2. Bringing Words To Life By: Stephanie Wilson-Murray Mount Rainier ES

3. IntroductionIntroduction

4. Bringing Words To Life Boss of the Plains Opportunity Picturesque Distinctive

5. Opportunity In the story, John had the opportunity to travel west with a group of travelers. An opportunity is a good chance.

6. Opportunity The boy had an opportunity to go to football camp so that he could improve.

7. Opportunity Which situation would be a great opportunity? Getting a scholarship to go to college?

8. Opportunity Or strolling around an amusement park?

9. Opportunity That’s right! Getting a scholarship to go to college is a great opportunity.

10. Opportunity Share some examples of opportunities you have had. Discuss them with your partner.

11. Picturesque John made a big and picturesque hat, so that everyone would want to wear one. Something that is picturesque is beautiful, as if it were a picture.

12. Picturesque They looked at the gorgeous beach, the crystal blue water and the sunny day and thought, “How picturesque!”

13. Picturesque Which place is picturesque? A dirty alley?

14. Picturesque Or a river valley?

15. Picturesque That’s right! A river valley is picturesque.

16. Picturesque Describe something that is picturesque. Discuss it with your partner.

17. Distinctive The cowboy paid a lot of money to wear John’s distinctive hat. If something is distinctive, it is unusual or not like all the others.

18. Distinctive I could hear the roomful of people laughing and I knew my mom was in there because her distinctive laugh was louder than all the others.

19. Distinctive Which situation would be distinctive? Wearing a bathing suit in winter?

20. Distinctive Or wearing a scarf in winter?

21. Distinctive That’s right! Wearing a bathing suit in winter would be distinctive.

22. Distinctive Name examples of distinctive clothing that you own. Discuss them with your partner.

23. Follow-up Activities

24. Would you like the opportunity to wear a distinctive hat? Why or why not?

25. Would seeing the picturesque Great Wall of China be an opportunity? Why or why not?

26. Would a picturesque painting be distinctive? Why or why not?

27. Would you marvel at a picturesque view? Why or why not?

28. Would you have wanted the opportunity to go lurching across the country in covered wagons? Why or why not?

29. What made John’s hats distinctive?

30. John wanted to make big and picturesque hats, did he succeed?

31. What else in the story could be described as picturesque?

32. How did John get the opportunity to go West?

33. What other opportunities did he take advantage of?

34. Assessment-Day 6

35. Yes or No? Would going to jail be an opportunity? Explain.

36. Yes or No? Could you design a distinctive costume? Explain.

37. Yes or No? If you had a picturesque house, would you want to give it away? Explain.

38. THE END Let’s try to use these words as we work and play today.