Unit 5: Adventure

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Unit Question:
What makes an adventure?

Smoke jumpers: Life Fighting Fires
By:        (  )

Question of the Week:
How can we prepare for emergencies?

Skills and Strategies

Word Analysis: French word origins

Vocabulary Skills:  Use homographs to determine word meanings.

Comprehension Skill:  Categorize and Classify

Comprehension Strategy:  Ask Questions

Related Links:
Homographs
Categorize and Classify
Adjective Game
Parts of a Book Game
EZ Homograph Practice

Vocabulary

curiosity
glorious
granite
ruins
terraced
thickets
torrent

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Cliff Hanger
By:     (Realistic Fiction)

Question of the Week:
What does it take to be a hero?

Skills and Strategies

Summary: When Axel’s dog, Grits, follows some
hikers up a mountain but doesn’t come down with them, Axel and his dad set out to rescue Grits. But a storm is coming quickly, and they don’t have much time. With the storm only a half-mile away, Axel begins climbing Cathedral Wall to get his dog. It takes courage and concentration, but he gets to the top of Monkey Ledge safely. The next challenge is in climbing down. Axel’s
father, Dag, watches anxiously as Axel makes his heroic descent.

Word Analysis: Related Words

Vocabulary Skills:  Unfamiliar Words

Comprehension Skill: Settling and Plot

Comprehension Strategy:  Story Structure

Related Links:
Story Structure of Realistic Fiction
Literary Elements
Elements of a Story
Related Words Hangman
Grammar Ninja Parts of Speech
Adverbs Game
Adverb Millionaire

Vocabulary

  • coil
  • descent
  • foresaw
  • rappel
  • ridge
  • shaft
  • trekked
  • void

Spelling

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Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Pichu
By:    (Narrative Nonfiction)

Question of the Week:
What surprises can happen on an exhibition?

Skills and Strategies

Summary: Professor Hiram Bingham goes on a journey to Peru to find the lost city of Vilcapampa. With the help of a farmer named Arteaga and a Quechua boy, Bingham finds something unexpected—the beautiful and mysterious city of Machu Picchu sitting among the clouds.

Word Analysis: Word Origins

Vocabulary Skills:  Greek and Latin Roots

Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast

Comprehension Strategy:  Visualize and Sequence
Related Links:
Compare and Contrast
Word Origins Root Words
Comparative Adjectives
Comparative and Superlative
Contrasting Characters

Vocabulary

curiosity
glorious
granite
ruins
terraced
thickets
torrent

Spelling

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