Key Words | Academic Words | Changing Earth | Harlem: Then and Now | From Through My Eyes |
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What are fertilizers?
Farmers use them to make the soil richer so that plants can grow better.
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What is alternative?
Something you can use or do instead of something else.
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What is recharge?
To put more energy into a battery.
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What is thirteen years old?
This is how old James Baldwin was when he wrote Harlem: Then and Now.
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What is 1954?
This is the year when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the end of school segregation.
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What is fuels?
Oil, natural gas, and coal are this. They are natural materials that form under the ground.
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What is communicate?
Ways of relating, such as speaking or writing.
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What are batteries?
Objects that store electricity to power other objects.
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What is 1664?
This is when settlers first inhabited Harlem.
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What are Louisiana and Mississippi?
These are the states in the 1950s which continued to have all-white schools.
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What is hybrid?
This kind of cars run on a combination of gasoline and battery power instead of gasoline alone.
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What is enable?
Make something possible.
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What is determine?
Control; decide.
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What is asphalt streets?
This is what replaced the muddy roads of Harlem in the nineteenth century.
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What is Johnson Lockett Elementary School?
This is where Ruby Bridges went to kindergarten.
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What is microscopic?
Scientists need special instruments to see this kind genes because they are very small.
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What is focus?
Concentrate on or give special attention.
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What is efficiently?
Adverb that means "without wasting energy or effort".
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What is change?
This is the author's theme in the story of Harlem: Then and Now.
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What is the NAACP?
Members of this Association that convinced Ruby’s parents to allow her to go to an all-white school.
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What are resources?
This kind of earth’s natural ones include things such as food, trees, water, oil, and coal.
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What is regulation?
Official rule or order.
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What are weeds?
Unwanted wild plants.
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What are tenements?
This is what author suggests to be rebuilt?
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What is Lucille?
This is Ruby's mother's first name.
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