: Author: Fred Gipson : Genre: Historical Fiction Big Question: How can we help protect those we love?

Story Sort Vocabulary Words:  Arcade Games Arcade Games  Study Stack Study Stack  Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling City: Vocabulary  Spelling City: Spelling Words Spelling City: Spelling Words

 answered  answering  traveled  traveling  chopped  chopping  qualified  qualifying  panicked  panicking  interfered  interfering  omitted  omitting  magnified  magnifying  patrolled  patrolling  skied  skiing  mimicked  mimicking  dignified  dignifying  staggered  staggering

K (What do you know?) W (What would you like to learn?) L (What did you learn?)

 lunging – moving forward suddenly; thrusting  nub – a lump or a small piece  romping – playing roughly in a boisterous wayromping  rowdy – rough; disorderly; quarrelsome

 slung – thrown, cast, or hurled; threw  speckled – spotted; marked with many small spotsspeckled

 chaparral – a dense thicket of low busheschaparral  poultice – a soft moist mass of mustard, herbs, and other substances applied to the bodypoultice  squawling – crying; bawling  (Next Slide) (Next Slide)

romping

speckled

nub

slung

lunging

rowdy

chaparral

poultice

 answered  answering  traveled  traveling  chopped  chopping  qualified  qualifying  panicked  panicking  interfered  interfering  omitted  omitting  magnified  magnifying  patrolled  patrolling  skied  skiing  mimicked  mimicking  dignified  dignifying  staggered  staggering

 Turn to page 32, first two paragraphs.  Read these paragraphs three times with a partner. Be sure to read with proper emotion. Offer each other feedback.

 The setting is very important to the events in some stories, while it may be unimportant in other stories.  In general, the more a setting is described and the more the characters interact with the setting, the more important the setting is to the plot.

 Point of view is the perspective from which an author presents the actions and characters in a story.  The two main points of view are first person (the narrator is a character in the story) and third person (the narrator is not a character in the story).

 In first-person point of view, the narrator refers to himself or herself as I.  In third-person point of view, the narrator refers to all the characters, including himself or herself, as he, she, or they.

 You can use base words and word endings to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.  Identify the base word and ending of each italicized word in the chart. They use context clues, and if necessary, a dictionary to determine each word’s meaning.

 Graphic organizers have many uses.  A KWL chart is a three-column chart in which you list what you know, what you want to know, and what you learned about a topic.

 A web diagram is a group of connected circles or ovals. It is used to highlight a central concept and connect it to related details.

 A Venn diagram consists of two overlapping circles or ovals. It is used to compare and contrast topics.

 A time line shows a series of dates and events in chronological order. Dates Events

 A T-chart is an open, two-column chart. It is often used to explore or compare two topics.