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Unit 2, Week 2My Diary from Here to There

• ONeal Elementary
• 4th Grade

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Vocabulary

• overheard- heard something when you were not
  supposed to
• border- a line where one country ends and another
  begins
• opportunities- good chances favorable times
• citizen- a person who was born in, or chooses to
  be a member of, a country
• unions- groups of workers joined together to
  protect their interests
• strikes- work stoppages to fight together for
  better work conditions
• boycotts- agreement to join with others in
  refusing to deal with a person, nation, or
  business
• Vocabulary Game

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Words in Contextborder boycotts citizens
unionoverheard strikes opportunities

• We learned that people in many cities organized
  _____ to protest the rules for riding buses.
• The fight for Civil Rights happened on both sides
  of the _____ between the northern and southern
  states.
• Some _____ of Montgomery, Alabama, decided to
  stop riding the buses until they had equal _____
  .
• In other cities, there were workers who went on
  _____
• Finally, a _____ was created to help change the
  laws in the United States.
• I _____ there might be a strike in our city
  tomorrow.

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Word Origins

• Some words come from the names of people. For
  example, the Fahrenheit temperature scale is
  named after Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, who
  invented it.
• The meaning of words is found in their history.
  Spelling preserves the meaning and holds keys to
  understanding words deeply.
• Word Origins

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Word Origins

• The sandwich store sold one hundred varieties of
  specialty combinations.
• sandwich noun 1. two more slices of bread with a
  filling such as meat or cheese placed between
  them 2. something resembling a sandwich
• Word History
• John Montague, a Fourth Earl of Sandwich
  in England, was something so busy that he refused
  to get up, even to eat a meal. It is said that
  around the year 1765, he asked his servants to
  bring him his meat by placing it between two
  pieces of bread. Soon others began to order the
  same as Sandwich. The original sandwich was a
  piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted
  bread.

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Vocabulary Story Words

• escalators- mechanical staircases that
  continually move up or down
• hummingbird- a tiny bird whose wings move so fast
  they make a humming sound
• immigration- the movement of people from their
  native country to live in another country
• immigrants- people who leave their country to
  live in another country
• region- an area or district
• ethnic- group of people sharing the same culture
• overcrowded- when a place had too many people

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Comprehension Generate Questions

• You can generate questions as you read by asking
  yourself what is happening and what might happen
  next in the story.
• Good readers ask themselves questions as they
  read to help them to check their understanding of
  the story and focus on important ideas.

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ComprehensionMake Inferences

• Good readers draw on clues provided by the author
  and their own experiences to help them understand
  what the author has not stated directly.
• For example, the author may tell about only a few
  of a characters thoughts and actions, but a
  reader may have experienced something similar and
  will be able to use that experience to predict
  what could happen next.
• Inferences Practice
• Guess What Comes Next

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ComprehensionAnalyze Character

• A character is a person or animal in a story.
• A major character is necessary to the story a
  minor character just adds flavor.
• Traits are the special qualities of the
  characters personality.
• Developing an understanding of a character helps
  readers relate to that character. It also
  enables them to appreciate the characters
  feelings and predict how he or she will behave.
• Character Trait

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GenreRealistic Fiction

• It is a made-up story that could have happened in
  real life.

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Genre Textbook Excerpt

• Provides information about a specific subject
• Contains headings, paragraphs, and bold-faced
  words that organize the information
• Usually includes photographs or other visual
  sources of information
• Are short nonfiction pieces taken from a textbook

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Text Feature Primary Sources

• Primary sources give readers glimpses of what
  life was like for people living in other time
  periods.
• Primary sources are first-person accounts.
• Are first person accounts of historical events in
  letters, journals, or oral histories.

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Immigrants

• Immigrants came to America, and continue to come
  to America, to make better lives for themselves.
• Ellis Island Timeline

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Fluency Punctuation/Quotation Marks

• Pay close attention to punctuation this will help
  you with intonation and expression.
• When reading with a partner, take turns reading
  the sentences aloud and practice pausing for
  commas, dashes, and ellipses.
• Road Trip!

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Decode Words with th, sh, wh, and ph

• Diagraphs are two letters that represent one
  sound.
• The digraph th represents the first sound in this
  or thing.
• The digraph sh represents the first sound in
  shoe.
• The digraph wh usually represents /w/ or /hw/ in
  whistle. It sometimes stands for the /h/ in
  whole.

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Create a list of words that end in sh, th, or ph
sh th ph





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Reflection Day 1

• Boycotts are refusal to buy products as ways of
  protesting prices or poor treatment. Our
  boycotts made the company change its policies.
  How are boycotts and strikes similar and
  different?

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Reflection Day 2

• Predict what will happen to Amada after the end
  of the story. Use two details and/or examples
  from the story to support your answer.

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Reflection Day 3

• Explain why the setting is important in My Diary
  from Here to There. Provide two details and/or
  examples from the story to support your answer.

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Reflection Day 4

• What questions might you ask to help yourself
  understand how Amada is feeling as the family
  travels and then arrives Mexicali?

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Reflection Day 5

• Diaries and journals kept by individuals in the
  past can be important sources of information for
  people doing research today.
• In what ways do you think diaries could be
  important sources of information?
• How might Amadas diaries be useful to people of
  future generations?