DOL level 4 week 18 Analogy station : train - wharf : ________ : - : : - : 1. doug and maria was fishing and bruce and me was shopping 2. did you knows that their going to spend a week in fort dodge ship

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Objectives day 1 Students will Recognize superlatives Review Greek roots Review antonyms Skills Practice 1, pp. 163-164

Word Structure day 1 Gloomiest heaviest worst fanciest fastest least swiftest earliest biography autograph geography photograph disagreeable delightful perilous safe Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4

Word Structure day 2 The words on this line are superlative adverbs. fastest least swiftest earliest Line 2 The words on this line are superlative adverbs. Which three words end the same way? fastest, swiftest, earliest Regular superlative adverbs are formed by adding –est to the original adverb. Which of these is an irregular form of a superlative adverb? least Name the original adverb on which this superlative form is based. little

Objectives day 1 Students will Learn vocabulary words Apply the comprehension strategies Clarifying, Visualizing, Predicting, and Summarizing. apply the comprehension skills Author’s Point of View and Fact and Opinion practice reading with fluency. Skills Practice 1 pp. 16-168

Building Background Activate Prior Knowledge What do you already know about the topic of this selection? What did pioneers experience as they traveled westward in a wagon train? Have you ever kept a diary? did you keep it for a long time? Do you still keep it?

Building Background Usually a diary is not written to be shared with anyone. Sallie Hester kept a diary that gives us valuable information about a trip west that thousands of other pioneers also took. Between 1840 – 1866, more than 350,000 people moved to the West in search of farmland and gold. The Hesters’ wagon train traveled 2,000 miles along Oregon-California Trail. Sallie Hester was fourteen years old when her long journey began.

Vocabulary lesson 4 vast associations tremendous provisions He viewed a vast landscape. He was a member of three associations. Organization of similar interests Large, widespread tremendous provisions The wrestler had tremendous arms. He prepared a lot of provisions to take to camp. Plural provision; food or necessary items Very large

Vocabulary lesson 4 engaged detained permanent He was so engaged in talking, he missed his bus. The police detained the prisoner. Form of detain, to keep back Busy with permanent The injury will leave a permanent scar. Lasting, not temporary.

Word Structure day 1 left bark pen well Line 1 The words in this line are homonyms; that is each word has more than one meaning. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings. The dog will bark when the doorbell rings. verb The tree bark is very brittle. noun

K W L I know a diary is a personal record of events. Lots of people died on their journey. Guards would sleep in tents. People would sleep in their wagons. What is a steamboat? Does she make it all the way. I wonder if one of her family members die. What’s cholera? How many people died in total? Do the oxen die. How long does it take them? How many miles did they travel? Cholera is a bacteria found in water.

Handing Off Discuss: Why Sallie’s family leaves their home in Indiana in 1849 The types of hardships endured by Sallie and her family as they travel westward. How long it takes Sallie’s family to reach fremont, California.

Big Idea Purpose How has America changed over time? What have you learned about a changing America in your reading of “A Covered Wagon Girl: The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850.”

Fluency 6 min. reading solution

Meet the Author Sallie Hester pg 316 Meet the Editors Christy Steele Ann Hodgson

Supporting the Reading day 2 Visualize the setting, characters, and the action in the text. Chair of Events in _____

Inquiry Process Day 2 Getting information from the broadest spectrum of sources available will add depth to the inquiry investigation. Remember that classmates can be excellent resources, because they might have found something that is of interest.

Guided Practice Transparency 21 Get article from magazine or newspaper Apply Composing – Planning Choose an article or topic to write about in a letter to an editor. Write your ideas on your computer.

Writing a Letter to the Editor Day 2 - Drafting Skills Practice 1 page 169 Review your prewriting plans before drafting. You can organize your drafts in different ways. Present your opinion about an issue and then give facts, reasons, and examples that support that opinion. Present the problem first, explain why it is a problem, and then offer a solution.

Spelling Day 2 Sort the words according to how the suffix –est is added to the base word.

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Comparative Adjectives day 2 Skills Practice 1 page 162 The trip across the meadow was better than the trip across the desert. Better is an irregular comparative adjective that compares two or more things. Better is the comparative form of good. Some adjectives, such as good, bad, and many, have different comparative forms. Base form Comparatives Good, well, better bad, worse Many, much more Little (amount) less

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