Ten Mile Day

The wagon ______________ forward, swaying and almost throwing me out the back.

• lurched

• prying

• previous

• deafening

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

leaned or rolled suddenly

• prying

• lurched

• barren

• deafening

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

____________ the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains below us.

• prying

• previous

• barren

• surveying

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

looking over or viewing

• surveying

• lurched

• prying

• deafening

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Like many immigrant families, we traveled west over miles of dry, ______________ lands.

• lurched

• previous

• barren

• deafening

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

unable to produce much or any plant life

• surveying

• barren

• lurched

• prying

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Everything we could take from our past, or ______________, life back in Boston was now in our covered wagon.

• previous

• prying

• barren

• deafening

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

coming or being before

• previous

• barren

• surveying

• prying

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

We were headed to California to try our luck ____________ gold from the earth to make our fortune.

• prying

• surverying

• previous

• barren

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

moving or forcing open; searching curiously

• prying

• previous

• lurched

• surveying

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4