The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Open Court- Fifth Grade Unit 4- Making a New
Nation Lesson 3

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Illustrated by Jeffrey Thompson

Word Knowledge Selection Vocabulary
A Presentation by Claire Stoermer- Fruitvale
School - Oakland
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Word Knowledge
abcdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyz
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hear here meet meat hour our
two to one won
homophones a word that sounds the same as another
word but has a different meaning
Our youth group will meet in the churchyard in
one hour.
Can you think of other sentences using these
homophones Do you know any other homophones
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eight eighteen eighty
eighty-one
written form of a number
I will become eighteen years old on the same day
my great aunt turns eighty-one.
When do you use hyphens with the written form of
numbers
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children men feet
people
irregular plural nouns
American men women and children all had part in
the American Revolution.
Can you name some more irregular plural nouns
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meanwhile moonlight churchyard
landscape overhead
closed compound words
The moonlight shone through the window on the
landscape painting over the mantle.
Can you list more compound words
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Selection Vocabulary
Use context clues apposition or word structure
to figure out the meanings of these vocabulary
words.
barrack
sombre
sentinel
impetuous
troop
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barrack
Till in the silence around him he hears / The
muster of men at the barrack door / The sound of
arms and the tramp of feet
While in the army my brother lived in a small
but comfortable barrack with some other soldiers.
A building where soldiers live
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sombre
And startled the pigeons from their perch / On
the sombre rafters that round him made / Masses
and moving shapes of shade.
When I heard the sombre music begin I had a
feeling that the movie was about to take a dark
and gloomy turn.
dark or gloomy
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sentinel
Wrapped in silence so deep and still / That he
could hear like a sentinels tread / The
watchful night-wind as it went
The sentinel at the door of the palace would not
let any tourists get near the building.
a guard
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impetuous
Then impetuous stamped the earth / And turned
and tightened his saddle girth
Troys impetuous decision turned out to be the
wrong one and he wished he would have thought
things through a little longer.
Acting or done to quickly without planning or
thought
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troop
He had helped plan the Boston Tea Party and some
think that he participated in it as well he had
spied on British troop movements around Boston
and he had ridden back and forth to Philadelphia
several times carrying news to and from the
Continental Congress
When the disaster struck our town the military
sent a troop of soldiers to help clean up and
maintain order
soldiers
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Vocabulary Quiz
01. __________ a building where soldiers live
02. __________ soldiers
03. __________ acting or done too quickly without
planning
or thought
04. __________ a guard
05. __________ dark or gloomy