1. Story: The Night of the Pomegranate
Unit 2 Week 2
The Solar System
Story: The Night of the Pomegranate

2. Strategy
You must generate questions in order to understand what you are reading better. By generating questions you will begin to make inferences about the characters and the plot.

3. Skill: Make Inferences
You can use story clues and prior knowledge to make logical connections that are not directly stated by the author. You should be able to mak inferences about story events and the main characters’ actions by the end of the story.

4. Seasoned with a spice such as pepper or cinnamon.
Spicy(adj)
Seasoned with a spice such as pepper or cinnamon.
I love spicy food.

5. Broadcast: (noun)
Information or entertainment sent out by radio or television.
The broadcast came over the news of a large meteorite coming to earth.

6. Unsatisfactory (adj) not good enough
The student turned in an assignment that was
Unsatisfactory, and she received a bad grade.

7. Calculations:(verb)
the process of figuring out something using mathematics.
Through the astronomer’s calculations, he located a new star.

8. Unfastened, untied, open
Undone(verb)
Unfastened, untied, open
The girls string art became undone and she had to start all over.

9. Vigil
Vigil: (verb)
The act or period of remaining awake to guard or observe.
Mary was very vigil, when she
stayed at her little brothers
side as he battled his illness.

10. Ravaged: (verb) Laid waste to, destroyed.
The meteorite ravaged the planet.

11. To become filled with wonder or astonishment.
Marveled: (verb)
To become filled with wonder or astonishment.
Henry marveled at our beautiful Solar System.

12. Story Words
Bristol board: cardboard with a smooth surface
Prickly ash: a shrub or small tree with yellowish flowers
Juniper: and evergreen shrub or tree or the cypress family
Taurus, Pleiades, Hyades: Taurus is a constellation that contains the star clusters Pleides and Hyades. It is represented by bull’s forequarters.