1. : Author: Fred Gipson : Genre: Historical Fiction Big Question: How can we help protect those we love?

2. Story Sort Vocabulary Words:  Arcade Games Arcade Games  Study Stack Study Stack  Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling City: Vocabulary  Spelling City: Spelling Words Spelling City: Spelling Words

4.  answered  answering  traveled  traveling  chopped  chopping  qualified  qualifying  panicked  panicking  interfered  interfering  omitted  omitting  magnified  magnifying  patrolled  patrolling  skied  skiing  mimicked  mimicking  dignified  dignifying  staggered  staggering

6. K (What do you know?) W (What would you like to learn?) L (What did you learn?)

8.  lunging – moving forward suddenly; thrusting  nub – a lump or a small piece  romping – playing roughly in a boisterous wayromping  rowdy – rough; disorderly; quarrelsome

9.  slung – thrown, cast, or hurled; threw  speckled – spotted; marked with many small spotsspeckled

10.  chaparral – a dense thicket of low busheschaparral  poultice – a soft moist mass of mustard, herbs, and other substances applied to the bodypoultice  squawling – crying; bawling  (Next Slide) (Next Slide)

11. romping

12. speckled

13. nub

14. slung

15. lunging

16. rowdy

17. chaparral

18. poultice

20.  answered  answering  traveled  traveling  chopped  chopping  qualified  qualifying  panicked  panicking  interfered  interfering  omitted  omitting  magnified  magnifying  patrolled  patrolling  skied  skiing  mimicked  mimicking  dignified  dignifying  staggered  staggering

24.  Turn to page 32, first two paragraphs.  Read these paragraphs three times with a partner. Be sure to read with proper emotion. Offer each other feedback.

25.  The setting is very important to the events in some stories, while it may be unimportant in other stories.  In general, the more a setting is described and the more the characters interact with the setting, the more important the setting is to the plot.

26.  Point of view is the perspective from which an author presents the actions and characters in a story.  The two main points of view are first person (the narrator is a character in the story) and third person (the narrator is not a character in the story).

27.  In first-person point of view, the narrator refers to himself or herself as I.  In third-person point of view, the narrator refers to all the characters, including himself or herself, as he, she, or they.

28.  You can use base words and word endings to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.  Identify the base word and ending of each italicized word in the chart. They use context clues, and if necessary, a dictionary to determine each word’s meaning.

30.  Graphic organizers have many uses.  A KWL chart is a three-column chart in which you list what you know, what you want to know, and what you learned about a topic.

31.  A web diagram is a group of connected circles or ovals. It is used to highlight a central concept and connect it to related details.

32.  A Venn diagram consists of two overlapping circles or ovals. It is used to compare and contrast topics.

33.  A time line shows a series of dates and events in chronological order. Dates Events

34.  A T-chart is an open, two-column chart. It is often used to explore or compare two topics.