Short excerpt from America’s Library article:

The Route 66 Museum Why would a museum be dedicated to a highway? Because Route 66 is no ordinary highway.

I. Vocabulary words from this article:

ordinary

dedicate

diagonal

design

zone

dust

classic

depression

grain

produce

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II. Pre-Reading Questions

What do you know about early European settlers in America?

How might colonists get lost in a new environment?

 

III. Reading Time

Click here to read the article.

The Lost Colony

from America’s Library (www.americaslibrary.gov)

When you have finished reading, return to this page and answer the questions below.

IV. Post-Reading Questions

 

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