Ten Mile Day Day 2

What challenges do immigrants encounter? Concept talk What challenges do immigrants encounter?

Partner Share Why might people wait anxiously during the process of immigration? What are some of the things that happen on Ellis Island? What do you think immigrants pack with their belongings? What would you take with you to a new country?

Amazing Words Emblem- a visual representation of an idea, place or person The Statue of Liberty an emblem of the freedom found in America allegiance- means loyalty or faithfulness We recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before school starts. Teach your partner what this amazing word means.

Fluency With your partner read the story “Coming to the United States.” Don’t stop until I tell you to. Read aloud either together or one at a time. Make sure to use good pacing and correct voice inflection

A New Place to Live As you read the story “A New Place to Live” on page 145 think about the allegiances the workers feel to their employer, family, or country and the emblems that add to those feelings of allegiance.

Word Analysis We can add the suffix –ing to a verb It signals that an action is happening and continuing to happen I am laughing at the funny dog. Words with suffix –ing can also be used as adjectives She looked at me with laughing eyes.

Literary Terms We are going to need our books now. 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-26

Literary Terms Sensory Details These are words that help a reader experience the way things: Look Feel Smell Taste sound

Literary Terms Let’s look back to yesterday’s read aloud “Journey to Ellis Island”. Listen for sensory details as I read this sentence : The hall was hot and stuffy, and it echoed with noise-babies crying, people talking anxiously to each other in many different languages, and officials calling out names.

Literary Terms What sensory details did you notice? Let’s read paragraph 2 on page 149. Let’s read it together. Who can find sensory details? How did they help you imagine the scene?

Vocabulary Multiple Meaning Words Words that have the same spelling but different meanings Using context clues-the words and sentences around the word You can clarify which meaning is being used

Let’s look at page W-10 The first sound was the prying open of the bulldozer door. The word prying can mean moving or forcing open Let’s reread the sentence, the word prying means moving or forcing open I can substitute the word forcing in the sentence and see that it works. So, now I can see that prying means forcing.

Transcontinental Railroad What was the transcontinental railroad? Why was it built? How did the immigrants help build it? What challenges do you think they faced? Word Splash—I am going to give you 1 minute to write all the words you can think of that relate to the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental Railroad Share with your partner all the words you wrote and look at the words they wrote about the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental Railroad The transcontinental railroad was the first railroad to go across the United States from the east coast to the west coast. It was built so people could travel all the way across the United States. Many of the workers who built the tracks for the railroad were Chinese and Irish immigrants.

Transcontinental Railroad The faced mistreatment and discrimination. They all had to put in long days of hard labor. Imagine what it must have been like to blast through a mountain to build the tracks.

These are the trains that met at Promontory Point.

Some mistakes were made and the tracks didn’t line up.

The map shows the route each railroad company took across the United States.

This sign is in the museum marking this amazing day.

The day the two rail companies met at Promontory Point.

The golden spike.

Nailing in the golden spike.

Chinese workers

Immigrant railroad workers

Text Features Maps: Maps can help us get an overview of the subject. A map shows where something is or where something happened. There are many different types of maps: Road maps Historical maps

Text Features The map on page 147 is a historical map I can see where the railroad tracks were laid and where the ten-mile day began and ended. I can find the mountains and Promontory Summit This map helps me really see this story.

Vocabulary Barren- unable to produce fruit The farmer’s trees were barren and looked empty in the field. Deafening- very loud The jet roared over the house with a deafening roar. TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Vocabulary Lurched- rolled suddenly The car lurched forward in the garage. Previous- occurs before in time She enjoyed the previous show better. TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Vocabulary Prying- to look at closely The girl looked into the closet with prying eyes. Surveying- looking carefully at He was surveying the hill for his cat. TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Ten Mile Day The story “Ten Mile Day” is an expository text. Expository text tells about real people and events. Let’s preview the title, photographs and map in the story to help get an overview of the story. I want to you to think about challenges that the immigrants might encounter.

Ten Mile Day Lets start reading the story

Ten Mile Day Reread the the last two paragraphs on page 148. What are the effects of Crocker’s belief? The effect is that the President of the Union Pacific offered $10,000 to the team that could lay ten miles of track in one day.

Ten Mile Day Let’s keep reading… Read paragraph 2 on page 149. What are the effects of Crocker’s arm rising and falling. The hogger made the whistle blow and the race began.

Ten Mile Day Looking at the picture on page 150, do you think the rails are heavy? Why What was laid first? The wooden boards or the metal rails?

It took 3 workers to move it into place.

Ten Mile Day Which man is the boss? Why is he in the back yelling? From the picture do you think these men are working in unison?

Ten Mile Day Ok, now let’s read on to page 153 What does the word mammoth mean ? I can reread the part of the sentence where I see the word mammoth. I think about the different meanins fo the word mammoth.

Ten Mile Day I know it can mean both “huge” and and extinct mammal. I restate the sentence using both meanings . “Like a large extinct mammal machine with hundreds…” “Like a huge machine with hundreds of well oiled parts” YES!

Nouns Please tell me what kind of noun each example is: proper, common or collective: Book Common! Team Collective! Aunt Tess Proper!

Spelling Contractions This week we will use words that are a shortened form of two words. They contain apostrophes that show where letters have been left out.

Spelling Please make a contraction from these words Must not Mustn’t Could have Could’ve

Spelling Will not Won’t There would There’d You are You’re

Lets take a look at our Daily Fix it

Writing This week you will write an expository composition. An expository composition is a nonfiction writing that informs readers about a topic.

Writing An expository composition tells about: Real people Real events Gives readers a description about something Gives readers an explanation about something

Writing Expository compositions contain: An introduction with a topic sentence Body with main idea and supporting details conclusion

Writing Many people thought that building the transcontinental railroad was impossible. Think of another American achievement that seemed impossible. Now write an expository composition about it.