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WRITING PRACTICE:  Early America

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1. List some of the effects the world would experience if we were to enter another Ice Age.
    
    
    
    
2. Summarize the passage in five sentences or less.
    
    
    
    
3. Discuss one possible cause for the emergence of what is now The Bering Sea. 
    
    
    
    
4. What possible proof could we have to support the belief that humans first came to North America across Beringia?
    
    
    
    
5. Write a few sentences describing different aspects of primitive human life as you imagine it was.
   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

After the Passage into North America

B- Find the errors in each paragraph below and rewrite each one correctly.

(B1) People have found some strange structures that they couldn't explain they turned out to be mounds, or small hills, built by early Indians from centuries ago. No one knows exactly why mounds was built. The Adenans were the first Indians to build mounds in the United States most of these earth mounds were burial sites and fortifications around 600 B.C. Some mounds from that era will be in the shape of birds or serpents, and they probably served religious purposes that we don't completely understand.

(B2) The Adenans were probably taken over by various groups known as Hopewellians one of the most important centers of their culture was found in southern Ohio where parts of several thousand of these mounds still remain.  the Hopewellians used and exchanged tools and materials. Across a wide region of hundreds of kilometers. There were supposedly great traders.

(B3) By around 500 A.D., the Hopewellians, too, have disappeared, they gave way to a group of tribes making up the Mississippians or Temple Mound culture. One city, Cahokia, just east of St. Louis, Missouri, probably reached a population of about 20,000 in the early, 12th century. A huge earthen mound, flatted at the top, stood at the center of the city it was 30 meters high and 37 hectares at the base. Eighty other mounds have been found nearby.

Click here AFTER you complete the exercise to see the corrected passages. Think about why the corrections were necessary.

C- Find a few similarities in the sentences below. For example:

Do they start in the same way?
Do they have similar punctuation?
Are all of the sentences written in the past?

1. By 3,000 B.C., a primitive type of corn was being grown.
2. By the first centuries A.D., the Hohokum people occupied a wide area of south-central Arizona.
3. By 300 B.C., we can find signs of early village life .
4. During that time, huge continental ice sheets held much of the world's water.
5. Over time, more and more species of large game died out.

Examine the sentences carefully before you read some possible answers below.

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To practice this kind of sentence more, open your Writing MentorfVicky. Then return to this page and find similar sentences in the paragraphs in Exercise B, above.

D- Get together with a friend or friends and decide what all of the sentences have in common (alike).

1. The Ice Age was a period which reached its peak between 34,000 and 30,000 B.C.
2.  It had  grasses and plant life that attracted large animals, such as the mammoth.
3. These hunters were the first people to cross into the new continent, which is now known as North America.

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To practice this kind of sentence more, open your Writing Mentor. Then return to this page and find similar sentences in the paragraphs in Exercise B, above.