Pax by sara penny packer
vocabulary practice: define the following words based on their context of the story.
1) thread
2) sharp
3) slivered
4) urgent
5) curious
6) crawl
7) climbed
8) bounded
9) locked
10) wrench
11) litter
12) still
13) torn
14) heedless

The rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago.which choice combines these two sentences from paragraph two to achieve a coherent flow of ideas? a) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden" and permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. b) permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago and the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." c) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden; " and so the permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. d) because of the rich natural resources which made the sacramento valley a ‘garden of eden,’ native americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.