Marven of the Great North Woods

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Marven of the Great North Woods
Compiled by Terry Sams PES Latonia Wolfe DES

• Author Kathryn Lasky
• Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

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Study Skills

• Genre Biography
• Comprehension Skill Fact and Opinion
• Comprehension Strategy Monitor and Fix up
• Comprehension Review Skill
• Main Idea
• Vocabulary Dictionary/Glossary

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Genre Biography

• A biography is a story of a real persons life
  written by another person.
• It is written in the third-person. The author
  writes He was free! He found a job with a
  printer.
• A biography can cover a persons whole life or
  part of it.
• An autobiography is also a story of a real
  persons life but it is written by the person.

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Summary

• Marven was only ten years old
• when his great-aunt died of influenza. To
  protect him from the disease his family sent him
  far away from the city up to the Great North
  Woods. There he kept the books at a logging
  camp. Marven was scared of the big grouchy
  lumberjacks especially Jean
• Louis a jack whose feet were as big
• as skillets. But he was even more
  scared when he skied into the woods-and
  
• thought he saw a grizzly bear.

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Comprehension Skill Main Idea

• Main idea is an important point about the storys
  topic
• Supporting details give more information about a
  main idea.

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Comprehension Review Skill Fact and Opinion

• A statement of a fact can be proved true or false
  by looking in a reference book asking an expert
  or using your own knowledge and experience.
• A statement of opinion cannot be proved true or
  false. It is a belief or judgment.
• An opinion often contains words such as best
  should or beautiful. It may begin with words In
  my opinion or I believe.

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Research/Study Skill Graphs

• A graph shows data or information in visual
  form. The title and labels tell what information
  the graph shows and compares.
• A bar graph uses vertical or horizontal bars to
  compare data.
• A circle graph is a circle that shows how a whole
  is divided into parts.

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Research/Study Skill Graphs

• A line graph contains lines that connect a series
  of points. Line graphs often show changes over
  time.
• A picture graph or pictograph uses pictures to
  represent amounts.
• Lets use practice book pages 89/90 to better
  understand graphs.

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Question of the Week

• What is the value of a job well done

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Vocabulary Skill Dictionary/Glossary

• Some words have more than one meaning.
• Sometimes readers need to check a dictionary or
  glossary to find the meaning that makes sense for
  the sentence.

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Lets Practice Dictionary/Glossary Skills te231
Please describe the steps you use to find the
meaning of a word in a dictionary. Remember that
some words have multiple meanings and you must
choose the meaning that makes sense for the
context in which the word appears. Use a
dictionary to determine the meaning for drifting
as it is used on page 213.
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Day 2 - Question of the Day

• What were working conditions like for Marven at
  the logging camp

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Comprehension Strategy Practice Monitor and Fix
up

• If you dont understand or remember what you have
  read you may need to reread part of the
  selection more carefully or scan it to locate
  specific information.
• You may need to look for judgment words to help
  better identify facts and opinion.
• Lets practice by rereading p. 227 paragraph 1
  and distinguish between statements of fact and
  opinion.

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Vocabulary - Say It

• cord
• dismay
• grizzly (bear)

• immense
• payroll

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More Words to Know

• lumberjack
• silhouettes

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Day 3 - Question of the Day

• How do Marven and the lumberjacks make sure their
  jobs are well done

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Day 4 - Question of the Day

• How can you use e-mail to get information for
  school projects

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Weekly Fluency Check -Volume of Voice TE 239a

• You will need to match your voice volume to the
  size of the room or group you are reading to.
• Go to page 231 and lets read paragraphs 1-3. Be
  sure to raise and lower your voice when you see
  clue words such as whispered and gasped.

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Review Pages 216 -224

• Which job do you think would be more difficult
  for a ten-year old keeping a payroll or waking
  the lumberjacks Explain
• What causes Jean Louis to open one eye
• What facts have you learned about lumberjacks and
  Marvens work in the lumber camp

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Review Pages 226-233
1. Describe the steps Marven took to organize the
chits What are chits 2. If Marven gave you
his word that he would do something would you
trust him Why or Why not 3. How is this
selection like other biographies you have read
How is it different
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More Review Pages 226-233
4. Marvin has a problem about what to eat at
breakfast. (p. 224) What would you do to
understand why he has this problem 5. The author
describes the lumberjacks as biggest and
wildest (p. 218). What else does she tell you
about them to prove her point.
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Fun Stuff

• More on Marven of the Great North Woods
• Web Quest
• Spelling Hangman
• Spelling Words in ABC Order
• On Line Reading Test
• On Line Spelling Test

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Cord
A unit of measurement for measuring wood.
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payroll

• List of persons to be paid and the amount that
  each one is to receive.

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dismay

• Sudden helpless fear of what is about to happen
  or what has happened.

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grizzly (bear)

• A large gray or brownish bear of western North
  America.

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immense

• Very large huge vast

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Lumberjack

• Person whose work is cutting down trees and
  sending the logs to the sawmill.

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silhouettes

• Dark images outlines against a lighter
  background.

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• The lumberjack cut a cord of wood.

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The lumberjack cut a cord of wood.
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• A good boss will never forget the payroll for
  his/her employees.

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• A good boss will never forget the payroll for
  his/her employees.

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• When I saw the car accident I was in great dismay
  .

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• When I saw the car accident I was in great dismay.

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The teacher was in immense pain when he hit his
foot.
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The teacher was in immense pain when he hit his
foot.
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The grizzly bear scared the campers in the
woods.
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The grizzly bear scared the campers in the woods.
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The lumberjack wanted to cut down the trees.
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The lumberjack wanted to cut down the trees.
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The silhouettes of the girls profiles looked
beautiful against the dark background.
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The silhouettes of the girls profiles looked
beautiful against the dark background.
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Describe a Job TE 239gUse with Writing
Transparency 9a

• Lets look at an example of a job description.
• What writing traits do you see
• What important details do you see
• What do you notice about each separate task
• What time order words do you see

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Writing Assignment te239g

• After looking at the job description for Taking
  Care of Fifi transparency lets write our own
  job description.
• Remember the writer of a job description must
  make sure to tell facts and not to express
  opinions.

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This Weeks Word Wall Words
Click and type your own words for this week
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Spelling WordsDigraphs ng nk ph wh

• among
• think
• blank
• graph
• young
• Thanksgiving

• wheel
• nephew
• belong
• whiskers
• whisper

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Digraphs ng nk ph wh

• elephant
• white
• shrink
• wharf
• trunk

• strong
• blink
• chunk
• skunk

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CHALLENGE

• strengthen
• bankrupt
• phantom
• whimsical
• whatever

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Lets review our Spelling words. Watch
carefully because they will flash on the screen
for just a moment. We can clap as we spell the
word or we might just practice reading the words.
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Thanksgiving
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among
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think
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blank
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graph
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young
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wheel
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nephew
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belong
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whiskers
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whisper
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elephant
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white
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shrink
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wharf
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trunk
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strong
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blink
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chunk
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skunk
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GREAT JOBLumberjacks!!!