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5th Grade Key Vocabulary

Theme 1: Nature's Fury

Earthquake Terror
  1. debris
  2. devastation
  3. fault
  4. impact
  5. jolt
  6. shuddered
  7. susceptible
  8. undulating
  9. upheaval
Eye of the Storm
  1. collide
  2. funnel cloud
  3. jagged
  4. lightning
  5. prairies
  6. rotate
  7. severe
  8. sizzling
  9. tornadoes
Volcanoes
  1. cinders
  2. crater
  3. crust
  4. eruption
  5. lava
  6. magma
  7. molten
  8. summit
Theme 2: Give It All You've Got

Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion
  1. amateur
  2. artistic
  3. audience
  4. compete
  5. elements
  6. judges
  7. presentation
  8. pressure
  9. required
  10. technical
La Bamba

  1. applause
  2. debut
  3. duo
  4. embarrassed
  5. forty-five record
  6. limelight
  7. pantomime
  8. rehearsal
  9. talent

The Fear Place

1.  cautious
2.  concentrate
3.  discomfort
4.  dismayed
5.  excitement
6.  immobile
7.  stamina
8.  terrified
9.  unsure

Mae Jemison: 
Space Scientist

  1. astronaut
  2. launches
  3. mission
  4. orbit
  5. reusable
  6. satellite
  7. space shuttle
  8. specialist
  9. weightlessness
Theme 3: Voices of the Revolution
And Then What Happened, 
Paul Revere?

  1. cargo
  2. colonies
  3. express
  4. liberty
  5. oppose
  6. Patriot
  7. revolutionary
  8. sentries
  9. taxes
Katie's Trunk

  1. arming
  2. drilling
  3. fierce
  4. just
  5. kin
  6. peered
  7. rebels
  8. skirmish
  9. skittish
James Forten

  1. abolitionist
  2. apprentice
  3. assisted
  4. captives
  5. conflict
  6. dread
  7. encouraged
  8. enslavement
  9. influential
  10. privateers
  11. tacking
Theme 4: Person to Person

Mariah Keeps Cool

  1. amazingly
  2. celebration
  3. decorate
  4. detain
  5. festive
  6. honor
  7. reluctant
  8. spectators
  9. suspects
Mom's Best Friend

  1. attachment
  2. Braille
  3. dog guide
  4. instinct
  5. layout
  6. mastered
  7. mature
  8. memorizing
  9. obedience
  10. obstacles
Yang the Second 
and Her 
Secret Admirers

  1. accompaniment
  2. demonstration
  3. heritage
  4. impressed
  5. noble
  6. opera
  7. rhythmic
  8. tradition
Dear Mr. Henshaw

  1. diary
  2. disappointed
  3. experience
  4. prose
  5. rejected
  6. snoop
  7. splendid
  8. submitted
  9. understanding
Theme 5: One Land, Many Trails

 Boy Called Slow

  1. custom
  2. determination
  3. extended
  4. inherited
  5. raid
  6. reputation
  7. respect
Pioneer Girl

  1. claim
  2. convinced
  3. discouraged
  4. fertile
  5. heifer
  6. homestead
  7. immigrants
  8. prairie
  9. sod
Black Cowboy, 
Wild Horses

  1. bluff
  2. herd
  3. mares
  4. milled
  5. mustangs
  6. ravine
  7. remorse
  8. skittered
  9. stallion
Elena

  1. condolences 
  2. dictator
  3. notorious
  4. rugged
  5. sombreros
  6. transformed
  7. urgently
  8. wounds
Theme 6: Animal Encounters

The Grizzly Bear 
Family Book

  1. abundant
  2. aggressive
  3. carcass
  4. caribou
  5. dominance
  6. subservience
  7. territory
  8. tundra
  9. wariness
  10. wilderness
Golden Lion Tamarin 
Comes Home

  1. canopy
  2. captive
  3. dilemma
  4. extinction
  5. genes
  6. habitat
  7. humid
  8. observation
  9. predators
  10. reintroduction
My Side of 
the Mountain

  1. cache
  2. fashion
  3. harsh
  4. harvesting
  5. migration
  6. storehouse
  7. survival