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Ten Mile Day Day 3
Ten Mile DayDay 3
Concept talk
What challenges do immigrants encounter?
PARTNER SHARE• How do the immigrants who worked
for the Central Pacific Railroad show allegiance to the company?
• What groups do you feel allegiance to?
• Think about emblems that symbolize America. What emblems are meaningful to you?
Concept Map• Let’s add the words allegiance and
emblems under New Country, because immigrants needed to have a new allegiance to their new country.
• They had to learn to recognize new emblems for their new country.
Amazing Words• sustenance- means food or nourishment,
or source of strength or life
• What type of sustenance do you think the workers will receive throughout the day?
• Teach your partner what this amazing word means.
Amazing Words• adversity- means great difficulty or
hardship• The pioneers faced many adversities
as they crossed the Great Plains.
• Teach your partner what this amazing word means
Vocabulary• Barren- unable to produce fruit• Syn-fruitless
• The farmer’s trees were barren and looked empty in the field.
• Deafening- very loud• Syn-earsplitting
• The jet roared over the house with a deafening roar.
Vocabulary• Lurched- rolled suddenly• Syn-blundered
• The car lurched forward in the garage.
• Previous- occurs before in time• Syn- earlier
• She enjoyed the previous show better.
Vocabulary• Prying- to look at closely• Syn-inquiring
• The girl looked into the closet with prying eyes.
• Surveying- looking carefully at• Syn-appraise
• He was surveying the hill for his cat.
Ten Mile DayWe need our books now.
RetellingYou will retell the part of the story we read yesterday.When you retell you:Include all important detailsMaintain the meaning of the storyKeep the story in a logical orderRetell the story to your partner.
Cause and Effect• An effect is something that happens.
• What question can we ask to identify an effect?
• We should ask “what happened?”
Cause and Effect• A cause is why something happens.
• What question can we ask to identify a cause?
• We can ask “Why did this happen?”
• What other clue words can we look for?
Ten Mile DayWe can begin again on page 154…
Who can summarize in one sentence what happens on page 154?
The crew’s quick work is the effect, but it doesn’t tell us the cause.
Ten Mile Day• Let’s read on to page 156 and 157…• Why did it take the men extra time to
mold and fit every rail after lunch?• Use the story to help describe the
effects of the climb up the Promontory Mountains.
• Infer what the crew’s progress will be in the afternoon
FluencyWith your partner read the story “Coming to the United States.”
Don’t stop until I tell you to.
Read aloud either together or one at a time.
Make sure to use good pacing and correct voice inflection
Ten Mile Day• Let’s read page 158-159…• The main cause in this story was the
bet Crocker made.• What was the overall organization of
the text?• This overall organization of this story
was cause-and-effect
RetellingWith your partner, please retell the story.
Spelling Contractions
This week we will use words that are a shortened form of
two words. They contain apostrophes that show where
letters have been left out.
Spelling• Often misspelled words:• That is• That’s• You are• You’re• Does not• Doesn’t• Could have• Could’ve
Daily Fix itLets take a look at
our Daily Fix it
Conventions
Conventions• Collective nouns are nouns that
represent groups of people.
• Army audience board class company
• Corporation council department firm
• Group jury majority navy school team
WRITINGThis week we are writing an
expository composition. An expository composition is a nonfiction writing that informs readers about a topic.
WRITINGAn expository composition tells
about:Real peopleReal eventsGives readers a description about
somethingGives readers an explanation about
something
WRITINGExpository compositions contain:
An introduction with a topic sentenceBody with main idea and supporting
detailsconclusion
WRITING• Let’s look at page 162-163
• We are going to read a model of an expository composition.
