Free Mesa Verde discovery card

Move from house to field,from visible form to source,and from migration to continuing relationships.

Multi-storey stone rooms and circular spaces beneath the broad rock shelter at Cliff Palace, with a wooded slope to the right. — Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado. The cover does not show the mesa-top fields beyond the alcove. National Park Service · 13 May 2008, embedded timestamp in NPGallery record · Public domain. Existing web derivative reused unchanged. Previously resized with aspect ratio retained and encoded as WebP without cropping; original retained. Image record ↗

1. Home / surroundings: Choose a room in the cover photograph. Describe two places beyond its frame that mattered to daily life. Give the field and the water source separate sentences.

2. Form / source: Describe the circular masonry space at Far View. Then distinguish what you can see from what an institutional source explains about use and missing architecture.

3. Harvest / work: Build a chain in your own words between snow, rain, soil, work and stored food. Mark which link comes from a photograph and which from a source.

4. Migration / continuity: Identify two possible pressures on people considering departure. Then read the Pueblo Cultural Center’s account and note how it changes your proposed ending.

Original free English exercise. Notes are not saved automatically; print or save as PDF before closing. This is not a translated or freely released paid PDF.

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