Blizzard Ch 7 - 9 Probasco

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Across
  1. 2. Since it was getting cold, the snake would soon be ___________ so the boys would have to wait until next spring to attack it! P. 46
  2. 4. To try to protect their vegetable gardens, the settlers put _______ over the gardens, but the grasshoppers ate the ________! P. 37
  3. 7. The grasshoppers were _______ - they’d crawl up your pants, down your shirt, into your eyes and up your nose! P. 36
  4. 9. John was no longer afraid of the rattlesnake because he realized he might _______. P. 43
  5. 12. The massive rattlesnake’s forked tongue was _________ in and out, like a candle flame in the wind. P. 40
  6. 13. The six-foot long snake’s skin was dull gold and covered with black and white ___________. P. 41
  7. 16. Last winter, a Prairie Creek farmer, who was just 20 feet away from his house during a blizzard, wandered around in ______ until he finally collapsed in the snow. P. 48
  8. 17. King Rattler was looking at John with its mouth open - its _________ white fangs exposed. P. 42-43 The adjective means “long, slender, and pointed.”
  9. 18. This crop is what the grasshoppers came for -- it is a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. Synonyms include cereal, grass, grain, and bran. P. 37
  10. 19. This word means “moving in or forming a large or dense group.” Synonyms include: crowding, surging, teeming. P. 36
  11. 21. The boys were brainstorming why the grasshoppers hadn’t come back to Dakota. Peter said that maybe Miss Ruell _______ them away. P. 38
  12. 23. This word means, “to stop resisting an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.” P. 42
  13. 24. This word means “the land alongside or sloping down to a river, lake or creek.” P. 39
Down
  1. 1. The grasshopper attack started with a cloud appearing in the sky, so Sven said it looked like a ____________ was coming. P. 35
  2. 3. Even though the settlers tried to get rid of the grasshoppers by setting fires, shooting guns, and dumping water, the grasshoppers stuck to the wheat like ________. P. 37
  3. 5. After his fall into the freezing water, John realized that the guys weren’t mad him. They were ______ about him. P. 45
  4. 6. To imitate the strange sound of “millions of grasshoppers,” Peter started to click his _______ really fast. P. 35
  5. 8. In Minnesota, the eggs did not die of freezing cold so they _______ and attacked four years in a row. P. 38
  6. 9. John slipped down the bank and landed in the churning water, which grabbed him and sent him _________. P. 43
  7. 10. After John clawed his way up the bank, he was coughing and _______ as he tried to catch his breath. P. 44
  8. 11. The boys had faced down King Rattler, the _______ snake in Dakota! P. 46
  9. 14. __________ is the study of how sentences in a specific language are constructed. It refers to the features and rules of the language that help listeners and readers understand what is trying to be communicated. P. 45
  10. 15. John had learned to _______ the different clouds that appeared in the sky. P. 47
  11. 18. John was thinking about the snake coiling, springing, attacking – the thoughts raced in John’s mind, like water spinning in a ________. P. 41
  12. 20. In Dakota, settler made money by growing and selling; owning a store, or working for the __________. P. 38
  13. 22. When the boys were pumping their fists, bellowing, cheering and hooting, John felt like he was at a White _______ game. P. 47