1. Explorers, Pioneers, and Discoveries
Unit 4 Week 1 Day 1

2. Unit 4 Big Question:
How have those who’ve gone first influenced those who’ve gone after?

3. Question of the Week:
What drives people to explore harsh climates and dangerous places?

4. Skill: Cause and Effect
A cause is why something happens
An effect is what happens as a result of a cause
Example:
Situation: I wanted to go to the movies but my mother said no. Cause: I got angry and very rude with my mother. Effect: Not only did I not get to see the movie, I got grounded for 2 weeks.

5. Important Ideas
Important ideas are essential ideas and supporting details in a nonfiction selection
Important ideas include information and facts that provide clues to the author’s purpose

6. Tested Vocabulary conquer isolation destiny navigator expedition
provisions
insulated
verify

7. Spelling Words: Greek Word Parts
hydrant
dehydrated
synchronize
chronic
chronicle
hydraulic
archive
hydroplane
archaeology
synonym
chronology
anarchy
antonym
archaic
hydroelectric
democracy
homonym
bureaucracy
hydrogen
aristocrat

8. Pronouns Pronouns are the part of speech that substitutes for nouns
Examples of pronouns: he she, it, you, they, we, her, him, who, whom, them
Using noun: Chelsea set the book on Chelsea’s bed.
Instead, use a pronoun: Chelsea set the book on her bed.

9. Independent Work: Tested vocabulary (due Wednesday)
Spelling menu (due Friday)
Read choice novel
Work on writing