Storyworks Oct Nov 2023 This is the End of Chicago cau/eff full

This is the End of Chicago

Storyworks
October / November 2023
pages 4-9
Cause & Effect RI3

Multiple Choice

Why was Bessie on her own?

• She got separated from her parents and brother during the fire.

• She wanted to be independent.
• Her friends abandoned her.
• She got lost and couldn't find her way back.

​got separated
from her family

Multiple Choice

Which sentence best explains that Bessie was on her own because she got separated from her parents and brother?

• Thousands of people filled the streets.

• Their screams rose over the fire's crackling roar.

• Worst of all, Bessie couldn't find her parents and brother.

• Soon, much of Chicago would be destroyed,.

Multiple Select

What caused difficulties in fighting the Chicago fire?

(Choose all correct answers.)

• hot, dry weather

• strong winds

• wood everywhere

• Firefighters needed help.

• The technology to keep them safe wasn't working.

​got separated
from her family

​difficulties in fighting fires

Multiple Select

Choose all the causes of new fires.

• too few fire fighters

• tools weren't powerful enough

• the sky glowed orange

• wind carried embers

​got separated
from her family

​difficulties in fighting fires

​new fires

Multiple Select

Choose the effects of the fire.

• Bessie's parents found out that she was safe.

• Streets were filled with debris.

• Three hundred people died.

• One-third of the homes were destroyed.

​got separated
from her family

​difficulties in fighting fires

​new fires

​Chicago Fire of 1871

Drag and Drop

Because of the ​

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, laws were made to keep the city ​

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than before. For example, buildings ​

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be made from ​

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. They had to be built with materials that ​

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.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

fire

safer

wood

didn't burn easily

could no longer

​new laws

Wooden buildings made the fire difficult to fight.

Multiple Choice

What are the connections within the text?

• Some events happened due to other events.

• The facts tell how two things are the same and different.

• Events are in chronological order.

• Steps in a process are in order.

​new laws

Wooden buildings made the fire difficult to fight.

​Some events happened due to other events.

Match

Match the following causes to their effects.

• Nearly all houses and buddings were made of wood.

• only an inch of rain fell between July and September

• Firefighters fought the fire for hours.

• Bessie was caught in the middle of a crowd.

• The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Houses & buildings burned very easily.

There was a drought.

They were exhausted.

She was separated from her family.

homes destroyed; 300 dead; debris

• Houses & buildings burned very easily.

• There was a drought.

• They were exhausted.

• She was separated from her family.

• homes destroyed; 300 dead; debris