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Unit 3, Week 2 My Brother Martin

Unit 3, Week 2 My Brother Martin. O’Neal Elementary 4 th Grade. Vocabulary. unfair: not fair or just unsuspecting: trusting ancestors: people in the past from whom one comes injustice: unfairness avoided: stayed away from

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Unit 3, Week 2 My Brother Martin

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  1. Unit 3, Week 2My Brother Martin O’Neal Elementary 4th Grade

  2. Vocabulary • unfair: not fair or just • unsuspecting: trusting • ancestors: people in the past from whom one comes • injustice: unfairness • avoided: stayed away from • segregation: the practice of setting one racial group apart from another • numerous: forming a large number; many Vocabulary Activity Round One Vocabulary Activity Round Two

  3. VocabularyWords in Context You can learn from your _____. Your grandfather or grandmother may remember a time in America when African Americans weren’t allowed to sit in the same parts of a bus as white people. It was a time of _____, when laws weren’t always fair. It wasn’t that way in every place in America. In many areas, children of all races played together, unaware of _____. Not everyone agreed with the way things were done.

  4. VocabularyStory Words • waning: becoming smaller or fewer in number • streetcar: a vehicle that holds many passengers and runs on rails through city streets • indignity: something that insults a person’s self-respect • bigotry: hatred or intolerance toward an entire group of people; prejudice

  5. Vocabulary/ComprehensionPrefixes • A prefix is added to the beginning of a base word or root. • Prefixes change the meaning of the words to which they are attached. un means “not” What do you think unfair means? Not every word that begins with un- is a base with a prefix, for example , union and universe. Race to Ramses!

  6. PhonicsDecode Words with Silent Letters Some words have silent consonants, or letters that are not pronounced. knife write If you say the word knife. You hear the beginning sound is /n/. The letter k is silent. In write, the beginning sound is /r/. The w is silent. The Amazing Silent Letters

  7. FluencyRepeated Reading: Punctuation “Why do white people treat colored people so mean?” M.L. asked Mother Dear afterward. And with me and M.L. and A.D. standing in front of her trying our best to understand. Mother Dear gave the reason behind it all. Her words explained the streetcars our family avoided and the WHITES ONLY sign that kept us off the elevator at City Hall. Her words told why there were parks and museums that black people could not visit and why some restaurants refused to serve us and why hotels wouldn’t give us rooms and why theaters would only allow us to watch their picture shows from the balcony. But her words also gave us hope.

  8. ComprehensionMake Inferences • Make Inferences to understand things the author does not directly state in the story. • To make inferences, readers can use information from the text, illustrations, and things they already know to help them make connections. Inferences about Plot Practice Inferences

  9. ComprehensionLetters • Letters are written messages that people send to each other. • Letters can be hand written or typed. • Letters may appear in different forms, such as a friendly letter or a business letter.

  10. ComprehensionSalutation and Body • A salutation is the line in the letter in which the writer greets the person to whom she or he is writing. • A salutation usually uses the word Dear to greet the person. • The body of a letter is the main part of the letter containing the message. • The body is divided into one or more paragraphs.

  11. Review Reading Strategies • In what ways did evaluating the author’s purpose help you to understand the biography? • Do you understand the strategy of visualizing events as you read? When might you use this strategy again? • What strategies did you use when you came to difficult words?

  12. Reflection: Day 1

  13. Reflection: Day 2

  14. Reflection: Day 3

  15. Reflection: Day 4

  16. Reflection: Day 5

  17. Coming Soon!!!

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