Context Clues Mini Lesson

Multiple Choice

What does "baffled" mean?

• confused

• angered

• overjoyed

• present

Multiple Choice

What does "peril" mean?

• hunger

• danger

• sickness

• safety

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Highlight the clues that helped you determine the answers to #1 and #2!

(Context clues that helped you understand what baffled and peril mean)

Multiple Choice

What inference can be drawn from the passage?

• John White believed that the colonists had not survived

• The colonists did not want John White to know where they went

• John White believed the colonists were still alive

• The colonists took a rocket ship to Mars

Multiple Choice

What does "deduced" mean?

• betrayed

• explained

• assumed

• cried

Multiple Choice

What does "establish" mean?

• destroy

• invest

• create

• follow

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Click on the context clues that helped you determined the meaning of deduced and establish.

Multiple Choice

What effect did the weather have on White's search?

• White was able to search for the colonists despite the weather

• The weather had no effect on White's search

• The delay caused by the weather was part of the reason White never determined the fate of the colony

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What are the context clues that help you understand what frumious mean?​ ​​

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What are the context clues that help you understand  manxome?


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Multiple Choice

manxome is a(n)...

• verb

• adverb

• noun

• adjective

Multiple Choice

Based on the context, what is the definition of whiffing?

• To run; to travel

  
  

• To eat; to devour

  
  

• To be confused

  
  

• monster

Multiple Choice

Based on the context, what is the definition of galumphing?

• To walk slowly; to resist

  
  

• To walk triumphantly

  
  

• Silly, funny

  
  

• To sing

  
  

Multiple Choice

Based on the context, what is the definition of frabjous?

• To dance

  
  

• To sing

  
  

• Happy; glad

  
  

• confusing

  
  

• Sad

  
  

Open Ended

Write one word that you think best describes the Jabberwocky based on the context clues in the text? 

(Does not have to be a word from the text.) 

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Open Ended

How did you imagine the Jabberwocky? 

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