Amazing Alice from Coast to Coast with Alice

Genre: Historical FictionAuthor’s Purpose: Entertain

Skill: Summarizing

By: Patricia Rusch HyattCompiled by Terry Sams, Piedmont

SummarySummary

Hermine Jahns, a 15-year-old girl, has the Hermine Jahns, a 15-year-old girl, has the chance of a lifetime!  It's 1909, and she's chance of a lifetime!  It's 1909, and she's going cross-country by car with Alice going cross-country by car with Alice Ramsey and Alice's sisters-in-law.  Alice Ramsey and Alice's sisters-in-law.  Alice Ramsey is the first woman to ever try such a Ramsey is the first woman to ever try such a feat.  The women have many adventures.  feat.  The women have many adventures.  Without reliable road maps, it's hard to find Without reliable road maps, it's hard to find their way.  When a bolt falls out, Alice their way.  When a bolt falls out, Alice Ramsey repairs the car with baling wire and Ramsey repairs the car with baling wire and hairpins.  They almost get swamped by flash hairpins.  They almost get swamped by flash floods in Utah.  Despite these setbacks, they floods in Utah.  Despite these setbacks, they make it to San Francisco in a record-make it to San Francisco in a record-breaking 59 days!  breaking 59 days!  

   

Genre: Genre: Historical FictionHistorical Fiction Historical FictionHistorical Fiction is fiction that

takes place in the past. The author makes up the

characters and events, but the characters and events seem real.

The setting is important, and the problems and events are based on things that really did or could have happened during the time period.

Comprehension Skill: Comprehension Skill: SummarizingSummarizing

●A summary give the main ideas of an article, or it tells what happened in a story.

●A summary is short , and it does NOT include unimportant details.

●A summary will help you recall and organize information.

●What is a Summary?

What are the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing?

Comprehension Skill Review –Comprehension Skill Review –Graphic Sources Graphic Sources

Authors sometimes include Authors sometimes include graphic sources to explain the graphic sources to explain the information included in their information included in their writing. writing.

Examples of graphic sources Examples of graphic sources can be maps, photographs, and can be maps, photographs, and captions for the photographs. captions for the photographs.

What are some of the graphic What are some of the graphic sources in the story of Alice?sources in the story of Alice?

Practice –Practice –Graphic Sources Graphic Sources

SourceSource What They Show or TellWhat They Show or Tell

mapsmaps

photographsphotographs

captionscaptions

where they are in each journal entry, large map show travel route

what people and place look like

information about photographs

Vocabulary Skill Review :Vocabulary Skill Review :SynonymsSynonyms

Words with similar meanings are Words with similar meanings are called called synonymssynonyms..

You can often figure out the You can often figure out the meaning of an unknown word by meaning of an unknown word by finding a synonym in the words finding a synonym in the words or sentences around it.or sentences around it.

Click Here to practice synonyms

Weekly Fluency Check -Weekly Fluency Check -Read with Appropriate PhrasingRead with Appropriate Phrasing

● Students should read with appropriate Students should read with appropriate phrasing.phrasing.

● Phrasing makes the reading in Alice more Phrasing makes the reading in Alice more conversational.conversational.

● Journals often use interjects, for example, Journals often use interjects, for example, “Great Golliwogs!” This makes the writing “Great Golliwogs!” This makes the writing more like personal conversation rather than a more like personal conversation rather than a formal writing. formal writing.

● Go to pages 471 - 473, beginning with Go to pages 471 - 473, beginning with “August 6, 1909.”“August 6, 1909.”

Figurative Language – Figurative Language – Simile and MetaphorSimile and Metaphor

Figurative language is a language that goes beyond the ordinary meanings of words. Similes and metaphors help make the images in the story richer and clearer.

A simile uses words like or as to compare two things that are not alike. Maggie hopped over the railroad ties like a

jackrabbit. A metaphor also compares two things that are

not alike but it does not use any words of comparison.

This Iowa is a bathtub of mud.

Review Pages 458-4651. What is the setting of the story?2. The story is told by whom?3. Who travels on the cross-

country trip?4. How is Alice different from other

women?5. What problems do the women

have with the Blue Book?

Review Pages 466-474

1. What is comical about the women having to get a permit to cross the bridge?

2. Summarize the events as they happened in Wyoming.

3. How does Alice fix the tie rod when it breaks? What does this say about Alice’s character?

SummarySummaryAmazing AliceAmazing Alice

Write a summary of this story. Include each Write a summary of this story. Include each of the following points.of the following points.

SettingSetting Characters – include how Alice is different Characters – include how Alice is different

from other womenfrom other women What were the women trying to do?What were the women trying to do? Problems with the Blue BookProblems with the Blue Book Were they successful?Were they successful? End with your opinion of what these End with your opinion of what these

women did and if you think you could have women did and if you think you could have done the same thing. done the same thing.

Fun Stuff to DoFun Stuff to Do ABC order the spelling wordsABC order the spelling words Vocabulary quizVocabulary quiz Spelling Hangman Spelling Hangman Type in a word to find rhymes, synonyms, Type in a word to find rhymes, synonyms,

definitions, and more: definitions, and more: Practice Same or differencePractice Same or difference Synonym Matchup Synonym Matchup Synonym TestSynonym Test History of the First CarHistory of the First Car Stagecoaches Stagecoaches Reading TestReading Test

Download Shockwave to play same or differenceDownload Shockwave to play same or difference

Say It!blacksmith

crankdependable

forgeravines

telegraph

More Words to Know

chaperonescontraptions

odometertiller

trestle

blacksmithblacksmith

an ironworkeran ironworker

crankcrank

a part of a machine a part of a machine that sets it in motion that sets it in motion (handle on a (handle on a machine)machine)

trestletrestlea framework a framework used as a used as a bridge to bridge to support support railroad tracks railroad tracks or a roador a road

dependabledependable

reliable; able to reliable; able to be counted onbe counted on

forgeforge

a blacksmith's shopa blacksmith's shop

ravinesravines

deep, deep,

narrownarrow valleys valleys

telegraphtelegraph

A device A device used to send used to send coded coded messages messages over wiresover wires

chaperoneschaperones

people people responsible for responsible for other people's other people's behaviorbehavior

contraptionscontraptions

devices or devices or gadgetsgadgets

odometerodometer

a gauge used to a gauge used to measure distance measure distance traveledtraveled

tillertiller

a handle a handle used to steer used to steer a rudder a rudder

Hayden sent the message over the telegraph.

Hayden sent the message over the telegraph.

The trestle on the bridge was damaged when the train hit.

The trestle on the bridge was damaged when the train hit.

The ladies when along to act as chaperones.

The ladies when along to act as chaperones.

Marty was busy at work in the forge making a new crank for her car.

Marty was busy at work in the forge making a new crank for her car.

The new blacksmith will work in our shop.

The new blacksmith will work in our shop.

That was quite a contraption they used to start the engine of the car.

That was quite a contraption they used to start the engine of the car.

The man anxiously turned the crank to get the plane started.

The man anxiously turned the crank to get the plane started.

The car used a handle called a tiller as a steering wheel.

The car used a handle called a tiller as a steering wheel.

I will use Tammy as my babysitter because she is very reliable.

I will use Tammy as my babysitter because she is very dependable.

The women traveled across the treacherous landscape that

included ravines.

The women traveled across the treacherous landscape that

included ravines.

Ben Franklin invented the odometer to tell how far something has traveled.

Ben Franklin invented the odometer to tell how far something has traveled.

My uncle, Jim, works as a blacksmith at Dollywood.

My uncle, Jim, works as a blacksmith at Dollywood.

Spelling Words – Prefixes dis-, in-, mis-, re-

dislikedisappeardistrustdishonestdisagree

incompleteindependentincorrectinvisibleinactive

Spelling Words Prefixes dis-, in-, mis-, re-

misplacemisspellmisledmistreatmisbehave

rebuildreusereactreplacerecall

Word Wall WordsWord Wall Words

Click and add your word wall words.Click and add your word wall words.

Let’s review our spelling words.

Watch carefully because they will flash on the

screen for just a moment. We will clap as we spell

the word..

recall

replace

react

reuse

rebuild

misbehave

mistreat

misled

misspell

misplace

inactive

invisible

incorrect

independent

incomplete

disagree

dishonest

distrust

disappear

dislike

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