Birtanica Enclopaedia
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Date of Article: september 19 2017
Headline: west indies
Author: Colin ghram Clarke
Source of the Article: Birtanica encylopeadia https://www.britannica.com/place/West-Indies-island-group-Atlantic-Ocean
Write down three (3) vocabulary words and their definitions:
1. Plantation an estate on which coffe shugar tobacco and some otheres are cultivated
2. Pidgin A simplified language for people not sharing a comon language
3.Emigration The act of whitch one to settle in another country
Summary: (BULLET form: Who, What, When, Where, Why)
Who: The people of puerto rico aruba the bahamas the lesser antilles, the bigger antilles languages they all speak different languages. Because of this there is a language called a pidgin this is a simplified language for all of the people of the west indies to be able to comunicate. It would be really chalaging for a spanish dpeaking cuban to try and comunicate with a English speaking Jamacion. thats why this pidgin os so important. It helps trade and comunication between the islands.
What: this is the islands of the carribean or the west indies. also these are the largeish island of the coast of venasula like Aruba. these are a bunch of islands of the coast of florida to south america
When: This is happining rigtr now as we speak. there are volcanoes of the lessar antilies are blowing up right now as we speak
Where: This is happining in the atlatic ocean of the coast of Florida down to about the tip of south america. There is a long range of islands some bigger and some smaller the islands closest to florida are known as the bahamas they are small sand and coral islands. These Islands reach down to greater antilies Cuba, Jamicia Hispaniolia and Perto Rico. then there is another island group called the lesser antilies witch ranges from the tip of Puerto Rico down to south America. there a a lot of islands in this group one of them being barbados. some of these island are active volcanoes.
Why: These islands are all made of differant recources like some ore volcanoes some are low sand and coral islands and some are ritch with gold and silver. The languages very just as much as the landscapes. in fact they very so much that they
"I Wonder Questions": think of three (3) questions that you could ask about the article that were not answered in the article or were only partially answered.
1. I wonder why do all of these islands that are so close togather all speak differant languages.
2. I wonder why perto rico is u.s property but it doesent have all the same rights as the u.s
3. I wonder why some of the bahamas are so populated when all they are are low sand and coral island. there art that many recources for life down there.