Author: Raymond Bial Genre: Expository Nonfiction

1. Author: Raymond Bial Genre: Expository Nonfiction Big Question: What adventures helped drive westward expansion?

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

4. SpellingWordsRelated Words

6. Big Question: What adventures helped drive westward expansion?MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday

7. Vocabulary Words More Words to Know Vocabulary Words • economic • independence • overrun • scrawled • vacant • mercantile • prosperity • tumbledown • claim • pay dirt • sluice

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Generalize • Graphic Organizers • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Tone of Voice • Grammar: Adverbs • Spelling: Related Words • California Gold Rush

10. FluencyTone of Voice

11. Fluency: Tone of Voice • Listen as I read “By the Great Horn Spoon.” • As I read, notice how I use my tone of voice to model reading with expression. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Tone of Voice • Make a generalization about the kind of day Jack and Praiseworthy had. • Why do you think Jack is excited that Praiseworthy called him Jack?

13. Concept Vocabulary • claim– a piece of public land a settler or prospector marks out for possession • pay dirt– earth, rock, etc., containing enough metal to be worth mining

14. Concept Vocabulary • sluice– a long, sloping trough through which water flows, used to wash gold from sand, dirt, or gravel • (Next Slide)

15. sluice

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

17. Build Concept Vocabulary claim, pay dirt, sluice California Gold Rush

18. Generalize, Graphic OrganizersTurn to Page 604 - 605.

19. Prior KnowledgeCompare things you know about ghost towns with modern-day towns..

20. Prior Knowledge • This week’s audio explores the topic of ghost towns. After we listen, we will discuss key events and how settlements become ghost towns.

21. VocabularyWords

22. Vocabulary Words • economic– of or about the management of the income, supplies, and expenses of a household, government, etc. • independence – freedom from the control, influence, support, or help of others

23. Vocabulary Words • overrun– to spread over • scrawled – written or drawn poorly or carelessly • vacant – not occupied

24. More Words to Know • mercantile– of merchant or trade; commercial • prosperity– prosperous condition; good fortune; success • tumbledown– ready to fall down; not in good condition; dilapidated • (next slide)

25. tumbledown

26. Grammar Adverbs

27. settlers cheerful began their adventure feeling hopful • Settlers cheerfully began their adventure feeling hopeful. • there journey was slow hard, and dangerous • Their journey was slow, hard, and dangerous.

28. Adverbs • Storekeepers and farmers occasionally brought their wives and children with them. Most towns actively sought women. • The underlined words are adverbs. Occasionally tells when storekeepers and farmers brought families, and actively tells how the towns sought women.

29. Adverbs • An adverbtells more about verbs. They explain how, when, or where actions happen. Many adverbs that tell how end in –ly. Adverbs can appear before or after the verbs they describe.

30. Adverbs • How: A tumbleweed rolled quickly down Main Street. A dog waited patiently. • When: Travelers seldom stopped. Yesterday the stage stopped. • Where: Settlers moved westward. They built a town here.

31. Adverbs • Some adverbs tell more about an adjective or another adverb: • Mining towns sprang up very quickly. They were terribly noisy.

32. Adverbs • Comparative adverbs compare two actions. Add –erto form a comparative adverb. • Superlative adverbs compare three or more actions. Add –estto form a superlative adverb. • If an adverb ends in –ly, use more or most instead of –eror –est.

33. Adverbs • Comparative Adverb: The miners worked harder than the storekeepers. • Superlative Adverb: The farmers worked hardest of all. They depended most completely on the land and weather.

34. Adverbs • The adverbs well and badly use special forms to show comparison. • well, better, best • badly, worse, worst

35. AdverbsFind the adverb or adverbs in each sentence.Tell which word or words that each adverb tells more about. • The broken windmill turned lazily in the wind. • lazily (turned) • Our footsteps echoed eerily in the empty buildings. • eerily (echoed)

36. AdverbsFind the adverb or adverbs in each sentence.Tell which word or words that each adverb tells more about. • Today we are investigating a ghost town. • Today (are investigating) • It once boomed with voices and busy lives. • once (boomed)

37. AdverbsFind the adverb or adverbs in each sentence.Tell which word or words that each adverb tells more about. • Cowboys shouted loudly, and steers milled restlessly in pens. • loudly (shouted), restlessly (milled)

38. AdverbsFind the correct adverb to complete each sentence. • When gold was discovered, the stream of settlers flowed (more quickly, most quickly) than before. • more quickly

39. AdverbsFind the correct adverb to complete each sentence. • The California Gold Rush of 1849 increased the population (greatly, more greatly). • greatly • Many thousands of “’49ers” raced (eager, eagerly) to California. • eagerly

40. AdverbsFind the correct adverb to complete each sentence. • A few miners became (incredible, incredibly) wealthy. • incredibly • They performed (better, more better) than most gold seekers. • better

41. SpellingWordsRelated Words

43. Tuesday

44. Today we will learn about: • Prefixes • Generalize • Graphic Sources • Vocabulary • Fluency: Choral Reading • Grammar: Adverbs • Spelling: Related Words • Social Studies: Gold Rush • California Gold Rush

45. Vocabulary Strategy: Prefixes Turn to Page 606 - 607.

46. Ghost Towns of the American West Turn to Page 608 - 615.

47. FluencyChoral Reading

48. Fluency: Choral Reading • Turn to page 611, first paragraph. • As I read, notice how my voice changes at questions and dashes. • We will practice as a class doing three choral readings.

49. Grammar Adverbs

50. settlers began their trip joyfuly but ended it more solemn • Settlers began their trip joyfully but ended it more solemnly. • today their courage can still enspir we americans • Today their courage can still inspire us Americans.