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Explore the breathtaking beauty of the Antarctic through the eyes of Jennifer Owings Dewey in her captivating journal. Witness the alert wildlife, standards of the polar bears, huddling goslings, graceful spider webs, and more.
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Vocabulary PowerPoint Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World By: Jennifer Owings Dewey
display The natural world is full of glorious scenes, such as the display of wildlife.
alert These animals are alert. They are wide awake and ready to take action.
standards By these polar bears’ standards, or ways of measuring, cold air might be comfortable.
vision Artists can have a vision, or mental image, of how to paint a scene from nature.
Huddle Baby goslings often huddle, or crowd, together to stay warm while they nap.
Weariness This bird can fly many miles. It may get tired, but it isn’t stopped by its weariness.
Fractured In Antarctic, chunks of fractured, or broken, ice float through the icy sea.
Graceful The delicate design of a spider’s web is graceful and pleasing to see.
Stranded This fawn may seem stranded, or left helpless. Its mother is nearby, though.
Concluded Many people have concluded, or decided, that nature is full of beauty.