From Mississippi Solo Vocabulary

A memoir is

• a story about someone's life

• a big event about a friend

• an autobiographical account of someone's personal experiences or significant events; written in first person

• the life events of someone important

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Affect is a (what part of speech), and it means

• Adjective, and it means to have an influence on or effect a change in something.

• Verb, and it means to have an influence on or effect a change in something.

• Verb, and it means to make something happen.

• Noun, and it means to effect change in something.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

To allow something to break up into sharp, thin pieces means

• Capture

• Branch

• Splinter

• Lump

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When you insulate something, you

• Let heat or cool air in and out

• Open a window in the house and car to keep air flowing out.

• Prevent the passage of heat through it.

• Allow the passage of heat through it.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A large mass of snow, ice, dirt, or rocks falling quickly down the side of mountain is the definition of an

• Earthquake

• Tsunami

• Avalanche

• Tornado

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the passage from the excerpt, Mississippi Solo and then determine which word best completes the sentence. "I was more amazed than anything, trying to analyze the voice I had heard or whatever instinct or intuition it was that urges me to park in these trees. It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so _____________ that I could not put my finger on it."

• insulate

• splinter

• ethereal

• specify

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An element is

• something that affects the weather

• a part or aspect of something

• to make sure or certain

• to have an influence on something

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

To make sure or certain means

• certainly

• ensure

• participate

• specify

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which word means to state exactly or in detail what you want or need, and is related to the word forms nonspecific, specification, specific heat?

• ensure

• participate

• specify

• affect

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which word means to be active and involved in something or to share in something, and is related to the word forms participation, participator, non-participant?

• specify

• practice

• pertinent

• participate

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A