| A | B |
| Futhark | runic alphabet |
| dialect | regional differences in speech |
| 1012 A.D. | earliest dated runestone in OK. |
| nithing | Viking criminal declared legally dead. |
| Underground Railroad | network to help slaves escape |
| Lincoln | first president assassinated |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | important antislavery book |
| Gloria Farley | identified Indian Rock as a runestone |
| stereotype | widely held idea |
| Emancipation Proclamation | freed only slaves in the Confederacy |
| liberty or death | Harriet Tubman's choices |
| ZPD | ideal reading level |
| Vikings or Swedish captain | possible carvers of runes in OK |
| Song about freedom | Harriet Tubman's message to her family |
| Home of the Lost Cave with the Iron Door | Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge |
| self esteem | how you feel about yourself-the boy's problem in "The Jacket" |
| seizures | made Harriet Tubman's escape dangerous |
| Tubman's husband | threatened to betry her |
| Viking roomates | livestock |
| no girlfriend | The boy's complaint he blamed on the jacket |