The Voyage of the Mayflower

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The Voyage of the Mayflower
Tami Isgett Fontana, California
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Genre Expository Text

• Purpose is to share information or to persuade
  the reader to think or act in a certain way
• Facts about real people or events are often
  included
• Information is presented in a straightforward way
• Events are presented in sequence
• Writing may be organized by topics
• Diagrams, photographs, maps, or other
  illustrations may be included to help the reader
  understand the subject better

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• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Are you familiar with the story of the Mayflower?
• In Early America we learned the reasons that
  people first came to America. What are they?

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Many of the Pilgrims suffered discomfort on the
ship to America. What are some of those?

• seasickness
• unable to shower or bathe
• no toilets
• no fresh food

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capsizing use context clues

• A sailing ship must lower all of its sails and
  drift with the wind to avoid capsizing or
  breaking apart.
• To keep a canoe from capsizing do not stand up in
  it.
• capsizing overturning in the water

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din use context clues

• Suddenly, above the din of the storm, they heard
  the noise of splitting timber.
• The din of a blaring siren woke me from a sound
  sleep.
• din loud and unpleasant noise that lasts for a
  while

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provisions use context clues
use word structure

• The sixty-seven Strangers on the Mayflower made
  room or thirty-five of the Saints from the
  Speedwell, along with their belongings and
  provisions.
• I carried my food, sleeping bag, and other
  provisions in my backpack.
• provisions supplies of food or necessary tools
  (p494)

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muskets use context clues

• He then fired a couple of muskets and a fowling
  piece near an open half-full barrel of gunpowder.
• The pilgrims used muskets to shoot animals for
  food.
• muskets old-fashioned guns used before modern
  rifles were invented (p497)

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prevailing use context clues

• With all the prevailing winds and currents, it
  made the return trip in only thirty-one days.
• The latest poll shows the prevailing opinion is
  that children watch too much television.
• prevailing most frequent occurring most often
  (p497)

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What do all these words have in common?safely
suddenly carefully freshly
They are all adverbs ending in ly.Reminder
adverbs describe a verb, an adjective, or another
adverb. What other adverbs do you know?
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What do the following words have in common?

• position
• additional
• option
• caution
• What other words do we know that have the
  spelling pattern tion?

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What do these words have in common?

• sighting
• spy
• terrified
• iron
• They all have the long i sound. Identify the
  spelling sound in each word.

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What do the following words have in common?

• capsizing
• howling
• sinking
• planking
• They all contain the ing ending. In words that
  end in silent e remember to drop the e and then
  add ing.
• Name some other words that follow this rule.

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Identify the subject in the following sentence.

• The passengers and crew could reach land safely.
• passengers and crew
• when there are 2 or more subjects in a sentence
  joined by a conjunction it is called a compound
  subject

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Identify the 2 plural nouns in the following
sentence

• The businessmen recruited additional volunteers
  in London.
• businessmen and volunteers
• businessmen is an irregular plural and volunteers
  is a regular plural

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Adults tried to comfort the terrified children.

• Identify the root words of tried and terrified.
• Name the rule for adding the ed suffix

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