Bartering for Basics (RI 7.2)

Barting for Basics

We will read the passage and answer questions.

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Some Native American tribes had a surplus of materials.

• Not all goods were accessible to Native Americans in their area.

• Native Americans would use bartering: a way to get goods and services without money.

• Different groups of Native Americans specialized in different skills.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage best introduces the central idea?

• "Native American groups began to work with each other to simplify

  their work and share items they wanted or needed."

• "Tribal members of the Desert

  Southwest region wanted tools fashioned from whalebone."

• "Early Native American groups lived in different cultural regions."

• "In an economy, goods, services and often money are

  organized into a system to manage those resources."

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the passage best supports the idea that bartering has not completely disappeared from our society?

• "Native American tribes would often travel long distances for

  the opportunity to trade with each other."

• "Especially in tough economic times, people return to this age-old way of getting things that they need."

• "In an economy, goods, services and often money are organized into a system to manage those resources."

• "For the first time in their tribes’ history, they had a surplus

  of materials."

Fill in the Blanks

Would you try bartering?

Why or why not?

Where have you seen bartering before?