Birchbark House vocabulary

a serious disease that causes fever and a rash and often death

• smallpox

• dagwaging

• tobbogans

• makazins

to change (the skin of an animal) into leather by a chemical process

• roast

• tan

• photosynthesis

• perch

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

the skin of a usually large animal

• shawl

• leather

• hide

• tether

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

tall and thin

• rangy

• indignant

• skeptical

• poisonous

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.RL.5.4

anger caused by something that is unfair or wrong

• missionary

• smallpox

• cache

• indignation

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

a person who is sent to a foreign country to do religious work (such as to convince people to join a religion or to help people who are sick, poor, etc.)

• tobbogans

• missionary

• smallpox

• cache

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

a flat shoe that is made of soft leather and is similar to a shoe originally worn by some Native Americans

• makazins

• tobbogans

• indignation

• tan

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

to put (someone or something) on something high or on something from which it is easy to fall

• tan

• perch

• dive

• glide

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

to cause (something, such as a feeling) to be strong or active again

• rekindled

• sparked

• ignite

• burned

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.RL.5.4

a group of things that have been hidden in a secret place

• tobbogans

• cache

• hide

• smallpox

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4