Jean Carlos

Cross-Curricular Reading Comprehension Worksheets: E-3 of 36

 

Customs & Traditions
Cross-Curricular Focus: History/Social Sciences

Name:__________________________________ Answer thefollowing questions based on the reading passage. Don’t forget to go back to the passage whenever necessary to find or confirm your answers. 1) What assumptions can you make about Native American Indiantribes based on their use of ceremonies? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 2) How else could a culture who does not have a written languagecommunicate its stories besides orally telling and singing its folklore?___________________________ ______________________________________________ 3) Contrast what you have learned about NativeAmerican Indian cultures and what you know about your own culture. How are they different? ____________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________4) In your own words, explain the importance of folklore. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 5) Give an example of how one Native AmericanIndian cultural region differed from another:________________ _______________________________________________

Native American Indian groups in North America lived in different cultural regions,each of which developed its own customs and traditions. A custom is the specific way in which a group of people does something. This can include how foods are prepared, what clothing is worn, what iscelebrated (and how), and much more. The set of customs developed and shared by a culture over time is a tradition. A culture’s customs are often determined by the natural resources found in theirenvironment. In the Desert Southwest region, for example, weaving of cloth probably developed as a custom because the area has fewer large animals whose skins can be used for making clothing. In the...