Unit 4 – Money Lesson 5 Four Dollars and Fifty Cents Day 1

What We Will Learn Compound words are made up of two words that help us understand the meaning The suffix –ed indicates an action has taken place in the past, there can be spelling changes to the base word Spelling changes with suffixes -s and –es plurals

Compound Words What two words make up these compound words? blacksmith graveyard fireworks tombstone buckboard

Suffix –ed The suffix –ed tells us the action has already taken place. What are the spelling changes to the base word? clenched lugged growled owed leaned clench lug growl owe lean

Base word spelling changes with suffixes What are the spelling changes to the base word? bury – to put something in the ground burying – the action is happening now buried – the action has already happened burial – the event of burying something

Plurals Most words are made plural by only adding “s”. Words ending in sh, ch, s, x, and o are made plural by adding –es. dollars horses sleeves cowboys britches

Genre – Tall Tale A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of the adventures of a fictional character, such as Paul Bunyan. Tall tales build upon improbable incidents and unusual problems that are solved in creative ways.

Meet the Author Eric A.Kimmel

Mr. Kimmel never wanted to be anything else but a writer. He was inspired by his grandmother, a natural storyteller who filled his childhood with countless stories peopled by real and fictional characters from European history and folktales.

Meet the Illustrator Before becoming a full-time author and illustrator, Glen Rounds worked as a mule-skinner, cowboy, sign painter, railroad hand, and carnival medicine man. He has written and illustrated nearly 50 books, and has artwork in more than 60 publications.

Prior Knowledge Thank about a time you borrowed money from someone. How did you feel about it? Did you pay back the money? Have you ever loaned money to anyone? What was that like? Did the person pay you back?

Prior Knowledge In “Alexander…” Alexander has a problem with money. Alexander gets what he wants, but does not choose wisely and later regrets his choices. In “Four…” Shorty Long gets what he wants but refuses to pay for it. How are these two similar?

Background Knowledge We can buy things without paying for them immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay at a later time. This is called buying on credit. Today, people often use credit cards to buy things they want.

Setting This story takes place in the Old West. When we refer to the Old West, we often mean the art of the united States west of the Mississippi River, during the years

Old West Vocabulary skillet – frying pan rein in – to stop your horse mosey – to walk slowly greenbacks – paper money rolling pin – used to roll out dough

Old West Vocabulary buckboard – an open horse-drawn carriage; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles.

Vocabulary blacksmith – a person who makes objects from iron, which is heated and then hammered to the desired shape

Vocabulary collecting – getting payment for a debt

Vocabulary decent – proper; respectable; acceptable to the community

Vocabulary volunteered – offered to do

Vocabulary determined – firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly continuing as planned

Monitoring and Clarifying This can be clarifying the meaning of words or clarifying difficult ideas or passages. Word meanings can be clarified by using context clues, structural analysis (word parts), apposition, charts or graphic organizers, resources outside of the text, or reread the text.

Making Connections In order to make connections you have to use prior knowledge and connect what you know or have experienced to what you are reading.

Predicting Predicting causes you to think about the information given about story events and characters and how this may logically connect to the story’s conclusion.

Summarizing Summarizing helps you keep track of what you are reading and to focus your mind on important information.

Focus Questions What does it mean to be in debt? Why is it so important to pay back debts?

Choral Read Page 58 Monitoring and Clarifying Are there any words you don’t know the meaning of? deadbeat – “He owed everybody money,…” and ”He just hates to pay for anything he thinks he can get free,…” ↓

Monitoring and Clarifying The author is using the words that the characters would have used during that time. ain’t gonna flatter’n means flatter than

Choral Read Pages 59 and 60 Monitoring and Clarifying Are there any words or ideas you don’t understand? hitched – connected the horse to the buckboard corral – a pen for cattle bronco – an unbroken mustang horse ↓

Monitoring and Clarifying suspicions – doubts sagebrush – bushes ↓

Monitoring and Clarifying “He’s gone to the last roundup,” – he has died →

Choral Read Pages 60 and 61 Making Connections – “Shorty saw stars when the coffin hit the ground,…” Have you ever seen a cartoon when the character hits himself and a circle of stars moves around his head? That means he was hit so hard he was dazed.→

Choral Read Pages 62 and 63 What do you think is going to happen to Shorty? Do you think the riders will get him? Do you think they’ll find out he isn’t dead? What are your predictions?→

Choral Read Pages 64 and 65 Monitoring and Clarifying Are there any words or ideas on these pages that you don’t understand? lugged and strongbox are in your glossary corpse – a dead body↓

Monitoring and Clarifying “Shorty nearly gave up the ghost. He thought that bullet was meant for him.” What do you think this means? It means he almost died of fright.↓

Predicting Have any of your predictions been confirm? Do you have any new predictions? →

Choral Read Pages 66 and 67 Monitoring and Clarifying Are there any words or ideas on these pages that you don’t understand? What does “divvy it up business-like” mean? If we read further do you think we can figure this out?↓

Monitoring and Clarifying What do you think “willies, clenched and bowie knife” mean? Let’s look them up in your glossary. →

Choral Read Pages 68 and 69 Confirming Predictions Were your predictions confirmed? Summarizing – remember to summarize only the main parts of the story. Who can summarize the story? ↓

Summary Shorty is a cowboy who didn’t want to pay the Widow Macrae the four dollars and fifty cents that he owed her. Instead, Shorty made believe that he was dead. While he was at boot hill an outlaw was going to cut off his nose so he could nail ↓

Summary the lid on his coffin. Shorty sat up and yelled and scared the whole gang a way. Shorty and the Widow Macrae returned the stolen money to the railroad agent. They got a five hundred reward to divide between them.

Focus Questions Tomorrow during workshop you will talk about the focus question: Why is it so important to pay back debts? After your discussion you will write your answer in your writing/reading journal.