Transcript Akiak Vocabulary - Vacaville Unified School District

My Brothers’
Flying
Machine
Wilbur, Orville, and Me
LindaC/Callison/2012
Other books by
Jane Yolen
. . . and many more
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Read the definition
Look at the picture
Try to guess the word
Click to see the word
Note to Teachers: Treasures recommends
you use the DEA (Define/Example/Ask)
Routine to introduce vocabulary. This
power point does not use this routine and
is meant to be used after students have
been introduced to vocabulary words.
to put something together
assemble
lifting a heavy object
hoisting
something that’s guaranteed
or certain
assured
titles of newspaper articles
headlines
something
that is
unsteady
unstable
when something is praised,
usually by clapping
applauded
High Interest
Words
These are words in the story you may not
have seen before.
fiddling with something in
an attempt to repair it
tinkering
the world’s largest museum
and research complex
This is the
original
Smithsonian
Museum, built in
the early 1850s.
It is sometimes
called “the
castle.”
Smithsonian
thought about something
mused
forces on an aircraft
lift and drag
assembled
unstable
applauded
headlines
hoisting
assured
High Interest
Words
tinkering
Smithsonian
mused
lift and drag
Continue for slides of Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina
You can visit Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, where the
Wright Brothers first achieved
powered flight.
This is the hill where they
first practiced with gliders.
The powered aircraft ran
along rails like these before
taking
flight
Visit the workshop.
Now
Then
Imagine what it would have
been like to be there!