logging in or signing up Context Clues - Wildfires cheryl_dick Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 2031 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: February 16, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript : Examples from: Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them By: Karen Magnuson Bell Scholastic Publishing Context Clues Ignite : Ignite Fire needs three things: a spark to ignite it, oxygen to keep it going, and fuel for it to burn. Ignite: set on fire Clamped, Gaffs : Clamped, Gaffs With harnesses and ropes and climbing spurs clamped on their boots, the rookies “walk” up the trees as though stepping up a ladder, sinking three-inch metal spikes called gaffs into the bark. Clamped: fastened Gaffs: metal spur Peals : Peals At 3:20 P.M. Maggie calls in smokejumpers. At the jump base, operations foreman Jim “Dirty” Linville flips a switch, and a siren blast peals out across the grounds. Peals: to sound loudly Slurry : Slurry But they wait while an air tanker finishes a series of runs dropping “mud,” a day-glow fire retardant mixed into a thick, gloppy slurry. Slurry: a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil. Duff : Duff Even the upper layer of the forest floor, the duff – grass, needles, and twigs that haven’t decomposed yet – is smoldering. They dig up cool dirt, then stir it into the duff. Duff: organic matter in various stages of decomposition on the floor of the forest. Arsonists : Arsonists And sadly, some are started deliberately by arsonists, criminals who kill and destroy with the flick of a match. Arsonists: a person who starts fires Conflagrations : Conflagrations The hotshots are third kind of crew. The country’s 1,360 hotshots take on the big fires, the conflagrations. Conflagrations: an intense fire Hoisting : Hoisting When she’s finished, she pulls a cord, hoisting the chute all the way to the ceiling. Hoisting: to raise or lift You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Context Clues - Wildfires cheryl_dick Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 2031 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: February 16, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript : Examples from: Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them By: Karen Magnuson Bell Scholastic Publishing Context Clues Ignite : Ignite Fire needs three things: a spark to ignite it, oxygen to keep it going, and fuel for it to burn. Ignite: set on fire Clamped, Gaffs : Clamped, Gaffs With harnesses and ropes and climbing spurs clamped on their boots, the rookies “walk” up the trees as though stepping up a ladder, sinking three-inch metal spikes called gaffs into the bark. Clamped: fastened Gaffs: metal spur Peals : Peals At 3:20 P.M. Maggie calls in smokejumpers. At the jump base, operations foreman Jim “Dirty” Linville flips a switch, and a siren blast peals out across the grounds. Peals: to sound loudly Slurry : Slurry But they wait while an air tanker finishes a series of runs dropping “mud,” a day-glow fire retardant mixed into a thick, gloppy slurry. Slurry: a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil. Duff : Duff Even the upper layer of the forest floor, the duff – grass, needles, and twigs that haven’t decomposed yet – is smoldering. They dig up cool dirt, then stir it into the duff. Duff: organic matter in various stages of decomposition on the floor of the forest. Arsonists : Arsonists And sadly, some are started deliberately by arsonists, criminals who kill and destroy with the flick of a match. Arsonists: a person who starts fires Conflagrations : Conflagrations The hotshots are third kind of crew. The country’s 1,360 hotshots take on the big fires, the conflagrations. Conflagrations: an intense fire Hoisting : Hoisting When she’s finished, she pulls a cord, hoisting the chute all the way to the ceiling. Hoisting: to raise or lift