The Story of Three Whales

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The Story of Three Whales

• Unit 2 Kindness
• Story 6
• By Mrs. Nailon

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lurk

• To hide in or about a place

Electric eel
snake
Electric eels lurk under pitch-black overhangs
of rock.
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surface

• To rise to the top of any liquid

Whales surface to breathe air.
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trudged

• Walked or marched with great effort

The man trudged slowly through the mud.
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plight

• A bad condition or situation

Everyone read about the terrible plight of the
whales.
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invincible

• Impossible to defeat

The undefeated soccer team was invincible!!
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ordeal

• Something that is difficult to do
• Challenge

The hard science test was an ordeal.
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Pack-ice

• Ice frozen thick on top of water

Thick pack-ice spread out from the shore and its
shadow fell over the whales.
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plunging

• diving

The herd of whales were plunging and rolling,
leaping and belly-flopping off the north coast of
Alaska.
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Inuit

• Alaskan Indian

An Inuit hunter passed and saw the trapped whales.
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Ice-poles

• Poles used to make holes in the ice.

People used axes, chainsaws, and ice-poles to
make breathing holes for the whales.
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Sky-crane
Concrete torpedo
Ice breaker