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The Birchbark House - Vocabulary
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The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
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The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich, describes a year in the life of Omakayas, a Ojibwa girl living on Moningwanaykaning, an island in Lake Superior. Engage students with premade activities and lesson plan ideas with Storyboard That!
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- Slide: 1
- FEROCIOUS
- Leave Omakayas alone! This is your last warning. Touch her and you die!
- "She was powerful, lean, and lived surrounded by ferocious animals more wolf that dog..."(Adj.): violently cruel
- Slide: 2
- KINNIKINNICK
- "... she stores her red willow kinnikinnick."(N.): a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco
- Slide: 3
- ENIGMATIC
- "Her smile was generous, enigmatic, slightly crooked, and kind."(Adj.): mysterious
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