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The Boy Who Drew Birds Questions

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Read in Wonders textbook pages 144-155 or listen to the story in McGraw Hill App
Read in Wonders textbook pages 144-155 or listen to the story in McGraw Hill App
Question 1
1.

In the story, what kind of birds did John James Audubon study?

Question 2
2.

Why did John James tie bands around the birds?

Question 3
3.

What text evidence shows how John James's ideas differed from that of scientists?

Question 4
4.

What did John James's experiment help to prove?

Question 5
5.

According to page 148-149, which one of these is true?

Question 6
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Question 7
7.

Put the events in order.

  1. John studied the birds and learned their behavior.
  2. He decided to write his father and find a way to tell the world.
  3. In the fall, he formed a plan to band the birds by tying silver thread to their legs. The birds were gone a week later.
  4. After winter, John James found two birds with the silver string.
Question 8
8.

Match the vocabulary words to the definitions.

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Which of the following are reasons that his father sent John James to America. Choose 4
to learn English
to teach French to the people of Pennsylvania
to learn how to make money in America
to become an artist
to learn commerce
so John James would not have to fight in Napoleon's war.
disappearance (p. 145)
The act or fact of vanishing or going out of sight.
transformed (p. 149)
a sudden movement of many things at once.
behaviors (p. 150)
full of strength, eagerness or energy
energetic (p. 148)
to move from one place to another
migrate (p. 149)
changed in shape, form or appearance
flurry (p. 146)
ways of behaving or acting