Your job is to write down questions your group can discuss.

• 1 Cause/Effect
• 3 MCEOG
• 1 Problem/Solution

MCEOG
2.    From reading about the armadillo (p. 28 par.5 and p. 29 l. 1-4)
        the reader can conclude that the armadillo
        A.  swam underwater.
        B.  died.
        C.  rode an alligator's back.
        D.  was resting on the bottom of the lake.

3.     Fires in the Everglades were more dangerous, killing trees and
        burning down rich humus because  (p. 28)
        A.  they were hotter than in early days.
        B.  white man had put out fires and interrupted the cycle of life.
        C.  the climate was warmer.
        D. there were more people to start fires.

4.    Which word best describes Billie Wind in chapter 2?
        A. rude
        B. excited
        C.  attentive
        D.  tired

Problem/Solution
5.    Problem:  Billie Wind finds herself in the midst of a raging fire in the
        Everglades.
        Solution:  She jumps into water to wet herself, then lets herself down into
        the cave she discovers.  (p. 27 par. 3 and par. 6 )
 
 

    Your job is to choose passage from this chapter that you and your group
can discuss.
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1.    -
2.    p. 28 par. 1
3.    After a ...went out.
4.    I chose this passage because of the figurative language in it.
        Similes
         *Green limbs exploded like bullets.
         *Flames ran up and around trees like slithering serpents.
         *A burning limb hissed like a snake.
        Metaphor
         *The island was a fire box.
5.    Q:  To what senses does this passage appeal?
       A:  Seeing, hearing, touching
6.    Author's Purpose:  To describe sights/sounds of the burning
       Everglades.

1.    -
2.     p. 23 par.7
3.    Billie Wind...and ferns.
4.    I chose this passage because of the metaphor.
        "Tree trunks were gnarled totems."
5.    Q:  What plants did Billie Wind see growing in the forest?
       A:  Spanish moss, air plants, ferns
6.    Author's Purpose:  To describe sights of the forest where
       Billie Wind was trapped.

1.    -
2.    p. 18 par. 4
3.    Drifting down...the air.
4.    I chose this passage because it shows the relationship in a
       food chain.
5.    Q:  List the food chain in order from lowest to highest level.
       A:  Flower nectar, butterflies, red-winged blackbirds, snakes
            alligators.
6.    Author's Purpose:  To inform
 
 

    Your job is to find an interesting character from this section.  List the trait, then list actions that prove the trait.  List page and paragraph numbers.
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Billie Wind
Trait - Nervous  (p. 29 par. 1 and par. 7)
Action - Billie Wind watched the snakes slither down the wall and could
not sleep.  She thought the cave was a burial ground when she found the clay bowl in it.  Her boat was attacked by an alligator. (p. 23)

Trait - Observant
Action - Billie Wind found a dry cave (p. 26).  The air and wind was becoming hotter (p.22).  The animals were acting strangely (p. 26).
 
 

Choose four words from the following:

• wended  p. 24 par. 6
• marl  p. 21 par. 3
• mirage p. 22 par 2
• sheathed  p. 22 par. 6
• catapulted  p. 22 par. 6
• sloughs  p. 21 par. 2
• lichens  p. 25 par. 3
• ominous  p. 17 par. 1
• stifled  p. 17 par. 1
• estivate  p. 21 par. 3

1.    wended (p. 24 par. 6)
2.    She paused and popped the tart fruits into her mouth, then
        wended her way through a valley of ten-foot-high conte ferns
        and found herself in a mossy glade.
3.    Look the word up in a dictionary.
4.    wended - proceed to go one's way
5.    verb
6.    The baby wended its way through the aisles of the church.
7.    (word wizard card)

1.    lichens (p. 25 par. 3)
2.    She crossed the glade to a cluster of strap ferns with their long
       thin leaves, pushed past them and came upon a circle of soft
       lichens and moss.
3.    Look up the word in a dictionary.
4.    lichens - any of the numerous complex plants made up of an alga
       and a fungus growing together on a solid surface (such as a rock).
5.    noun
6.    The lichens were so thick that the rocks were extremely slick to walk
       on after the rain.
7.    (word wizard card)

 
 

       Your job is to report on pollution caused  by chemicals and
radiation from atomic weapons and nuclear reactors and list possible solutions.

Everglades advocates sue to shift cleanup burden to polluters.
 http://www.naplesnews.com/today/florida/a131107i.htm

Threatened Florida Everglades could still be saved.
 http://www.edf.org/pubs/EDF-Letter/1991/Jun/c_everglades.html

Contains more information on the key to the Everglades survival.
http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/1999/08/081099/lowbiodiv_4793.asp
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    Your job is to draw and color birds living in the habitat.

• woodpecker (p. 23)
• wood ibis  (p. 23)
• anhinga, a snake-necked water bird (p. 24)
• barred owl (p. 24)