Unplugged and Under the Stars
Friday, October 12th â 9:45 PM
I am currently sitting in the glow of a battery-powered lantern, inside a tent that smells faintly of mildew and old pine needles. If you told me a week ago that Iâd be spending my weekend in the middle of the Blackwood Wilderness without a single bar of LTE, I would have assumed I was being punished. Dad calls this âquality bonding time,â but right now, it feels more like a survival challenge. The drive up here was three hours of Dadâs âClassic Rockâ playlist and my attempts to download as many podcasts as possible before the signal vanished into the ether.
- Percolator:
- A type of pot used to brew coffee by continually cycling boiling water through the grounds.
- Therapeutic:
- Having a relaxing or healing effect on the mind or body.
- Convection:
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- Vintage:
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- Ether:
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- primitive:
- Extremely simple, basic, and lacking modern comforts or advanced technology.
- efficient:
- Working in a well-organized and capable manner without wasting time or effort.
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- 1Why did the narrator initially feel like the camping trip was a punishment?
- 2Describe the difficulty the characters faced while setting up the tent.
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âUnplugged and Under the Starsâ is a diary entry reading passage about Family Bonding, written for Middle School. It takes about 7 minutes to read (1,014 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.