Unit 1 Week 1
A Fresh Idea
Essential Question: How do we get the things we need?
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot, Sequence
Standard: RL.5.1-Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Partner Story
One Hen
Vocabulary Words
1) loan
2) profit
3) prosper
4) risk
5) savings
6) scarce
7) wages
A Fresh Idea
Essential Question: How do we get the things we need?
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Strategy: Reread
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot, Sequence
Standard: RL.5.1-Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Partner Story
One Hen
Vocabulary Words
1) loan
2) profit
3) prosper
4) risk
5) savings
6) scarce
7) wages
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues-When you read a sentence and do not know what a word means, look at the other words and phrases in the sentence to give you clues to help you figure out the meaning.
Unit 1 Week 2
Second Day, First Impressions
Unit 1 Week 3
A Life In the Woods
Vocabulary Words
1) debris
2) emphasis
3) encounter
4) generations
5) indicated
6) naturalist
7) sheer
8) spectacular
Unit 1-Week 4
The Boy Who Invented TV
Vocabulary Words
1) breakthrough - an important advance
2) captivated - influenced by charm, art, or skill
3) claimed - claiming something as your own
4) devices - things that are invented or made for a particular purpose
5) enthusiastically - acting in a way that shows great interest or excitement
6) envisioned - imagining good things to happen in the future
7) passionate - having or showing a strong feeling about something
8) patents - papers that give a person or company the right to make, use, or
sell new inventions for a certain number of years
Essential Question: How does technology lead to creative ideas?
Genre: Biography "The Boy Who Invented TV"
2) captivated - influenced by charm, art, or skill
3) claimed - claiming something as your own
4) devices - things that are invented or made for a particular purpose
5) enthusiastically - acting in a way that shows great interest or excitement
6) envisioned - imagining good things to happen in the future
7) passionate - having or showing a strong feeling about something
8) patents - papers that give a person or company the right to make, use, or
sell new inventions for a certain number of years
Essential Question: How does technology lead to creative ideas?
Genre: Biography "The Boy Who Invented TV"
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Unit 1 - Week 5
The Future of Transportation
Vocabulary Words
1) access - getting information from a source such as the internet
2) advance-moving forward or making progress
3) analysis-careful examination or study of something
4) cite-mentioning something as proof or evidence
5) counterpoint-an opposing or disagreeing, point of view
6) data-facts, figures, and other kinds of information
7) drawbacks-problems or disadvantages
8) reasoning-having the ability to think in a logical way
The Future of Transportation
Vocabulary Words
1) access - getting information from a source such as the internet
2) advance-moving forward or making progress
3) analysis-careful examination or study of something
4) cite-mentioning something as proof or evidence
5) counterpoint-an opposing or disagreeing, point of view
6) data-facts, figures, and other kinds of information
7) drawbacks-problems or disadvantages
8) reasoning-having the ability to think in a logical way
Essential Question: What are the positive and negative effects of new technology?
Genre: Persuasive Article
Characteristics of a Persuasive Article:
A) Persuasive articles try to convince readers to support an idea.
B) Authors of persuasive articles usually state their points of view clearly and then support those positions with reasons and evidence.
C) Persuasive articles typically include text features such as headings, charts, and graphs. Headings give readers clues about the content of sections within the article. The information presented in charts and graphs supports the author's position and helps clarify information in the text.
Genre: Persuasive Article
Characteristics of a Persuasive Article:
A) Persuasive articles try to convince readers to support an idea.
B) Authors of persuasive articles usually state their points of view clearly and then support those positions with reasons and evidence.
C) Persuasive articles typically include text features such as headings, charts, and graphs. Headings give readers clues about the content of sections within the article. The information presented in charts and graphs supports the author's position and helps clarify information in the text.
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