Author: Monica Hughes Genre: Science Fiction

1. Author: Monica Hughes Genre: Science Fiction Big Question: How can a focus on the future help us imagine new possibilities?

2. Small GroupTimer

3. Review Games Story Sort VocabularyWords: • Arcade Games • Study Stack • Spelling City: Vocabulary • Spelling City: Spelling Words

4. Spelling WordsWords with the Schwa

6. Big Question: How can a focus on the future help us imagine new possibilities?MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know VocabularyWords • combustion • dingy • negotiate • traversed • waft • waning • birthright • conventional • infinity • settlement • solar energy • vastness

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Compare and Contrast • Ask Questions • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Rhythmic Patterns of Language • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement • Spelling: Words with the Schwa • Future Homes

10. FluencyModel Rhythmic Patterns of Language

11. Fluency: Model Rhythmic Patterns of Language • Listen as I read “Space Settlement.” • As I read, notice how I use rhythmic patterns of language to highlight the poetic elements. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Model Rhythmic Patterns of Language • What did the narrator and his brother like about life on the moon that was different from life on Earth? • What difference gradually made them miss their home planet and want to return to it?

13. Concept Vocabulary • settlement– a place where people have come to live; a colony • solar energy– power derived from the heat of the sun • vastness– a large space • (Next Slide)

14. settlement

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16. Concept Vocabulary (To add information to the graphic organizer, click on end show, type in your new information, and save your changes.)

17. Build Concept Vocabulary settlement, solar energy, vastness Future Homes

18. Compare & Contrast, Ask QuestionsTurn to page 220 - 221.

19. Prior KnowledgeWhat do you know about space travel?

20. Prior Knowledge • This week’s audio explores the world’s largest glass-enclosed environment in Arizona. After you listen, we will discuss what you found out and what surprised you most about this space station prototype.

21. Vocabulary Words

22. Vocabulary Words • combustion– act or process of burning • dingy– lacking brightness or freshness; dirty-looking • negotiate – to talk over and arrange terms

23. Vocabulary Words • traversed– passed across, over, or through • waft– a breath or puff of air, wind, scent • waning – going through its regular reduction in the amount of its visible portion, such as the moon

24. More Words to Know • birthright–right or privilege that someone is entitled to by birth • conventional– of the usual type of design, commonly used or seen • infinity – condition of having no limits; endlessness • (Next Slide)

25. waning

26. GrammarSubject-Verb Agreement

27. our astronauts are americanheros • Our astronauts are American heroes. • govmasterman is desparate to leave the colony • Gov. Materman is desperate to leave the colony.

28. Subject-Verb Agreement • “It just takes a little practice, that’s all.” • The sentence subject it is singular and requires the singular form of the verb take. This is why –s is added to makes takes.

29. Subject-Verb Agreement • The subject and verb in a sentence must agree, or work together. • A singular subject needs a singular verb. • A plural subject needs a plural verb.

30. Subject-Verb Agreement • Use the following rules for verbs that tell about the present time. • If the subject is a singular noun or he, she, or it, add –s or –esto most verbs. • The planet glows. The scientist teaches school. He works hard.

31. Subject-Verb Agreement • If the subject is compound, a plural noun, or I, you, we, or they, do not add –s or –esto the verb. • The planets glow. The scientist and the assistant teach school. They work hard.

32. Subject-Verb Agreement • For the verb be, use am and is to agree with singular subjects and are to agree with plural subjects. • I am a scientist. My father is on the moon. • The planets are visible. We are on Earth.

33. Subject-Verb Agreement • A collective noun names a group, such as family, team, and class. A collective noun is singular if it refers to a group acting as one: • The class is waiting for takeoff.

34. Subject-Verb Agreement • A collective noun is plural if it refers to members of the group acting individually: • The class are choosing their seats.

35. Subject-Verb AgreementDoes the subject and verb agree in each sentence? • A shaft of light blinds me. • yes • Kepler write a letter to Ann every week. • no, writes

36. Subject-Verb AgreementDoes the subject and verb agree in each sentence? • Supplies costs the settlers more on the moon. • no, cost • The group understands how precious water is. • yes

37. Subject-Verb AgreementDoes the subject and verb agree in each sentence? • The ferry move slowly from its loading dock. • no, moves

38. Subject-Verb AgreementChoose the verb that agrees with the subject. • The shuttle (orbit, orbits) across North America. • orbits • Both astronomers (search, searches) for the distant planet. • search

39. Subject-Verb AgreementChoose the verb that agrees with the subject. • Photographs of Earth (hangs, hang) in the Control Center. • hang • Sunlight (pierce, pierces) the black shadows. • pierces

40. Subject-Verb AgreementChoose the verb that agrees with the subject. • The kids on the moon (were, was) having a party. • were • Mr. Masterman (navigate, navigates) through the crowd of onlookers. • navigates

41. Subject-Verb AgreementChoose the verb that agrees with the subject. • He (feel, feels) the need to leave the moon. • feels • The scientists (study, studies) black holes and other mysteries of space. • study

42. Subject-Verb AgreementChoose the verb that agrees with the subject. • Terri and Joe (work, works) on their astronomy project. • work • She (buys, buy) every book she can find about the moon. • buys

43. Spelling WordsWords with the Schwa

45. Tuesday

46. Today we will learn about: • Context Clues • Compare and Contrast • Ask Questions • Vocabulary • Fluency: Choral Reading • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement • Spelling: Words with the Schwa • Science: First Men on the Moon • The “Seas” of the Moon • The Moon • Future Homes

47. Vocabulary Strategy: Context CluesPages 222 - 223.

48. Good-bye to the MoonPages 224 - 233.

49. FluencyChoral Reading

50. Fluency: Choral Reading • Turn to page 231, paragraphs 3 and 8. • As I read, notice the rich, poetic language and the use of imagery. • We will practice as a class doing three choral readings of these paragraphs.