Letters Home from Yosemite
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Week 5 – Letters Home from Yosemite
Concept Question
Vocabulary Words
Skills & Strategy
Spelling Words
How does Yosemite reflect the unique qualities of the West?
eruptions
Main Idea & Details
usual
truth
earthquake
Graphic Organizers
huge
bruise
volcano
Suffixes (-ist, -ive)
flute
cruel
glacier
Fact & Opinion
mood
excuse
impressive
Clauses & Complex Sentences
smooth
pupil
naturalist
threw
groove
preserve
afternoon
confuse
slopes
scooter
humor
species
juice
duty
wilderness
cruise
curfew
Challenge Spelling Words
influence
accumulate
aluminum
igloo
nutrition
Videos:
To watch videos, click on the links below. Then logon into Discovery Education using:
username: nasdgrade4
password: student
The Eruption of Mt. Saint Helens (2 min)
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=3C184A91-EB7E-420F-8269-A5EEAD98007C
Volcanoes: Mountains of Fire (27 min)
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8565EFBE-6F25-42BF-A60C-0BEA7F34ADCA
National Geographic: Yosemite National Park (3 min)
National Geographic: Yosemite - The Wild Side (3 min)
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/nat-geo-wild/wild-all-videos/ngc-yosemite.html
National Geographic: Giant Sequoias Need Fire (3 min)
National Geographic: Lightning Peril on Yosemite's Half Dome (3 min)
National Geographic: Secret Yosemite (45 min)
Build Background
Look at the pictures below to determine the many different geographic feature and wildlife found in Yosemite National Park.
Vocabulary
- Is a glacier hot or cold? Is it large or small? Does it move quickly or slowly?
- How do you feel when you see an impressive sight in nature?
- In what kind of things does a naturalist study?
- If you want to preserve a forest, are you helping it or hurting it? Explain.
- What are the names of some animal species?
- How are slopes different from mountain peaks?
- What sorts of things would you find in a wilderness?
- Is there more or less oxygen at a high altitude?
- What makes a butte rock formation?
- Why is it important not to pollute water reserviors?
Vocabulary Strategy - Suffixes (-ive, -ist)
- -ive means "tending or inclined to ____"
Example: active - tending to act
passive - tending to pass
impressive - tending to impress
- - ist means "one who is an expert or studies ____"
Example: biologist - an expert in biology
naturalist - studies the natural world
dentist - an expert in dentistry
Fact & Opinion
- Fact - can be proved true or false
- Opinion - a person's beliefs, feelings, or way of thinking that can't be proved true or false
Click on the link below to play a jeopardy review game for fact & opinion and other review activities.
http://www.sikeston.k12.mo.us/mapattack/6th/cz04.ppt
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/biog/images/factopinion.ppt
Main Idea
- the most important thing the author is trying to say
- What is the point?
- supported by details
- usually the 1st or last sentence in a paragraph
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html
Main Idea Song - Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24RyhtX1qA
Yellowstone National Park Videos
http://www.visitmt.com/national_parks/yellowstone/video_series/Clauses & Complex Sentences- Independent Clause - sentence that can stand on its own
- Dependent Clause - phrase that is not a complete sentence
- Compound Sentence - combines two sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction (and, or, but)
- Complex Sentence - sentence made up of an independent and dependent clause
A comma separates the dependent & independent clause if the dependent clause comes first in the sentence.Dependent Clause Clue Words:so, because, since, as, although, in order to, as a result, etc.Review the Writing Complex Sentences PowerPoint at the bottom of this page.