Unit 1 Week 5 day 3

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Ten Mile Day
Day 3
What challenges do
immigrants encounter?
• How do the immigrants who worked for the
Central Pacific Railroad show allegiance to
the company?
• What groups do you feel allegiance to?
• Think about emblems that symbolize
America. What emblems are meaningful to
you?
Concept Map
• Let’s add the words allegiance and
emblems under New Country, because
immigrants needed to have a new
allegiance to their new country.
• They had to learn to recognize new
emblems for their new country.
• sustenance- means food or nourishment, or
source of strength or life
• What type of sustenance do you think the
workers will receive throughout the day?
• Teach your partner what this amazing word means.
• adversity- means great difficulty or
hardship
• The pioneers faced many adversities as
they crossed the Great Plains.
• Teach your partner what this amazing word
means
• Barren- unable to produce fruit
• Syn-fruitless
• The farmer’s trees were barren and looked
empty in the field.
• Deafening- very loud
• Syn-earsplitting
• The jet roared over the house with a
deafening roar.
• Lurched- rolled suddenly
• Syn-blundered
• The car lurched forward in the garage.
• Previous- occurs before in time
• Syn- earlier
• She enjoyed the previous show better.
• Prying- to look at closely
• Syn-inquiring
• The girl looked into the closet with prying
eyes.
• Surveying- looking carefully at
• Syn-appraise
• He was surveying the hill for his cat.
We need our books
now.
You will retell the part of the story we read
yesterday.
When you retell you:
Include all important details
Maintain the meaning of the story
Keep the story in a logical order
Retell the story to your partner.
• An effect is something that happens.
• What question can we ask to identify an
effect?
• We should ask “what happened?”
• A cause is why something happens.
• What question can we ask to identify a
cause?
• We can ask “Why did this happen?”
• What other clue words can we look for?
We can begin again on page 154…
Who can summarize in one sentence what
happens on page 154?
The crew’s quick work is the effect, but it
doesn’t tell us the cause.
• Let’s read on to page 156 and 157…
• Why did it take the men extra time to mold
and fit every rail after lunch?
• Use the story to help describe the effects
of the climb up the Promontory Mountains.
• Infer what the crew’s progress will be in
the afternoon
With your partner read the story “Coming to the
United States.”
Don’t stop until I tell you to.
Read aloud either together or one at a time.
Make sure to use good pacing and correct
voice inflection
• Let’s read page 158-159…
• The main cause in this story was the bet
Crocker made.
• What was the overall organization of the
text?
• This overall organization of this story was
cause-and-effect
With your partner, please
retell the story.
Contractions
This week we will use words
that are a shortened form of two
words. They contain
apostrophes that show where
letters have been left out.
• Often misspelled words:
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That is
That’s
You are
You’re
Does not
Doesn’t
Could have
Could’ve
Lets take a look at our
Daily Fix it
are nouns that
represent groups of people.
• Army audience board class company
• Corporation council department firm
• Group jury majority navy school team
This week we are writing an expository
composition. An expository composition is
a nonfiction writing that informs readers
about a topic.
An expository composition tells about:
Real people
Real events
Gives readers a description about
something
Gives readers an explanation about
something
Expository compositions contain:
An introduction with a topic sentence
Body with main idea and supporting
details
conclusion
• Let’s look at page 162-163
• We are going to read a model of an
expository composition.