Is Stones Could Speak - Chapter 1

Where is Stonehenge located?

• London, England

• Salisbury, England

• Rome, Italy

• Honolulu, Hawaii

When was Stonehenge built?

• 4,500 years ago

• In the 1300s

• In the 1740s

• 500 years ago

Who are the people studying Stonehenge in this book?

Choose all that apply.

• Marc Aronson

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Mike Parker Pearson

• The Riverside Project team

• Lucas de Heere

Who is Mike?

• Mike Parker Pearson

• A professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

• Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc.

• The leader of a group of scientists, called The Riverside Project Team.

What other sites make up the area around Stonehenge? (Check the map on pages 10-11.) Check all that match.

• A church or temple

• A black hawk

• Woodhenge

• Southern Circle

• Durrington Walls

On page 8, Aronson writes, "I think knowledge is more like a wave than a switch. Only very rarely do we go from being totally wrong to right - as a light turns off and on." What can we learn from this quote?

• There is only one right answer.

• You can turn your knowledge off and on like a switch.

• Knowledge comes and goes, just like a wave in the ocean.

• You have to get the answers to the questions to gain knowledge.

What are three main ideas of this chapter?

1. ______

2. _____

3. ______

__________ is defined as a field of knowledge

having to do with methods of solving problems

through research in science.

_________ is defined as what the section of text is mostly about. Each section has a __________, and the details in the paragraphs support the main ideas of the text. When you read, it is important to think about what ideas all of the details in the section are related to.”

Re-read paragraphs 4 and 5 (on pages 8-9). How do these paragraphs convey the central idea of the chapter? Write a summary of chapter 1, you should write a sentence about the main idea and then include details that explain that idea.