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Vocabulary M3W3
ELA
Term | Definition |
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historical event | made up of people, situations, or things that existed in the past and are considered to be part of history |
inference | use clues from what is read and what you know to draw a conclusion |
paraphrase | to put the ideas of a text or story into your own words |
summarize | the main points of the story told in your own words |
main idea | tells the reader what the paragraph or story is mostly about |
key details | important pieces of information that supports the main idea |
quote | exact words spoken by someone |
compare | show how things are similar |
contrast | show how things are different |
recruitment | the process of getting someone to join a group |
secede | to break away |
slavery | the owning of a person by another person |
Union | Northern states that stayed under a single government |