1. Author: E.L. Konigsburg Genre: Humorous Fiction
Big Question: How can different generations be resources?
Author:
E.L. Konigsburg
Genre:
Humorous Fiction

2. Review Games Vocabulary Words: Story Sort Arcade Games Study Stack
Spelling City: Vocabulary
Spelling City: Spelling Words

3. Spelling Words Suffixes –ate, -ive,-ship

4. activate
negative
friendship
objective
representative
attractive
creative
membership
partnership
compassionate
fortunate
considerate
secretive
scholarship
restrictive
affectionate
cooperative
originate
township
relationship
alienate
affirmative
dictatorship
championship
rehabilitate

5. Concept Vocabulary background – heritage
judge – to form an opinion about someone or something
native – belonging by birth to a specific nation or culture
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6. Build Concept Vocabulary background, judge, native
History
Interactions
Family Relationships

7. Plot, Predict

8. W (What would you like to learn?)
Prior Knowledge What happens to people in our culture when they get old?
K (What do you know?)
W (What would you like to learn?)
L (What did you learn?)

9. Vocabulary Words

10. Vocabulary Words Test – Thursday, Feb. 26th
accustomed – usual, customary
decline – process of losing power, strength, beauty, health, etc; downward movement
former – earlier; past
presence – attendance
unaccompanied – alone

11. More Words to Know decode – translate
defrost – remove the accumulated ice from
derailed – went off the tracks
deformed – crooked and misshapen
deface – damage
devalue – discredit
demerit – a mark received for a fault of offense

12. More Words to Know
superstitious – having belief or practice based on ignorant fear or mistaken reverence

13. corsages

14. rabbi

15. Grammar Contractions and Negatives

16. Contractions and Negatives
“Mrs. Potter bought a new dress and flew down for the wedding, but we didn’t fly down together.
Didn’t is a contraction. It is formed from the words did and not. The apostrophe shows where the letter o in not has been left out.

17. Contractions and Negatives
A contraction is a shortened form of two words. An apostrophe is used to show where one or more letters have been left out.
Some contractions are made by combining pronouns and verbs: we + have = we’ve.

18. Contractions and Negatives
Other contractions are formed by joining a verb and not: should + not = shouldn’t; could + have= could’ve.
Won’t and can’t are formed in special ways (can + not = can’t; will + not = won’t)

19. Contractions and Negatives
Negatives are words that mean “no” or “not”: no, not, never, none, nothing. Contractions with n’t are negatives too.
To make a negative statement, use only one negative word.

20. Contractions and Negatives
No: Don’t never use the wrong zip code.
Yes: Don’t ever use the wrong zip code.
Use positive words instead of negative ones in a sentence with not.

21. Contractions and Negatives
Positive
nobody
anybody, somebody
no one
anyone, someone
none
any, all, some
nothing
anything, something
nowhere
anywhere, somewhere
never
ever, always

22. Contractions and Negatives What is the contraction for each pair of words?
does not
doesn’t
I have
I’ve
they are
they’re
has not
hasn’t
they are
they’re
I have
I’ve

23. Contractions and Negatives What is the contraction for each pair of words?
has not
hasn’t
does not
doesn’t
should have
should’ve
we will
we’ll
can not
can’t

24. Contractions and Negatives Choose the word in ( ) that correctly completes each sentence.
The invitation didn’t have (no, any) mistakes.
any
Nothing should (ever, never) go wrong at a wedding.
ever

25. The View from Saturday

26. Spelling Words Suffixes –ate, -ive,-ship

27. activate
negative
friendship
objective
representative
attractive
creative
membership
partnership
compassionate
fortunate
considerate
secretive
scholarship
restrictive
affectionate
cooperative
originate
township
relationship
alienate
affirmative
dictatorship
championship
rehabilitate

28. Plot
A plot includes (1) a problem or goal, (2) rising action, as a character tries to solve the problem or meet the goal, (3) a climax, when the character meets the problem or goal head on, and (4) a resolution, or outcome

29. Plot
Sometimes a writer hints at an event that will happen later in the story. Such a hint is called foreshadowing.
Sometimes a writer goes back in time to tell about an earlier event. The earlier event is called a flashback.

30. Flashback
In a story, a flashback occurs when the narrator begins describing something that happened in his or her past.
A flashback can begin at any point in a story.
Flashbacks are often complete stories within a larger frame story. A flashback can have its own plot, characters, settings, and themes.

31. Antonyms
Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. If you encounter a difficult word while reading, you should look for an antonym near the word for clues to the word’s meaning.

32. Antonyms
In the following sentences, name the antonym that helps determine the meaning of each unknown word in italics.
My mother thinks that the highway exit sign was undetectable, but I noticed it right away.

33. Antonyms
My grandfather always says that it takes a great deal of fortitude to overcome an obstacle, but that weakness will get you nowhere.

34. Schedule
A schedule is a kind of table made of rows and columns, also called cells, that contain information.
A schedule can show times, dates, and locations for traveling or transportation, or things you have to do.
It can show the times and dates of events, usually in chronological order.