2 Minute Edit the average wieght of a pyramids stone blocks is two and a half tons thats the weight of two medium sized cars some block however weigh up to 15 tons thats as much as five elephants

Rate the words as you come in. Do you know how to say the word? What it means? How to put it in a sentence? + ? ? ? ?? + + +

Pyramids From Kids Discover

Team Cooperation Goal Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why

Title: Pyramids Reading Goal: Main Idea and Supporting Details Team Cooperation Goal: Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why Genre: Expository Author: From Kids Discover

concealed: hid The baby concealed himself from his mother, he hid from her under his bed.

massive : enormous Joanna reserved the massive ballroom for her wedding reception, it was enormous!

security: safety The police officer’s job was to make sure there was security during the game, he ensured safety for all the fans.

inspired : encouraged Rhea explained that she loved reading the poems about nature because they inspired her to write her own poems, she felt encouraged by other peoples’ writing.

valuable : of great worth Judy took special care of her valuable jewelry, it was of great worth.

connected : joined The railroad connected the two cities, it joined them together.

Review Vocabulary with Partner Can you say it? Can you define it? Can you say it in a sentence?

Vocabulary Vault

Let’s continue to read this book and try to listen if there are clues as to what the text structures are so far in this book.

Living in the troposphere, we feel the weather in the temperature of the air Tropo means change Weather is what's happening at the bottom of the atmosphere. Living on planet Earth there are different types of weather happening Presidents The sun not warming the Earth evenly The atmosphere lets the sunlight pass through. Sunlight heats the ground The heat warms the surface that dissipates toward the atmosphere This is called the greenhouse effect How do we know that the Earth is actually getting hotter due to the Greenhouse Effect? At the equator, it is hotter since it is closest to the sun The unequal heating of the earth sets the atmosphere in motion Exchange of the warm and cold air between the equator creates the atmospheric patterns Earth’s atmosphere is driven by the Sun’s heat Nothing in the earth is simple Earth spins rapidly from East to West The irregular spin of the Earth, differing amounts of water and air create the wind patterns. They create the jet streams

Pyramids Text Structures Pyramids is also divided into sections and headings that help you as a reader figure out main ideas and supporting details. Usually texts in this format are expository. There are many pictures There are captions attached to pictures

Presidents Where exactly in the world are the pyramids located? The oldest stone building in the world. The biggest pyramids is taller than a 40 story building. More than 80 pyramids still stand today. The Pyramids of Egypt Early Egytians buried under piles of rocks Mastabas were tombs made of sunbaked mud Imhotep created the stone pyramid Around 2500 B.C. the greate pyramid at Giza was erected

What a good question to ask a “friendly” who just happened to walk in? Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?

Team Talk Questions 1.Why did the Egyptians need the Nile River to build the pyramids? (Write) 2.Why do you think experts wanted to know how the pyramids were built? (Write) 3.How did the pyramid builders decide where to build a pyramid?

Partner Read- 15 minutes Write 2 unfamiliar words in your journal Read and restate pages Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary words If done early with your reading, work on filling in your tree map

Tree Map Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea

Team Discussion-15minutes Discuss answers to team talk questions Team Talk procedures will be up! Write answers to question 1 and 2

#2 Reads the Question #3 Answers the Question #4 Agrees or disagrees with evidence from the text #1 Summarizes what the groups discussed

Class Discussion What words did your group clarify? How were the words clarified?

Writing Adventures- 15 min Think about the things you do each day. What tools or items do you use each day? What do you do with these tools? How do these tools or items make your life easier? How would your life be different without these tools or items?

Scoring Guide You answer the question25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation10 points

Vocabulary Practice-10 min Divide your words with partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

Fluency – 5 min Page 309 or 315

Fluency Rubric 100 pointsExpressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 pointsSmoothness Rate and correctness 80 pointsRate and correctness 70 pointsCorrectness