Arctic Explorer

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Arctic Explorer
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• Define

Walruses

• Crevasses

Foxes
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• Inexperienced not an expert, new at doing
  something
• Independent alone, without help
• Unfriendly not friendly, not kind to strangers

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Some other things to know about
Caribou
Reindeer
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Trivia Fact When the Vikings were exploring the
world, they discovered two places. One Place was
covered in ice, the other was beautiful and
green. They didnt want Everyone to come and take
over their new discovery so they decided to trick
People by naming the countries as opposites.
Iceland
Greenland
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• How did we do?
• Expedition a journey made to accomplish
  something
• Arctic having to do with the North Pole

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• Glaciers large, slow moving masses of ice

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• Inuit the name the native people of the Arctic
  call themselves (Eskimos)

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• Trek a difficult trip or journey
• Peculiar strange or unusual
• Constellation a group of fixed stars having a
  name

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• Crevasses deep cracks in a glacier or in the
  earths surface
• Insulation a material that keeps heat from
  being lost

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Background Knowledge

• This is Matthew Henson. He was born in 1866. At
  14 he started to work on a sailing ship, where he
  learned navigation, carpentry, and mechanics. He
  also studies books in the captains library. When
  the captain died Matthew started to work for
  Robert Peary. Peary asked Henson to join him on
  an expedition to Greenland.

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Matthew Henson
Robert Peary
Their ship.
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• Inuit means real people. Eskimos (or Inuit) ate
  meat raw while it was still warm or frozen, which
  is why they smelled like walruses, seals, and
  blubber (whale fat).
• Eskimos did not take baths. A mother would clean
  her babies like a cat would clean her kittens.
• Why?

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Browse

• Open your OCR books to page 330.
• Scan the pages of this Nonfiction story. Pay
  attention to titles, captions, and bold words.
• Anything to add to the concept/question board?

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Purpose

• Why are reading this story?
• How does it meet our goals for the unit?
• How does it fit into the Survival Unit?

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