2. Are recorded information about a writer's own experience while traveling to an unfamiliar place. **which may include descriptive accounts of : >people >landscape >language >things/ objects >places >climate

3. Is his or her choice of words, details, and focus. Signal words : Are words that highlight the relationships among ideas. Examples : After five days, they had not yet returned. > TIME Although this was the sarm season, no one could live in this canyon because of the cold. > CONTRAST

4. Write a short exploration narrative based on the pictures shown. What will be your focus? Place, climate, events, people, etc….

5.  READ : A Journey Through Texas  Highlight signal words.  Answer the following questions: 1) Why do the Indians fear continuing on ahead? 2) What words signal time in? 3) What prevents some of the expedition group from completing the planned trip? 4) What specific details about the region does the author provide?

6.  Entreated  Feigned  Mortality  Subsisted  Traversed  dispatched