The Unbreakable Code Guided Reading

Instructions

Today you will read The Unbreakable Code in the Wonders Textbook starting on page 430.  Please follow along in Formative as you read the text.  

Read pages 431-434.  Stop at the end of page 434 then answer questions 1-6.

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2

Who is John hiding from?  Why is he hiding?
John is hiding from _______________ because __________________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

he doesn't want to move to North Carolina.

his family

he doesn't want to move to Minnesota.

he doesn't want to move onto the reservation.

his teacher

his grandfather

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5

What does Grandfather want John to do?

Grandfather wants John to ___________________________so John can _________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

continue to speak Navajo

stay with him on the reservation.

go with his stepfather

go to school

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3

What is the unbreakable code?
The unbreakable code is _________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

the alphabet mixed up.

the Navajo language.

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5

How do Grandfather and John feel about speaking Navajo?
Grandfather thinks __________________________________________ , but John feels like __________________________  because ____________________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

John should never forget his language

no one in his new school speaks Navajo.

Navajo is the only language he should speak

Navajo can't help him

John should learn another language

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5

Why wasn't Grandfather allowed to speak Navajo at the boarding school?
He couldn't speak it because _________________________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

the school wanted everyone to speak English.

the school wanted students to learn the Navajo language.

If people enlisted, they joined the armed forces of their own free will.

En español, enlisted quiere decir “enlistado, que ha ingresado

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5

Why was Grandfather able to enlist even though he wasn't old enough?
Grandfather could enlist because __________________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

the reservation had no birth records.

they needed him and did not worry about age.

Read pages 436-437.  Read each question and complete the drag and drop to answer the question.  Answer questions 7-10. 

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5

Why were Grandfather and his platoon brought to a new camp in San Diego?
The platoon was needed to ____________________________________________  The government wanted to use the code to send ______________________that the Japanese _____________________during an invasion of _________________________   

Other Answer Choices:

use the English language to make a code.

could not decode

American messages

use the Navajo language to make a code.

the Pacific Islands.

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5

Why could the Navajo language be a secret weapon?
Navajo could be a secret weapon because _________________________________and it had never been _________________  so there was no _____________ to decode.

Other Answer Choices:

alphabet

written down

animals

few outsiders had learned it

many outsiders had learned it

spoken

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5

What were the challenges of creating the code?
The code had to be ___________ and _________ and the platoon would only have _____________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

slow

simple

one chance to send each message.

fast

three chances to send each message.

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5

What did the platoon do to create and learn the code?
The platoon used words from ___________ that were _________ to remember and they ________________________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

easy

tested each other at night.

hard

songs

nature

Read pages 440-443 then answer the questions 11-14 below.

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5

Why did the American soldier think that Grandfather was a spy?
He thought this because Grandfather was talking in  a _____________________and he had ______________  and ______________ like the ______________ 

Other Answer Choices:

dark hair

Americans.

foreign language

strange voice

dark eyes

blue eyes

Japanese.

light hair

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5

Why did Grandfather carry the wallet with him?
Grandfather carried it because it had _________________ from the __________________The medicine man told Grandfather to _____________________  

Other Answer Choices:

never be afraid.

corn pollen

stay quiet.

kitchen.

medicine man.

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5

What did the code talkers do during the invasion of Iwo Jima?
The code talkers passed over eight hundred_____________ in _____________ and they announced the _____________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

messages

two days

two weeks

victory in English.

victory in code.

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5

How does Grandfather help John overcome his fear of moving?
Grandfather gives John his ___________to remind him of the _____________________  that _______________________ 

Other Answer Choices:

hurt his country.

coin

breakable code

saved his country.

wallet

unbreakable code

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20

Put the events into the correct sequence using First, Next, Then, After that, Finally

Finally, Grandfather gives John his wallet with the corn pollen from the medicine man inside. This is the same wallet Grandfather had in World War II, and it kept him safe. John is less scared of going to a new place. His Grandfather has shown him that John will always be who he is, and he will bring this with him.
Grandfather begins to tell John about being a young boy and going to a government boarding school. They cut off his hair and forbid him from speaking the Navajo language.
Grandfather appears on horseback. He tells John that he will be okay because John has "an unbreakable code."
Then, one night, Grandfather hears the Navajo are needed in the Marines! He sneaks out of the boarding school to join.

The following questions need to be written in complete sentences.  The computer will most likely mark the answers wrong but I will go and change it to correct if you answered it correctly.  

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5

How does Grandfather show that the Navajo language is important to him?

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5

Describe how the Navajo helped in the war.

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5

The Unbreakable Code Guided Reading

Put the events into the correct sequence using First, Next, Then, After that, Finally

How does Grandfather show that the Navajo language is important to him?

Describe how the Navajo helped in the war.

At the end of the story, explain the significance of Grandfather giving John the wallet.

Put the events into the correct sequence using First, Next, Then, After that, Finally

How does Grandfather show that the Navajo language is important to him?

Describe how the Navajo helped in the war.

At the end of the story, explain the significance of Grandfather giving John the wallet.