1. LOST CITY The Discovery of Machu Picchu
By Ted Lewin
Compiled by:
Terry Sams PES

2. Study Skills Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Comprehension Skill: Compare Contrast
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Comprehension Review Skill: Sequence
Vocabulary: Word Structure – Greek and Latin Roots

3. Summary
Professor Hiram Bingham goes on a journey to Peru to find the lost city of Machu Picchu. With the help of a farmer named Arteaga and a Quechua boy, Bingham finds something unexpected -- the beautiful city of Machu Picchu sitting among the clouds.

4. Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative nonfiction can tell the story of a real event such as the discovery of a lost city. The details of the event are presented in sequence so that readers can understand the cause-and-effect relationships.
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5. Comprehension Skill- Sequence Pg. 551
Sequence means the order in which things happen.
Dates, times, and clue words such as first, then, next, and last can help you understand the order of events.
Sometimes two or more events happen at the same time. Words such as meanwhile and during can show this.

6. Comprehension Strategy Visualize Pg. 538
Good readers visualize as they read.
This means they create pictures in their minds.
Sensory words such as sticky and crackle can help you experience what you are reading.

7. Review Questions Why might so few people have known about the ruins?
What might have happened before the boy had a dream about the stranger?
What did Bingham see after he found the sun temple?
Make a generalization about the Incas from what you have learned in this story.
Why did the author include the boy’s thoughts?

8. Review Questions What did the boy call the camera? Why?
What is the main idea of the selection?
How was the author’s search for the ruins different from Bingham’s?
How would you describe the journey to Machu Picchu?
How are Cusco and the first capital of the Inca alike? Different?

9. Vocabulary - Say It curiosity glorious ruins thickets torrent terraced
granite
thickets
torrent
terraced

10. a violent, rushing stream of water
torrent
a violent, rushing stream of water

11. bushes or small trees growing close together
thickets
bushes or small trees growing close together

12. an eager desire to know or learn
curiosity
an eager desire to know or learn

13. terraced
formed into a flat, level land with steep sides; terraces are often made in hilly areas to create more space for farming

14. magnificent; splendid
glorious
magnificent; splendid

15. what is left after a building, wall, etc., has fallen to pieces
ruins
what is left after a building, wall, etc., has fallen to pieces

16. granite
a very hard gray or pink rock that is formed when lava cools slowly underground

17. Archeologists have curiosity about people who lived long ago.

18. Archeologists have curiosity about people who lived long ago.

19. They had to cut their way through jungles with thickets full of dangerous animals.

20. They had to cut their way through jungles with thickets full of dangerous animals.

21. Professor Bingham discovered the lost ruins of Machu Picchu.

22. Professor Bingham discovered the lost ruins of Machu Picchu.

23. What looks like rocks to us might be a glorious sight to a scientist.

24. What looks like rocks to us might be a glorious sight to a scientist.

25. The terraced fields on the side of the mountain were for growing crops.

26. The terraced fields on the side of the mountain were for growing crops.

27. Granite cliffs rose thousands of feet above the river.

28. Granite cliffs rose thousands of feet above the river.

29. They had to cross mountain rivers that fall in a raging torrent.

30. They had to cross mountain rivers that fall in a raging torrent.

31. local basic tiger vacant beware secret donate tripod emotion locust
Spelling Words Syllable Patterns v/cv and vc/v When the vowel sound in the first syllable is long, divide after the vowel.
local
tiger
beware
donate
emotion
basic
vacant
secret
tripod
locust

32. second honor cabin novel habit lizard dragon tribute olive spinach
Spelling Words Syllable Patterns v/cv and vc/v When the vowel sound in the first syllable is short, divide after the consonant.
second
cabin
habit
dragon
olive
honor
novel
lizard
tribute
spinach

33. CHALLENGE
icicles
lemonade
momentum
economy
isosceles