unit 1: Meeting Challenges
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Q: What kinds of challenges do people face and how do they meet them?
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Red Kayak
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Q: What inspires people to act courageously?
Skills and Strategies Word Analysis: Suffix -ly Vocabulary Skill: Homographs Comprehension Skill: Character/Plot Comprehension Strategy: Predict Related Links (games and stuff): Suffix -ly Quia homographs EZ Homographs Elements of a story review Story Elements Making Predictions |
VocabuLary1. intentionally
2. insistently 3. grumbled 4. compression 5. minute 6. neutral 7. normally 
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Thunder Rose
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Q: How can nature challenge us?
Skills and Strategies Word Analysis: Latin/Greek Roots (srtuct, fig, port) Vocabulary Skill: Multiple-Meaning words Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Clarify Related Links (games and stuff): Greek to Me Quia Cause and Effect Multiple Meaning Word Game Subjects and Predicates |
Vocabulary1. branded
2. constructed 3. daintily 4. devastation 5. lullaby 6. pitch 7. resourceful 8. thieving 9. veins 
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Island of the blue dolphins
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Q: How do people survive in the wilderness?
Skills and Strategies Word Analysis: Compound Words Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms Comprehension Skill: Theme/Setting Comprehension Strategy: Visualize Related Links (games and stuff):Synonym Same Synonym Toast Compound Words Find the Synonym Independent and Dependent Clauses More Clause Practice BioCube Creator Dependent and Independent Clause Intro |
Vocabulary
Spelling List 
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Satchel Paige
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Q: How do we face personal challenges?
Skills and Strategies Word Analysis: Shades of Meaning Vocabulary Skill: Antonyms Comprehension Skill: Sequence Comprehension Strategy: Ask questions Related Links (games and stuff): Antonym Match Antonym Toss Word Frog Sequence Practice Sequence money Biography.com |
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Ten Mile DayQ: What kinds of challenges do immigrants encounter?
Skills and Strategies Word Analysis: Suffix -er Vocabulary Skill: Multiple-Meaning words Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Comprehension Strategy: Summarize Related Links (games and stuff): Multiple Meanings Cause and Effect Graphic Organizers PBS Information |
Vocabulary
deafening prying lurched previous surveying barren Spelling List 
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