Voices of The Revolution Story Strategy Summarize Genre Skill & Cause & Effect Historical Fiction 2
American Revolution
Key Vocabulary arming drilling fierce just kin peered rebels skirmish skittish
Strategy Focus What would it be like to be a Tory if your neighbors were Patriots? When you read, summarize the conflict between Katie’s family and their neighbors.
The reason something happens is called a cause. The event that happens as a result is the effect. Sometimes readers can figure out what effect an event has had by asking, “What happened because of this event?”
Objectives We will: Identify the reason something happens as the cause. Identify something that happens as a result as the effect. Learn academic language: Cause, effect
Practice Book #160
Selection 2
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arming Providing with weapons
drilling doing exercises to become efficient soldiers
fierce ferocious
Just Honorable and fair
Kin People related by blood or marriage
rebels People who oppose or defy the government that exists
skirmish A small, short fight between enemies
skittish Nervous and jumpy
peered looked at with concentration