Question

1. How does life today differ from the life of a pioneer child?

2. What can you infer about life as a pioneer child? Use evidence to support your inference.

3. Use context clues to infer the meaning of the word “minimal.”

4. Why do you think pioneer children were expected to be “miniature adults”? Use evidence from the paragraph to support your answer.

Answer 1

1 For the pioneer child life on the frontier was hard and lonely. Families were isolated and most children had no opportunity to make friends or play with people their own age. and today we play with whoever

2 Life on the trail was not easy. Many faced family deaths to sicknesses such as cholera, measles, and smallpox. Starvation, harsh weather conditions, and travel accidents were common and took their toll, no matter which trail pioneers chose to travel or how carefully they prepared

3 of a minimum amount, quantity, or degree; negligible.