1. Theme 6 Selection 1 Selection 3 Selection 2Nature: Friend and Foe

2. Nature  In what ways do you interact with nature? How does nature affect your life? How do you affect nature?  Why do you think this theme is called Nature: Friend and Foe?  How does the poem show nature as a friend? As a foe?

4. Genre: Nonfiction Factual writing about real people things and events Nature: Friend and Foe

5. Purposes for Reading Strategy focus: summarize Comprehension skill: following directions Vocabulary development Critical thinking, discussion Nature: Friend and Foe

6. Key Vocabulary abundance ancestors lure spawn filets scavengers Nature: Friend and Foe

8. Genre: Expository Nonfiction Informational writing presents and explains real people, things, and events Nature: Friend and Foe

9. Purposes for Reading Strategy focus: monitor/clarify Comprehension skill: topic, main idea, details Vocabulary development Critical thinking, discussion Nature: Friend and Foe

10. Key Vocabulary ablaze aggressively charred consumed cycles ember flammable renew Nature: Friend and Foe

12. Genre: Historical Fiction This fictional story uses believable characters and events to recreate a past time. Nature: Friend and Foe

13. Purposes for Reading Strategy focus: predict/infer Comprehension skill: making inferences Vocabulary development Critical thinking, discussion Nature: Friend and Foe

14. Key Vocabulary corral coyote drought prairie slumped phonograph Nature: Friend and Foe