by Michael McCurdy

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Trapped by Ice!

• by Michael McCurdy

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Selection Vocabulary

• endurance
• ration
• voyage
• terrain
• explorer

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endurance Which strategy (WAC) will you use?

• The Endurance was trapped. Giant blocks of
  ice were slowly crushing her sides.
• Anyone who runs a marathon must have great
  endurance.
• endurance n the power to put up with
  hardships or difficulties
  syn

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ration Which strategy (WAC) will you use?

• Tools, tents, scrap lumber for firewood,
  sleeping bags, and what little food rations and
  clothing the men had left were saved from their
  ship
• Everyone on the camping trip brought rations
  to keep them fed through the five day trip.
• ration n. a fixed portion or share of food
• syn

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voyage Which strategy (WAC) will you use?

• The men landed near a small cave with a
  freshwater spring nearby. Both had suffered too
  much on the voyage and could not survive the long
  hike across the island to the whaling station.
• Our voyage to the Carribean was almost ruined
  by a hurricane.
• voyage n. a journey by water
• syn

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terrain Which strategy (WAC) will you use?

• Three times the men struggled up mountains,
  only to find that the terrain was impassable on
  the other side.
• Colorado is known for its mountainous terrain.
• terrain n. ground or land syn

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explorer Which strategy (WAC) will you use?

• The three explorers received a heros welcome
  from the whaling crew.
• The explorer hoped to map the unknown
  territory.
• explorer n. a person who goes to a place that
  one knows nothing about
  

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• This selection is a nonfiction narrative
• Facts about real people, places, or events are
  included
• The real people become characters the real
  places become settings and the real events
  become the plot
• Sometimes an author may add information about
  what a particular character is thinking or
  feeling even though the author could not really
  know this information

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• In 1911, Roald Amundsen was the first person to
  reach the South Pole.
• This selection takes place in 1914 during Sir
  Ernest Shackletons third trip to the Antartic.
  He set sail on the ship Endurance with hopes of
  crossing the polar ice cap.
• When Shackletons crew made this trip, there were
  no radios to call for help nor planes to bring
  supplies.