Black History Month Vocabulary

Which of the following best defines the word "illiterate"?

• Having little to no education, especially unable to read or write.

• to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting

• Wild animals that may carry disease

• The ability to do something

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Which of the following best defines the word "vermin"?

• Having little to no education, especially unable to read or write.

• to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting

• Wild animals that may carry disease

• The ability to do something

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which of the following best defines the word "boycott"?

• Having little to no education, especially unable to read or write.

• to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting

• Wild animals that may carry disease

• The ability to do something

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which of the following best defines the word "capacity" as used in the sentence, "She had an endless capacity to love her children."?

• Having little to no education, especially unable to read or write.

• to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting

• Wild animals that may carry disease

• The ability to do something

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Which word is defined as "A person who wants to stop slavery"?

• nonviolent

• prejudice

• illiterate

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which word is defined as "Hatred or poor treatment of another without any reason except for they are different from oneself"?

• nonviolent

• prejudice

• illiterate

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which word is defined as "Not using or involving physical force to cause damage or harm"?

• nonviolent

• prejudice

• illiterate

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Which word is defined as "Having little to no education, especially unable to read or write"?

• nonviolent

• prejudice

• illiterate

• abolitionist

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which word best completes the sentence?

One of the ways freed slaves were kept from voting was the administration of literacy test, which they could not pass because they were__________.

• boycott

• prejudice

• vermin

• illiterate

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which word best completes the sentence?

Mrs. Ward is terrified of rats and mice, or any other _________ for that matter.

• boycott

• prejudice

• vermin

• illiterate

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C