Vocabulary KEY WORDS ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING WORDS WORTH KNOWING General teaching suggestions are provided in the Introduction in Ghost towns Grubstakes, strike, tattered, crusty, cantankerous, crevices Frontier provided Relics Lifeless, homeless, solitude, resourceful DEFINITION clues Territory Forty-niners, Squatter’s rights text Economic failure Simpering, stalwart, dauntless the Inhabitants Transcontinental PROVIDES contextual False front enough TEACHER not in MEANING Trough, weathered, centuries provided Longed for, pull up stakes, evidence Minerals, prosperity THE are Tumbleweeds Prarie sod OUT text clues Faint outline Skirted the Migration Immigrants Vacant FIGURE context STUDENTS sufficient
Vocabulary KEY WORDS ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING WORDS WORTH KNOWING General teaching suggestions are provided in the Introduction TEACHER PROVIDES DEFINITION not enough contextual clues provided in the text Relics Territory Economic failure Inhabitants Ghost towns Grubstakes, strike, tattered, crusty, cantankerous, crevices Frontier Lifeless, homeless, solitude, resourceful Forty-niners, Squatter’s rights Simpering, stalwart, dauntless Transcontinental False front STUDENTS FIGURE OUT THE MEANING sufficient context clues are provided in the text Longed for, pull up stakes, evidence Tumbleweeds Faint outline Immigrants Trough, weathered, centuries Minerals, prosperity Prarie sod Skirted Migration Vacant
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