1. Why is it important to learn about America’s past?
Getting Ready to Read
Why is it important to learn about America’s past?
How have archaeologists preserved America’s past?
Why is it important to irrigate land?
How would you describe a mesa? Have you ever been to one?

2. Getting Ready to Read
Amazing Words
Anthropologist – Look at page What does an anthropologist want to learn about America’s past?
Why is it important for an anthropologist to study how people lived?
What helps an anthropologist study the past?
What is the difference between an anthropologist and an archaeologist?
What is a question you could ask an anthropologist?
Inquisitive – to be curious and to ask many questions
People who are inquisitive are often considered intelligent.
What are the positive and negative characteristics of being inquisitive?

3. Word Analysis Spanish/Native American Word English Meaning Mesa
Getting Ready to Read
Word Analysis
Spanish/Native American Word
English Meaning
Mesa
Flat land formation
Pueblo
Navajo
canyon

4. Literary Terms Dialogue
Getting Ready to Read
Literary Terms
Dialogue
Take a look at page Is there dialogue in the story?
Who participates in the dialogue?
What do they talk about?
The dialogue is used to tell the story of the Pueblo people and to move the action forward in the story.

5. Charts, Diagrams, and Graphs
Getting Ready to Read
Text Features
Charts, Diagrams, and Graphs
Look back at “In One Place or on the Move” on page 235.
Does this selection use any text features?
What does the chart help you understand?
What text features are in Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs?

6. Vocabulary Strategy for Unknown Words
Read and Comprehend
Vocabulary Strategy for Unknown Words
My parents brought me a small piece of obsidian from their trip to the Grand Canyon.
Look up obsidian – what does it mean?
It is hard to believe that it has been more than four decades since my grandparents go married in the Grand Canyon.
What does decades mean?
Read A Door into the Past. Use a glossary or dictionary to find the meanings of the highlighted words.

7. Reread for Fluency Appropriate Phrasing
Read and Comprehend
Reread for Fluency
Appropriate Phrasing
Read paragraph 7 of A Door Into the Past aloud, using changes of voice level and pausing to emphasize different types of punctuation. Use plenty of expression. Now listen as your partner reads the same paragraph out loud.

8. What do archaeologists study? What can archaeology teach us?
Read and Comprehend
What do archaeologists study?
What can archaeology teach us?
Can you name something that archaeologists use to find information?
Expository Text provides information about real people, things or events. They often include text features, such as chapters, charts, photos and captions.
Read pages Pay attention to the text features as you read.

9. Research and Inquiry Navigate/Search
Language Arts
Research and Inquiry
Navigate/Search
You will be using your questions to research information for your presentation

10. Action and Linking Verbs
Language Arts
Action and Linking Verbs
The archaeologist is tired and hot.
She seems very patient while digging through the dirt.
Is and seems are linking verbs that join the subjects of the sentences with other words and phrases that describe the subject.
What are the action or linking verbs in these phrases?
he runs fast
we drove all day
she is happy
I am hungry

11. Final Syllable Patterns
Language Arts
Spelling Practice
Final Syllable Patterns
Go through your spelling words and underline the endings.
Fill in a chart like the one below:
-or words
-er words
-al words
-le words
-en words
-on words

12. Language Arts
Writing a mystery:
Continue writing your rough draft. When you have finished, read it out loud and think about whether it makes sense. Is it filled with suspense? Will it keep the reader on the edge of his or her seat?