Across
- 2. In Florida, when the weather gets above 70 degrees, we consider it warm, but in the Dakota Territory in 1888, 20 degree air felt almost ___________ to the children after weeks of frozen weather. P. 5
- 4. Synonyms for this word are “activated,” “organized,” and “assembled for action.” P. 9-10
- 6. Not even experts like First ________ Thomas Woodruff accurately predicted the weather in the area around Groton. P. 7-8
- 9. When Walter was being spun, swatted, and knocked over by the wind, the snow and ice swarmed around his body like _________ bees. P. 11
- 11. Some people learned never to trust the weather on America’s northern prairie and thought it was odd that the temperature had jumped more than forty degrees _____________. P. 5-6
- 12. Lauren Tarshis used a simile and imagery to describe how Walter felt, “It was as though he had __________ off Earth and into space – a frozen, swirling darkness. P. 11
- 16. This word means calculations and computations. In today’s day, we would call this subject “Mathematics.” P. 8
- 18. Groton, Dakota Territory, had brand-new settlers who had come from Europe, mostly Sweden, ___________, and Germany. P. 4
- 19. A familiar tree helped the Graber boys to find their __________ and get to their home. This word means “an understanding of directions and positions that helps you know where you are.” P.14
- 20. Synonyms for this word are massive, extensive, and immense. P. 6
- 22. In some areas of Nebraska and the Dakota Territory, the temperature had plunged to 40 degrees below _________! P. 4
- 25. Stephan Ulrich spent the night curled up next to a hog, whose warmth __________ him from the cold. P. 14-15
- 26. Walter Allen’s first sign of the blizzard was when a roaring sound overtook the schoolhouse, shook the walls and _______ the door. P. 9
- 27. Eighteen-year-old Will got down on his hands and knees to search for his little brother, Walter. When he found him, Walter was alive but __________, which means “in the state of being unawake and unaware.” P. 16 & 17
- 30. A seventeen-year-old teacher tied her sixteen students together with a rope and led them through the storm to a _____________________. P. 14
- 31. This word means “the ability to bounce back after a challenge or a setback or the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness, sturdiness.” Page 2 of Author’s Note
Down
- 1. Lauren Tarshis is the editor of the Scholastic magazine called _________ (Enter the name of the magazine). Page 1 of Author’s Note
- 3. This word means “a wide area of flat land, covered with grass, a large area in central North America that was originally covered by grass and is now mainly farming land.” P. 3
- 5. On page 6, weather systems are described as _________ of air of different temperatures – that were about to crash together.
- 7. This word means “covered with a hard, thin surface layer.” Synonyms include: covered, caked and coated. P. 11
- 8. After it turned as dark as night, from out of ________, sheets of snow and ice pounded the schoolhouse. P. 9
- 10. This word is described on page 6 as a monstrous, frozen white hurricane of terrifying violence. P. 6
- 13. The Native American tribes that first settled the northern plains __________ to the south for the winters, which means “to have moved from one region or habitat to another according to the seasons.” P. 12
- 14. The teacher “kept a record” or “kept careful track” of every child who climbed onto a sled, so that every child was ________ for. P. 10
- 15. A person’s midriff is the part of the human body between the chest and the waist; it is also called the _______________. This word also describes the place where three separate weather systems were headed. P. 6
- 17. Being trapped in a tiny house built from bricks and hardened soil was cramped and smoky. The author describes it as ___________. P. 4
- 21. The warm air would soon smash into a sheet of freezing __________ air speeding down from Canada. P. 6
- 23. The tiny glass perfume bottle with the jewel-like lid was Walter Allen’s prized ____________. P. 8-9
- 24. The most dangerous weather system was the low-pressure system – a spinning mess of __________ air churning its way across the continent from the northeast. P. 6
- 28. Trains carrying food and coal were stranded due to ___________, which are “banks of deep snow heaped up by the wind.” P. 13
- 29. Lauren Tarshis uses the word __________ to describe Will and Walter’s parents’ emotions when their sons arrived home alive. It means joyousness and happiness. P. 17