1. How can a focus on the future help us imagine new possibilities?
Get Ready to Read
How can a focus on the future help us imagine new possibilities?
How might people live in the future?
What movies, shows or books have you seen about people in the future?
How does science fiction help you imagine life in the future?
What would it be like to live on a space station?
What might we need to accomplish before humans can live on Mars?
What do you think will power future homes on Earth?

2. Listen for the following words in Space Settlement:
Get Ready to Read
Amazing Words
Listen for the following words in Space Settlement:
Hub
Weightlessly
Perpetual
Vastness

3. Vastness – the quality of being very great or immense
Get Ready to Read
In Space Settlement, we learn that the children played in a pool near the hub. A hub is the center of a wheel or a center of activity.
Vastness – the quality of being very great or immense
The vastness of the Grand Canyon can take a person’s breath away.
Where on Earth or in the universe is a place that has a sense of vastness?
Weightlessly – to be free from the pull of gravity.
Astronauts learn to perform daily tasks weightlessly.
How do astronauts prepare to live weightlessly?

4. What do these terms mean? What clue words signal a comparison?
Read and Comprehend
Compare and Contrast
What do these terms mean?
What clue words signal a comparison?
What clue words signal contrast?
What type of organizer can help compare and contrast?

5. Story Structure Read page 269.
Read and Comprehend
Story Structure
Read page 269.
What details bring the characters to life? What do these characters reveal about the theme of the story?
Create a venn diagram like the one on page 268 to compare and contrast these characters.

6. Vocabulary Which of these words do you already know?
Read and Comprehend
Vocabulary
Which of these words do you already know?
Which ones are you not sure of?
Combustion
Dingy
Negotiate
Traversed
Waft
Waning

7. different sentence American brilliant substitute opinion material
Language Arts
Time for your Spelling Pre-Test
Take out a piece of paper and put your heading on it.
different
sentence
American
brilliant
substitute
opinion
material
complete
jewelry
dramatic
instance
communicate
hesitate
elementary
vitamin
ingredients
invitation
discipline
lasagna
desperate

8. Language Arts

9. Writing a fantasy story.
Language Arts
Writing a fantasy story.
Unlike realistic fiction, fantasy stories feature elements such as characters, settings, or events that could not exist in reality.
Key features –
May have made-up events, characters, setting
Some story elements may be realistic
The setting may be in the future or on another world
Brainstorm some ideas of:
settings you could use in a fantasy story
characters you could use
Events you could include