1. Amazing Alice from Coast to Coast with Alice Genre: Historical Fiction
Author’s Purpose: Entertain
Skill: Summarizing
By: Patricia Rusch Hyatt
Compiled by Terry Sams, Piedmont

2. Summary
   
Hermine Jahns, a 15-year-old girl, has the chance of a lifetime!  It's 1909, and she's going cross-country by car with Alice Ramsey and Alice's sisters-in-law.  Alice Ramsey is the first woman to ever try such a feat.  The women have many adventures.  Without reliable road maps, it's hard to find their way.  When a bolt falls out, Alice Ramsey repairs the car with baling wire and hairpins.  They almost get swamped by flash floods in Utah.  Despite these setbacks, they make it to San Francisco in a record-breaking 59 days!  

3. Genre: Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction is fiction that takes place in the past.
The author makes up the characters and events, but the characters and events seem real.
The setting is important, and the problems and events are based on things that really did or could have happened during the time period.

4. Comprehension Skill: Summarizing
A summary give the main ideas of an article, or it tells what happened in a story.
A summary is short , and it does NOT include unimportant details.
A summary will help you recall and organize information.
What is a Summary?
What are the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?

5. Comprehension Skill Review – Graphic Sources
Authors sometimes include graphic sources to explain the information included in their writing.
Examples of graphic sources can be maps, photographs, and captions for the photographs.
What are some of the graphic sources in the story of Alice?

6. Practice – Graphic Sources
What They Show or Tell
maps
photographs
captions
where they are in each journal entry, large map show travel route
what people and place look like
information about photographs

7. Vocabulary Skill Review : Synonyms
Words with similar meanings are called synonyms.
You can often figure out the meaning of an unknown word by finding a synonym in the words or sentences around it.
Click Here to practice synonyms

8. Weekly Fluency Check - Read with Appropriate Phrasing
Students should read with appropriate phrasing.
Phrasing makes the reading in Alice more conversational.
Journals often use interjects, for example, “Great Golliwogs!” This makes the writing more like personal conversation rather than a formal writing.
Go to pages , beginning with “August 6, 1909.”

9. Figurative Language – Simile and Metaphor
Figurative language is a language that goes beyond the ordinary meanings of words. Similes and metaphors help make the images in the story richer and clearer.
A simile uses words like or as to compare two things that are not alike.
Maggie hopped over the railroad ties like a jackrabbit.
A metaphor also compares two things that are not alike but it does not use any words of comparison.
This Iowa is a bathtub of mud.

10. Review Pages 458-465 What is the setting of the story?
The story is told by whom?
Who travels on the cross- country trip?
How is Alice different from other women?
What problems do the women have with the Blue Book?

11. Review Pages
What is comical about the women having to get a permit to cross the bridge?
Summarize the events as they happened in Wyoming.
How does Alice fix the tie rod when it breaks? What does this say about Alice’s character?

12. Summary Amazing Alice
Write a summary of this story. Include each of the following points.
Setting
Characters – include how Alice is different from other women
What were the women trying to do?
Problems with the Blue Book
Were they successful?
End with your opinion of what these women did and if you think you could have done the same thing.

13. Fun Stuff to Do ABC order the spelling words Vocabulary quiz
Spelling Hangman
Type in a word to find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more:
Practice Same or difference
Synonym Matchup
Synonym Test
History of the First Car
Stagecoaches
Reading Test
Download Shockwave to play same or difference

14. Say It!
blacksmith
crank
dependable
forge
ravines
telegraph

15. More Words to Know
chaperones
contraptions
odometer
tiller
trestle

16. blacksmith
an ironworker

17. a part of a machine that sets it in motion (handle on a machine)
crank
a part of a machine that sets it in motion (handle on a machine)

18. a framework used as a bridge to support railroad tracks or a road
trestle
a framework used as a bridge to support railroad tracks or a road

19. reliable; able to be counted on
dependable
reliable; able to be counted on

20. forge
a blacksmith's shop

21. ravines
deep, narrow valleys

22. A device used to send coded messages over wires
telegraph
A device used to send coded messages over wires

23. people responsible for other people's behavior
chaperones
people responsible for other people's behavior

24. contraptions
devices or gadgets

25. a gauge used to measure distance traveled
odometer
a gauge used to measure distance traveled

26. a handle used to steer a rudder
tiller
a handle used to steer a rudder

27. Hayden sent the message over the telegraph.

28. Hayden sent the message over the telegraph.

29. The trestle on the bridge was damaged when the train hit.

30. The trestle on the bridge was damaged when the train hit.

31. The ladies when along to act as chaperones.

32. The ladies when along to act as chaperones.

33. Marty was busy at work in the forge making a new crank for her car.

34. Marty was busy at work in the forge making a new crank for her car.

35. The new blacksmith will work in our shop.

36. The new blacksmith will work in our shop.

37. That was quite a contraption they used to start the engine of the car.

38. That was quite a contraption they used to start the engine of the car.

39. The man anxiously turned the crank to get the plane started.

40. The man anxiously turned the crank to get the plane started.

41. The car used a handle called a tiller as a steering wheel.

42. The car used a handle called a tiller as a steering wheel.

43. I will use Tammy as my babysitter because she is very reliable.

44. I will use Tammy as my babysitter because she is very dependable.

45. The women traveled across the treacherous landscape that included ravines.

46. The women traveled across the treacherous landscape that included ravines.

47. Ben Franklin invented the odometer to tell how far something has traveled.

48. Ben Franklin invented the odometer to tell how far something has traveled.

49. My uncle, Jim, works as a blacksmith at Dollywood.

50. My uncle, Jim, works as a blacksmith at Dollywood.

51. Spelling Words – Prefixes dis-, in-, mis-, re-
dislike
disappear
distrust
dishonest
disagree
incomplete
independent
incorrect
invisible
inactive

52. Spelling Words Prefixes dis-, in-, mis-, re-
rebuild
reuse
react
replace
recall
misplace
misspell
misled
mistreat
misbehave

53. Word Wall Words
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54. Let’s review our spelling words
Let’s review our spelling words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We will clap as we spell the word..

55. recall

56. replace

57. react

58. reuse

59. rebuild

60. misbehave

61. mistreat

62. misled

63. misspell

64. misplace

65. inactive

66. invisible

67. incorrect

68. independent

69. incomplete

70. disagree

71. dishonest

72. distrust

73. disappear

74. dislike

75. GREAT JOB!