DOL level 4 week 18

• Analogy

1. station : train - wharf : ________

2. : - :

1. doug and maria was fishing and bruce and me was shopping

2. did you knows that their going to spend a week in fort dodge

ship

Pledge

Objectives day 1

Students willRecognize superlativesReview Greek rootsReview antonymsSkills Practice 1, pp. 163-164

Word Structure day 1

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Line 4

Gloomiest heaviest worst fanciest

fastest least swiftest earliest

biography autograph geography photograph

disagreeable delightful perilous safe

Word Structure day 2

• The words on this line are superlative adverbs.• Which three words end the same way?• fastest, swiftest, earliest• Regular superlative adverbs are formed by adding –est to the

original adverb.• Which of these is an irregular form of a superlative adverb?• least• Name the original adverb on which this superlative form is based.• little

fastest least swiftest earliestLine 2

Objectives day 1

Students willLearn vocabulary wordsApply the comprehension strategies Clarifying,

Visualizing, Predicting, and Summarizing.apply the comprehension skills Author’s Point of View

and Fact and Opinionpractice reading with fluency.

Skills Practice 1 pp. 16-168

Building Background

Activate Prior KnowledgeWhat do you already know about the topic of

this selection?What did pioneers experience as they traveled

westward in a wagon train?Have you ever kept a diary? did you keep it for a

long time? Do you still keep it?

Building Background

• Usually a diary is not written to be shared with anyone.

• Sallie Hester kept a diary that gives us valuable information about a trip west that thousands of other pioneers also took.

• Between 1840 – 1866, more than 350,000 people moved to the West in search of farmland and gold.

• The Hesters’ wagon train traveled 2,000 miles along Oregon-California Trail.

• Sallie Hester was fourteen years old when her long journey began.

Vocabulary lesson 4

vast associations

Large, widespreadOrganization of similar interests

tremendous

Very large

provisions

Plural provision; food or necessary items

He viewed a vast landscape. He was a member of three associations.

The wrestler had tremendous arms. He prepared a lot of provisions to take to camp.

Vocabulary lesson 4

engaged detained

Busy withForm of detain, to keep back

permanent

Lasting, not temporary.

He was so engaged in talking, he missed his bus. The police detained the prisoner.

The injury will leave a permanent scar.

Word Structure day 1

• The words in this line are homonyms; that is each word has more than one meaning. Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings.

• The dog will bark when the doorbell rings. verb• The tree bark is very brittle. noun

left bark pen wellLine 1

K W LI know a diary is a personal record of events.Lots of people died on their journey.Guards would sleep in tents. People would sleep in their wagons.

What is a steamboat?Does she make it all the way.I wonder if one of her family members die.What’s cholera?How many people died in total?Do the oxen die.How long does it take them?How many miles did they travel?

Cholera is a bacteria found in water.

Handing Off

• Discuss:• Why Sallie’s family leaves their home in

Indiana in 1849• The types of hardships endured by Sallie and

her family as they travel westward.• How long it takes Sallie’s family to reach

fremont, California.

Purpose

BigIdea

How has America changed over time?What have you learned about a changing America in your reading of “A Covered Wagon Girl: The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850.”

Fluency

6 min. reading solution

Meet the Author

• Sallie Hester pg 316Meet the Editors

• Christy Steele• Ann Hodgson

Supporting the Reading day 2• Visualize the setting, characters, and the

action in the text. Chair of Events in _____

Inquiry Process Day 2

• Getting information from the broadest spectrum of sources available will add depth to the inquiry investigation.

• Remember that classmates can be excellent resources, because they might have found something that is of interest.

Guided PracticeTransparency 21

• Get article from magazine or newspaper

• ApplyComposing – PlanningChoose an article or topic to write about in a

letter to an editor. Write your ideas on your computer.

Writing a Letter to the EditorDay 2 - Drafting Skills Practice 1 page 169

Review your prewriting plans before drafting.

You can organize your drafts in different ways. 1. Present your opinion about an issue and then

give facts, reasons, and examples that support that opinion.

2. Present the problem first, explain why it is a problem, and then offer a solution.

SpellingDay 2

• Sort the words according to how the suffix –est is added to the base word.

Grammar, Usage, and MechanicsComparative Adjectives day 2

Skills Practice 1 page 162

The trip across the meadow was better than the trip across the desert.Better is an irregular comparative adjective that compares two or more

things. Better is the comparative form of good.Some adjectives, such as good, bad, and many, have different comparative

forms.

Base form ComparativesGood, well, better

bad, worse

Many, much more

Little (amount) less

Spellinghottest neatest fullest oldest bravest sweetest

brightest fondest clumsiest dearest sharpest gentlest

smoothest gloomiest gladdest narrowest fittest heaviest

noblest fanciest friendliest scarcest