Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Reading Comprehension MSD5, Topic 2


Reading Comprehension


My Sidewalks on Reading Street:  MS-D5, Topic 2- Past Times

Name: _____________________ No. ___ Class ______ Date/Day _____________________



A.  Ancient Builders   Choose the correct answer from the box:
American Indians        burial places                            Cahokia                       architects
Lake Erie                     fiction                                      Mound People                        building mounds
tombs                         hunting and gathering food      leader                           rivers
child                            Great Lakes                             architects                     nonfiction
American settlers        beaches                                    artifacts



1.  The genre of the reading Ancient Builders is  ______________________.
2.  The ______________ was one of the Native American groups.
3-4  They lived along bodies of water such as ________, ______ and the Gulf of Mexico.
5.  They were different from each other, but one thing they had in common was _________.
6.  The mounds they built served as large graves or ____________.
7.  A new mound was built on top of the old mound where the _______ that died was buried.
8.  The ____________ mound was 100 feet tall.
9.  Mounds in the ______________ were often low.
10. The Mound People built their mounds in the shape of birds and other animals because they were great ____________.
11.  _____________ in the 1700s destroyed some of the mounds because they didn’t know that they were ___________.
12.  The Mound People buried their dead with jewelry and ____________.

HOW WERE THE MOUNDS DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER? (3 POINTS)
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B.  It’s Still Standing  Put a check (ü) if the statement is true.  If the statement is false, write the correct word to make it true.
1.  The setting of the story is in Greece.        ________________
2.  The Parthenon is a market place.   __________
3.  The Theater at Delphi is almost 3,000 years old. ________________
4.  They played football at this theater.  _______________
5.  Zeus was the king of the Greek gods. ______________
6.  Katie held a picture of amphora, a temple, to show Chris.     _______________
7.  Katie thought her town was exciting.           _________________
8.  They heard the church bells rang as they walked to the park.   ________________
9.  Chris’s great-great-grandfather helped build the town hall. ________________
10.  The children saw a __________ of the previous town mayor.  _________________

C.  Why did Chris and Katie think that their town was not as boring as they first thought it was?  (5 points)

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