774 bnmsdmsr “Producers and Consumers” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784 from Harcourt Science Summarize • Review how to summarize the most important ideas in a text as you read. Monitor Comprehension: Reread • Review how to monitor comprehension by rereading text you do not understand. “Discovering the Atocha” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776 illustrated by Dave Stevenson Build Fluency • Read with accuracy. • Read with expression. Build Vocabulary • Read, write, and learn the meanings of new words. Review Vocabulary • Read theme Vocabulary Words in a different context. INFORMATIONAL NARRATIVE SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
Narrator 1: Our story now moves forward five years, to 1980. Mel and his crew have spent those years searching the Marquesas Keys.
Narrator 2: Juan, Dolores, Minna, Kane, and Duncan are scuba diving. Mel and Taffi are aboard Mel’s ship, the Dauntless, waiting for them to surface. When the divers come out of the water, they look frustrated.
Dolores: The water is really murky. Kane: I keep thinking I’m seeing shapes, but they’re just illusions from
all the silt floating around. Duncan: My metal detector senses something in the sand. Minna: The water is so cloudy that we can’t discern anything!Narrator 1: Mel lugs a box to the edge of the boat. A long hose
is attached to it.Mel: This should help with the silt.Duncan: And just what is that?Dolores: That’s the contraption Mel’s been perfecting for
years now.Narrator 2: Duncan points at the box in Mel’s hand, a dubious
look on his face.Duncan: It looks like a mailbox with a hose attached. Mel: It should help us see better underwater. Juan: Tell him how it works, Mel.Mel: A motor inside pumps clear water down to the part
of the ocean floor we’re searching. Duncan: Let’s give it a try. Anything will help at this
Juan: You were right, Minna! That isn’t part of the reef . . . it’s a block of solid gold!
Kane: And the sand dune we were standing on . . . it’s not a dune!
Minna: We must have been standing on the wreck of the Atocha!
Juan: We’ve got to tell Mel right away!Narrator 2: Meanwhile, back in his
office, Mel sits at his desk, studying a map of the Keys. Suddenly, his two-way radio crackles to life.
Kane: Hello, Unit 1, this is Unit 11. Dad, are you there?
Mel: Go ahead, Kane. Kane: Put away the charts. We’ve got the
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Narrator 1: It is now 1985. Juan, Kane, and Minna continue to make dives. Mel works from their home base, recording the crew’s findings. Dolores, Taffi, and Duncan are with him.
Narrator 2: When Juan is below, he stops abruptly. He signals with his hands to the other divers, pointing above them. The others nod their heads, and they all swim up to the surface.
Juan: Something went wrong with my metal detector. It won’t stop beeping. I was scanning the coral reef, and the machine began beeping like crazy.
Minna: We should go down and scrutinize that reef again.
Juan: I think you’re right. Let’s look again.
Narrator 1: Minna, Kane, and Juan dive down to the coral reef. They see a square object. Then the metal detector begins beeping.
Mother Lode!Mel: The whole wreck? Where? Where are
you?Narrator 2: Dolores, Taffi, and Duncan
rush into the office.Dolores: Mel, what’s happened? Is
something wrong?Mel: They found the wreck!Taffi: Where are they, Dad?Mel: They’re aboard the Dauntless.Dolores: This is great! Mel, your dream
has come true! You’ve overcome all obstacles.
Mel: We’ve all been after this goal for a long time.
Duncan: Yes, and we’ve had many memorable adventures!
Taffi: We certainly have! Mel: You all know, though, that the work
is just beginning.Duncan: You’re right. There’s so much
to learn from everything that’s down there.
Dolores: The artifacts will have to be restored and preserved, too. We have to share all of this with the world.
Narrator 1: The lengthy search was over, but the journey of discovery was just beginning. To this day, artifacts and treasures from the Atocha are being recovered, analyzed, and preserved.
