Wonders Unit 3 Week 5

Read this sentence from the article.

It included a series of rooms made of sandstone blocks,held together with a mixture of mud and water.

What words in the sentence help the reader understand what mixture means?

• it included

• mud and water

• series of rooms

• held together

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Read this sentence from the article.

Most things made of wood and cloth were destroyed by weather.

What point of view does this text evidence support?

• Much about the Cliff Palace people is unknown.

• Archaeologists do not study things made of wood and cloth.

• Archaeologists could not learn when the Cliff Palace was built.

• The Cliff Palace people did not use things made of wood and cloth.

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

Read this sentence from the article.

Archaeologists quickly came to study the ancient discovery.

What word in the sentence helps the reader understand what archaeologists means?

• ancient

• came

• discovery

• quickly

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

What evidence from the text supports the author’s point that people were amazed by the Cliff Palace?

• There were many different artifacts found at the Cliff Palace.

• A lot of information about the Cliff Palace was lost.

• The Cliff Palace was similar to other pueblos.

• People spent days visiting the Cliff Palace.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

With which sentence would the author most likely agree?

• People in the Cliff Palace lived a very difficult life.

• The Cliff Palace should have never been discovered.

• The Cliff Palace should have been protected from visitors.

• People in the Cliff Palace did not leave behind many things.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

Read this sentence from the article.

These artifacts included pieces of jars, mugs, axes, pots, baskets, and sandals.

What does the word artifacts mean in the sentence above?

• art

• facts

• objects

• rooms

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Which paragraph on page 175 would the following detail best support?

Their garbage included many artifacts that helped tell their story.

• paragraph 1

• paragraph 2

• paragraph 3

• paragraph 4

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Read this sentence from the article.

They knew it had been constructed by Native Americans,but they were not cognizant of when it was built.

The origin of the word cognizant is the Latin root cogn, which means “to know.” This suggests that cognizant means

• aware

• disbelieving

• surprised to find out

• working to discover

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Read these sentences from the article.

It includes many other cliff dwellings, too. The highlight of the park is the Cliff Palace because of its vast size and different kinds of rooms.

What does the word vast mean in the sentences above?

• large

• mountainous

• pretty

• small

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

What text evidence supports the author’s point that people enjoy being able to see the Cliff Palace?

• It is located on a mesa in Colorado.

• It was unprotected for many years.

• Thousands of people come to visit it every year.

• The people who lived there left over six hundred years ago.

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RL.4.5