1. Theme Question: What Makes the West Exceptional? Focus Questions: Week 1: How are geography and economy connected in the Mountain states? Week 2: How are geography and economy connected in the Pacific States? Week 3: What is life like in the Mountain States? Week 4: What is life like in the Pacific States?

2. * extremes * irrigated * arid

3. Preview and Predict * Pp. 380-391 Purpose * Find answers to the Theme Question. * Set your own purpose. * What do you think the author’s purpose is for this selection? Why do you think so?

4. Idea = i / de / aLion = li / on UnusualRadio LiarPoem Fuelpiano Diaryviolin

5. Theme Question: What Makes the West Exceptional? Focus Questions: Week 1: How are geography and economy connected in the Mountain states? Week 2: How are geography and economy connected in the Pacific States? Week 3: What is life like in the Mountain States? Week 4: What is life like in the Pacific States?

6. * extremes * irrigated * arid

7. What I readWhat I visualize

8. Preview and Predict * Pages 392-395 Purpose * Find answers to the Theme Question. * Set your own purpose. * Write down one scene that you visualized while reading.

9. Theme Question: What Makes the West Exceptional? Focus Questions: Week 1: How are geography and economy connected in the Mountain states? Week 2: How are geography and economy connected in the Pacific States? Week 3: What is life like in the Mountain States? Week 4: What is life like in the Pacific States?

10. * Words that have the same, or almost the same, meaning. * Finding synonyms will help you to learn new words and better understand words you already know. * On page 388, find words that are synonyms that have to do with the Colorado River. Use page 391 of the Theme Reader. List words from the text and then the synonym for each word. Word from TextSynonym

11. * A generalization is a broad statement that combines different examples that are mostly alike. * The words all, none, most, or many often appear in a generalization. Read page 384. use these ideas from the text to make a generalization about the economy. Mountains are used for mining. Plains are used for farming. The Colorado River is good for tourism.

12. Reread * Pp. 382-395 A Tour of the Western Region Purpose * Focus on how text features provide important information about the text and help them answer the Theme Question. * Focus on line graphs- page 395

13. un-, de-, dis-, counter-, mis- Have negative meanings such as “not” or “away” Identify the meanings based on the prefixes: undecidedcounter-clockwise declinemismatched detachmistreat dismayed

14. Theme Question: What Makes the West Exceptional? Focus Questions: Week 1: How are geography and economy connected in the Mountain states? Week 2: How are geography and economy connected in the Pacific States? Week 3: What is life like in the Mountain States? Week 4: What is life like in the Pacific States?

15. * extremes * irrigated * arid

16. * Tell your neighbor what it means to visualize. * Discuss other reading strategies you know.

17. Page #Text Evidence

18. depart unharmed misuse counterfeit disappear demote