GRADE 8 UNIT 4 TOPIC 2

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Across
  1. 1. The traders came to ________ people from the village and put them on a ship.
  2. 5. The book talks about ________ problems like slavery and violence.
  3. 7. People learn about slavery so this history will not ________ in the future.
  4. 8. The boy had to ________ as a slave on a plantation after he was taken from his home in Africa.
  5. 12. On the ship, the boy had to ________ hunger, fear, and darkness every single day.
  6. 15. The boy seems to ________ his father because he is strong and does not give up just like his father.
  7. 18. The master did not ________ the enslaved people well and often shouted at them.
  8. 19. In this chapter, the story ________ the boy’s first day working in a cotton field in the southern USA.
  9. 20. Enslaved people made a big ________ by growing cotton and other crops.
  10. 22. The boy felt great ________ when he had to say goodbye to his parents.
  11. 23. The story shows the unfair ________ between the slave owner and the enslaved people.
  12. 24. There was a ________ change in his life when men came at night and took him away from his village.
  13. 25. After his parents died, the boy was an ________ and had no family.
Down
  1. 2. Many students can ________ the boy’s fear when he is alone and far away from his family.
  2. 3. Life on the ship was ________: there was no space, no clean air, and many people were sick.
  3. 4. Some people in the USA today are ________s of enslaved Africans.
  4. 6. The writer uses small details (for example, the smell and the heat on the ship) to ________ the boy’s journey for the reader.
  5. 9. They worked on a ________ basis, which means every day without a break.
  6. 10. The book gives a clear ________ of the wooden hut where the enslaved people slept at night.
  7. 11. We should not ________ the boy for trying to escape, because his life was very hard.
  8. 13. In this ________ of the book, the boy is standing in a slave market and people are looking at him.
  9. 14. Every day, he had to ________ long hours of hard work in the hot sun.
  10. 16. The boy often thought about his ________s in Africa and his old life there.
  11. 17. The overseer was very ________ and hit people with a whip.
  12. 21. If a mother was a slave, her children would ________ the same life.