Antarctic Journal - Grade 4

Anticipation

• looking forward to, expectation
• act or process of meeting at a point
• to go away
• rises and falls alternately

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Continent

• one of the seven great landmasses on Earth
• to go away
• causing fear or dislike
• act of anticipating

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

Convergence

• act of process of meeting at a point
• to go away
• large masses of ice 
• rises and falls alternately

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

Depart

• to go away
• rises and falls alternately
• causing fear or dislike
• looking forward to

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Forbidding

• causing fear or dislike
• act of anticipating
• one of the seven great landmasses
• to go away

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Heaves

• rises and falls alternately
• to go away
• looking forward to
• act or process of meeting at a point

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Icebergs

• large masses of ice detached from glaciers and floating the the sea
• to go away
• one of the seven great landmasses 
• act or process of meeting at a point

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Where did our story this week take place?

• The Arctic Circle
• Antarctica
• Australia
• North America

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Based on the information in the selection, you can conclude that-

• there are not any birds in Antarctica

• living in Antarctica is easy for people

• traveling by inflatable boat is always dangerous

• there is a danger of getting stranded on an island in a storm

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

What surprising fact does the author learn about blue whales?

• they only eat krill

• they live only in Antarctica

• they are afraid of oceanographers

• they are the largest animals on Earth

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.2