Discuss the following vocabulary strategies you can apply to you understand an unfamiliar word: context clues etymology

Context clues is the strategy of using the surrounding text to figure out the meaning of a word. Example: Susan felt meloncholy, she cried all day. Even if you don't know the meaning of the word 'meloncholy', you know that she's sad if she cried all day.

Etymology is understanding of the history or orgin of a word. Example if you know that a word originated from (England, Greece) it can help determine the meaning.

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.