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MODELING GATHERING, INTERPRETING, AND CONTEXTUALIZING INFORMATION

DIRECTIONS: Complete the following:

1. Read the document silently. Do NOT worry about some words you may not know.
2. Turn and talk to determine what are facts (something that can be proven) and what are
inferences (these are guesses based on the information).
3. Highlight FIVE facts and FIVE inferences and then annotate them in your document.
4. Annotate the reading by placing the word FACT by what you believe to be a FACT
and then use the word INFERENCE to identify inferences.

Document # X

Title: ________________________________________________________________

For clothes they wear animal skins. In winter they wear skins with the fur and hair left on, but
in summer they wear leather. More important people wear cloaks made of deer skins that
look like cloaks the Irish wear

Each family has its own land and gardens. They do their own work. Their houses are
surrounded by their own fields and gardens. This farmland can be a small plot or large
fields. Sometimes these houses are grouped together, separated only by groves of trees.
Near their homes are piles of wood for burning in their home fires

Men fish, hunt, and got to war. Women often work while the men are idle. Women and
children do all the other work. They make mats, baskets, pots, and grinding tools, grind corn
into flour, bake bread, and do all the cooking. They also do the farming, planting, raising,
and gathering of corn. Women do the hauling and all the other heavy work

Although these people are barbarous (uncivilized), they have a form of government which is
superior to the governments of many places in the world which are considered civilized.
They have leaders who are wise and people who are willing to follow laws. They are ruled by
a King.
Gathering, Interpreting, & Contextualizing Information

DOCUMENT #1

Title: _____________________________________________________

Indian men did much of their fishing from dugout canoes that were made from bald cypress trees.
The largest dugouts were four feet deep, fifty feet long and capable of holding up to forty men!

Seafood products that were harvested by Indians that lived near oceans or a salt water area
included fish, crabs, and turtles. Indians of these regions caught fish by spearing them in the
shallow waters. Indian men caught fish at night by lighting a fire in the middle of their dugout
canoes. The fish were attracted to the light and would be netted or speared by the Indians.

Clever traps called weirs (wears) were used to catch fish. Weirs were made of sticks that formed a
long wall in the water. When the fish tried to swim around the wall, they were led into a funnel that
emptied into a large box, from which they could not escape. Fish nets were made from deer
tendons, tree bark and a type of grass called pemmenaw (pem-in-aww).

QUESTIONS. Answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES when needed.

1. Based on the reading, what is the main idea of the document? Circle your answer.
A. Fishing trip by Indians

B. How Indians catch fish

C. Types of food eaten by Indians

D. What life is like by the ocean

2. W
hat were two methods used to catch fish?

3. W
here did this type of fishing take place?

4. D
escribe what a weirs is.

5. CONTEXTUALIZE. Create a title for this passage based on the content and write it in the space
provided above. DO NOT USE THE ANSWER FROM #1 as your title.
Gathering, Interpreting, & Contextualizing Information

DOCUMENT #2

Title:_______________________________________________________

Indian women made the nets. Indian women did most of the cooking. They kept the fire hot by
poking the coals and fanning the fire with fans made from wild turkey wings. Native people ate from
a community pot that was placed on a fire pit that was outside of their home.

There were no standard meal times and people ate whenever they were hungry.
Cooking pots were made by the women from clay that was dug from a creek bank. Crushed oyster
shells were added to the clay to give it strength. Pots were made with a cone shaped pointed
bottom and left to dry for one or two days.

They were then placed in a fire and covered with wood and sticks. This process made the pots very
durable. Corn, beans, squash, wild greens, meat and fish were cooked in pots. The pots were
replenished throughout the day so there was always something to eat.

QUESTIONS. Answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES when needed.

1. Typically, Americans eat three standard meals. How did the Natives differ when it came time to
eat?

2. W
hat was used to give the cooking pots strength?

3. W
hat process made the pots durable?

4. T
here were two main ways the women kept the fires going. What were they?

5. CONTEXTUALIZE. Create a title for this passage based on the content and write it in the space
provided above.
Gathering, Interpreting, & Contextualizing Information

DOCUMENT #3

Title: __________________________________________________________

Indian towns often had a central fire pit that was used for ceremonies and as a
gathering place. Homes were built by the women and children of the tribe. Most houses were 50
(feet) or 60 (feet) long and had one large room. Usually 6 to 20 people lived inside a single home.

Indian homes were made from small, green trees called saplings. The saplings were bent over and
tied together to form a framework, which was covered with bark or mats woven from straw and
grass.

Houses had high rounded ceilings. This allowed room for storing food and other items over peoples
heads. Tribes fortified their village by digging a circular ditch around it, into which they drove round
pilings close together to make a wall. These defensive walls were called palisades.

QUESTIONS. Answer the following in COMPLETE SENTENCES when needed.

1. Why was the central fire pit so important to Indian towns?


A. Used for cooking and gathering C. Helped scare animals away
B. Was used for ceremonies & gathering D. Allowed 6 to 20 people to live

2. Read the following passage and then answer the question:


Houses had high rounded ceilings. This allowed room for storing food and other
items over peoples heads.

Based on this passage, what do we know about the high rounded ceilings?
A. It allowed the Natives room to store furniture C. Natives could fit more people in house
B. Natives could more store food & items D. Made the home strong & sturdy

3. W
hat was a palisade and why were they important?

4. Read the following passage: The saplings were bent over and tied together to form a
framework
What inference can you make about the saplings based on the evidence above?

5. CONTEXTUALIZE. Create a title for this passage based on the content and write it in the
space provided above.

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