Worlds Fair 2.0: Visitors

Instruction

It fascinates most people to know all of the "important" or popular people - celebrities, politician, performers, activists, etc. - who visited or worked at the 1904 World's Fair. Check out some of them at this website (five pages:

Famous Fairgoers and Performers

Use the writings on those pages to make some inferences and discover new words below.

After you finish this, imagine who might want to visit World's Fair 2.0. Choose a famous or infamous person living today, and create a paragraph to describe their visit or involvement with our new venture.

Learning Intentions

[Reading] Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
[Reading] Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text

Success Criteria

Click through the webpages provided, reading about the characters involved in the event
Using the information given, provide evidence from the text for each conclusion
Find the unknown words provided
Use context clues to define each unknown word as closely as possible

Before You Advance

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Always refer to the Learning Intentions and
Success Criteria for help along the way!

Making Inferences

Will Rogers was a funny man. What evidence tells you this? *

How do you know Thomas Edison was creative? *

Why is Max Factor called the father of modern makeup? *

Why might Cromwell Dixon be considered a daredevil? *

Why is Guglielmo Marconi called the father of radio? *

How do you know Amelia Earhart was headstrong? *

Why might Annie Turnbo Malone be considered a role model? *

Unknown Words

What does an ADVOCATE do? (Look at Helen Keller) *

What does STIMULATED mean? (See Walt Disney) *

What is an ADVERSARY? (Look at Lewis Muir) *

What does AVIATION mean? (See Cromwell Dixon) *

What does a COWGIRL do? (Look at Lucille Mulhall) *

Define TRANSFORMED. (See Amelia Earhart) *

What are FISTICUFFS? (See Lewis Muir) *

What does a NOVELIST do? (See Thomas Clayton Wolfe) *

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