleached

• tundra

• decay

• carcasses

• scrawny

Multiple Choice

A tick is a ______ that lives off the blood of other living things.

• decay

• scrawny

• suspicions

• parasite

• bleached

Multiple Choice

Some animals feed on ______.

• starvation

• decay

• scrawny

• carcasses

• tundra

Multiple Choice

The reindeer on St. Matthew's Island were ______.

• tundra

• bleached

• scrawny

• decay

• suspicions

Multiple Choice

The bone marrow showed that ______ was the possible cause of death.

• starvation

• suspicions

• scrawny

• tundra

• bleached

Multiple Choice

The bones were ______ by the sun.

• starvation

• tundra

• decay

• bleached

• suspicions

Multiple Choice

They process where matter is broken down is called ______.

• starvation

• carcasses

• tundra

• decay

• starvation

Multiple Choice

The scientists had _____ about what happened to the reindeer.

• suspicions

• decay

• parasite

• scrawny

• starvation

Russian Word Origins

• Tundra - cold, barren land

• Mammoth - very large

• Czar - emperor or ruler

Steppe

• Russian origin

• Plains or flat land

• Plains cover much of Russia

Blintzes

• Russian origin

• Filled pancake

• These pancakes are enjoyed in Russia for breakfast

Samovar

• Russian origin

• Large teapot

• This was used in Russian tea ceremonies.