Code Talker Reading Group - Week 5

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Week 5: Read Chapters 20-25 (pages 141-182)


Vocabulary:

scythe (144)
propaganda (144)
shrapnel (145)
pulverized (147)
reef (149)
unsettling (150)
bluffs (150)
skirmishing (154)
devouring (161)
insubordination (171)
pillbox (174)
harass (174)


Questions:

1. Choose 2 vocabulary words and look up their definitions in a dictionary. Find the definition that most closely matches how each word is used in the book. Copy the definitions into your journal, and underline the word. Identify which dictionary you used. Write sentences for each word that shows you know what it means. Underline the vocabulary word in each sentence.

2. On the map from our week 1 assignment, locate and neatly label the Marianas Islands, Guam, and Iwo Jima.

3. Who were the Chamorros, and why had Ned “wanted to weep for them? (paragraph)

4. Explain what the kamikazes were, and where the name came from. (paragraph)