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2. Letters Home from Yosemite

3. Today you will… Finish reading the text Answer questions from the text
Answer vocabulary questions

4. Team Cooperation Goal Complete tasks

5. Title: Letters Home from Yosemite
Reading Goal: Main Idea and supporting details
Team Cooperation Goal: Completing Tasks
Genre: Expository
Author: Lisa Halvorsen

6. Review Vocabulary with Partner
Can you say it?
Can you define it?
Can you say it in a sentence?

7. Vocabulary Vault

8. Letters Home from Yosemite

9. Let’s finish filling in our SQRRRL Maps

10. Where is Yosemite National Park
In the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mountains cover 15.5 million acres
Yosemite Valley is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide
Black bears often raid camps for food
Mule deer graze by roadside
Bobcats, coyote, jackrabbits, marmots, sheep, rattlesnakes
Topography
Wildlife
Letters from Yosemit
Let’s answer the question.
El Capitan
Glacier Point
3,200 feet above the valley floor
Lovely view of park features
Good place to watch the peregrine falcons
Spanish for “the captain”
Biggest block of granite on Earth
Famous climbing spot
3,600 feet high
Ribbon Fall plunges 1,612 feet
Where is Yosemite National Park

11. Where is Yosemite located?
Yosemite is located in California about four hours south of San Francisco.
When you arrive in Yosemite, you will be greeted by Arch Rock.

12. Test Day
Today you will finish reading Letters Home from Yosemite. You will learn a few more amazing facts about this special place.
You will work on this alone
You will use your strategies to answer the questions
Add main ideas and supporting details to your tree maps
You will have 35 minutes

13. Team Discussion-15minutes
Discuss the strategies that you used
Discuss the answers to the test
Add anything else to your tree maps

14. Class Discussion
Let’s review the answers to the test