Storyworks vocabulary

What is the meaning of "feverishly"

• Having a high fever of 99 degrees or more

• Acting quickly due to a high fever

• To do something quickly out of excitement or fear.

• Acting quickly because it's fun!

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a "trading post"?

• A remote place where people can buy, sell, and trade things.

• A local grocery store

• A porch that is lit up

• A place where people exchange baseball cards.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is a "catastrophe"?

• A very small asteroid

• When you forget to put an apostrophe after the word "cat'

• A punctuation mark

• A horrible disaster

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is debris?

• Someone's name

• Scattered pieces of something that has been broken or destroyed

• A type of hair tie

• Burning atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

What are "orbits"?

• Spinning around in circles

• Planets moving from place to place

• Leftover space rocks

• Circular paths of objects going around the sun or a planet

What is "sacred"?

• Holy, or having to do with religion

• A certain type of rock

• Item of clothes that have many holes in it.

• Meteorites from ancient civilizations

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

What is the "Solar System"?

• A really cool system of doing things.

• A sun and the planets, moons, and other objects that move around it.

• When a rock burns up in Earth's atmosphere.

• The sun and the heat it gives off!!

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What are "shock waves"?

• When someone says something outrageous and shocks everyone

• Very strong waves of air pressure, often caused by an explosion

• Thunderous waves

• Water pounding again the sand at the beach

What does "hurtling" mean?

• The name of America's Research Space Agency

• When you hurt someone standing next to you.

• A space rock that has exploded

• To move very quickly in an uncontrolled and possibly dangerous way

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is "unpiloted"?

• Redirecting an asteroid.

• Too many pilots on one ship

• When a pilot becomes undone.

• If a ship is unpiloted, there is no one steering it.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4