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DOL level 4 week 28. Analogy Nile : Africa – Amazon : ___________ 2. general : admiral – army:_________ 1. our horse has ate a lot of oats and has growed 2. he do like to play with butch, my dog. South America. navy. Pledge. Fluency. 6 min. reading solution. Objectives day 1.
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DOL level 4 week 28 • Analogy • Nile : Africa – Amazon : ___________ 2. general : admiral – army:_________ 1. our horse has ate a lot of oats and has growed 2. he do like to play with butch, my dog South America navy
Fluency 6 min. reading solution
Objectives day 1 Students will recognize homophones. Study Greek roots in words
Word Structure day 1 Line 1 ma lima bile mobile moped produce duce li mo mope pro cor record re refuse fuse re sewer sew wound Line 2 er u rupt dis manual al man Line 3 rup erupt e disrupt manicure ĭ man cure remove move re mo Line 4 ect re fl ble flex mobile bile reflect flexible ĭ
Word Structure day 1 • The words in this line are homographs. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have a different pronunciation and a different meaning. • Lima – a city in Peru a bushy tall growing tropical American bean. Mobile – a city in Alabama, capable of moving or being moved, or a construction or sculpture Moped – a lightweight, low-powered motorbike. to become listless or dejected Produce – to compose or to create agricultural products, especially fresh fruits and vegetables.. Line 1 ma lima bile mobile moped produce duce li mo mope pro
Building Background • What do you know about tall tales and how characters act when they are faced with problems and unusual situations? • How do you think the railroad could run through mountains? • How would people cut tunnels out of mountains?
Background Information • After the Civil War, a great number of freed slaves were hired to help rebuild the South – usually for low wages and under miserable conditions. • It is believed that John Henry was hired as a steel driver to extend the C & O Railroad from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River • When the railroad’s progress was halted by Big Bend Mountain, which was more than a mile deep, the workers were told to drill through it. As they painstakingly chipped away at it, the tunnel filled with poisonous black smoke and dust. It took one thousand men three years to finish it. Hundreds of men died while working there. • A steel driver drove holes into rocks by hitting steel drills into rock with a heavy hammer. As mentioned in the story, a steel driver worked with a shaker, who would crouch by the hole made by the drill and rotate the drill.
bulged strain His huge muscles bulged when he flexed his arms. Be careful not to strain your muscles. Vocabulary lesson 2 To hurt yourself by doing too much past tense of bulge: to swell generous muscular We need to be more generous and kind to one another. Working hard physically can help you become muscular. having well developed muscles kind and unselfish
legend versions The sword in the stone is a legend about Camelot. There are many different versions of Cinderella. Vocabulary lesson 2 a story passed down through the years that is not necessarily true a variation of a story
Purpose Big Idea How did machines get America moving?
Handing Off • Have you grasped the following ideas: • Who John Henry is • Who wins the race • How hey story ends • What type of story it is
Science Inquiry pg 492 Genre Biography • Is a story about a real person’s life that is written by someone else. • Contains important information about the person’s life. The stories can include details about how the person talks, feels, and thinks. • May span the person’s life, or it may tell about only an important part of the person’s life. An account that spans the person’s life is usually told in chronological order, or in the order in which the events occurred in time. • Often focuses on the most important events in a person’s life. It usually describes a person’s achievements or talents. FeatureTime Lines Think Link 1. Based on the time line, how old was Henry Bessemer when he made his first invention?
WritingPrewriting day 1 • A tall tale is an entertaining story with made-up or exaggerated characters. It uses humor and exaggeration to tell a story that the author often claims is true. The main character is a larger-than-life hero or heroine, sometimes with superhuman abilities, who needs to solve a problem. The plot is funny and impossible and includes a lot of action,.
WritingPrewriting day 1 • Brainstorm ideas about possible characters for a tall tale. • Will there be a character with great physical strength, like John Henry? • Brainstorm possible plots that involve humans against a machine, such as someone trying to outrun a train or swim faster than a ship. • Write your ideas in your Writer’s Notebook.
Objectives day 1 Students will Learn about sentence tenses. Learn how to correct run-on sentences and sentence fragments. Learn about complex sentences. Learn how to ask questions to find information. Learn how to use an effective voice.
Grammar, Usage, and MechanicsPrepositions and Prepositional Phrases Day 1 Captain Tommy made an offer to John Henry that he couldn’t refuse. What is the prepositional phrase: To John Henry Look at the first page of “John Henry Races the Steam Drill..” Identify the prepositions, objects of prepositions and prepositional phrases.
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SpellingLatin Roots day 2 Sort the words by Latin Roots strain legere vers man rupt prim strain adverse restrain constraint rupture manual legend manage interrupt primate erupt legible prime abrupt lecture sequence disrupt versions sequel manicure versus secondary
