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Adolescent Literacy: Social Studies Comprehension Strategies: The ability to read and comprehend information is crucial to understanding society around us, as well as making decisions and defending one’s views and opinions. Help your students develop the reading skills that will help them achieve higher in social studies--and in life.; Take this course: Begins April 6.

American toad call: The call of the American toad is a sustained, high musical trill.; Format: audio

Fowler's toad call: The call of Fowler's toad sounds like a prolonged, nasal scream.; Format: audio

Peoples of the mountains: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.5; During the Mississippian period, corn agriculture became more important in the mountains of North Carolina. More productive agriculture supported larger populations and provided opportunities for accumulating wealth. This brought about increased social ranking and political centralization. The Mountain region was creating its own identity -- an identity that archaeologists tie to the modern-day Cherokee. Archaeologists have given the names Pisgah and Qualla to these Cherokee ancestors.; Format: article

The village farmers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5; North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.