Unit 5Week 1

Day 1

Introduce the Theme• The title of this unit is New People, New

Places. Many different people make up our country. The United States did not become the country it is today all at once. New people and new places came together as our country grew.

• Share some facts that you know about American history.

• Can you think of famous people and places in American history?

Look at the pictures on pp 254-255. How do you think the people and places in these photographs relate to the United States? Which time periods in American history do you think each picture represents? What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize to you? Why?

• Unit 5 Theme Question: What events have shaped America?

• Week 1 Focus Question: Why did America grow geographically?

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Unit 5 Inquiry Project

• We’ll begin a new Inquiry Project on Day 5 this week. Each Inquiry Group will choose a new Inquiry Question to investigate.

• Remember to post theme-related questions, answers, concepts, and images to the Question Board.

• You can post these things at anytime during the unit.

Activate Prior Knowledge

• What was happening in America in the years after the Revolutionary War?

(Think back to what you read and learned about in Unit 3.)

Think about what it might have been like to live then.

• If there was still an unexplored part of our country, would you volunteer to be the first to explore it? Why?

• What would be the most difficult thing about moving to a new country? What would be the most exciting thing? Explain your answers.

Theme Vocabulary• Intimidating •Pioneer• Emigrate• immigrant

Intimidating (p. 258)

• Meaning: being able to frighten• Example: The sounds coming from the

haunted house were intimidating, but we went in anyway.

• How might a person act if he or she saw something intimidating?

Pioneer (p. 264)

• Meaning: someone who is one of the first to settle in a region.

• Example: Many pioneers walked hundreds of miles to reach new lands in the West.

• What are some qualities a pioneer might have?

Emigrate (p. 266)

• Meaning: to leave one’s country and live in another.

• Example: My grandparents emigrated from Croatia in the 1930s.

• What is one reason a person might emigrate?

Immigrant (p. 266)

• Definition: someone who comes to another country to live there permanently.

• Example: Many immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island.

• Which is a better antonym for immigrant: native or foreigner?

Prepare to Read

• Today we’ll read pages 258-263 of A Nation Grows.

• In the 1800s, the land to the west of the Appalachian Mountains was not well known. As more immigrants came to the United States, people began to settle this wild region

pioneer

Lets create a concept web around the word pioneer. Use your prior knowledge about pioneers to brainstorm ideas.

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/westwardexpansion/

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/famoushistoricalfigures/lewisandclark/

http://cbunyan.edu.glogster.com/westward-expansion-main-page/

Preview and Predict• Let’s look at pp. 256 and 257.

• The Chapter 1 title is “Seeing the Elephant.” What a strange name for a chapter title! When I turn the pge, I see pictures of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. I have read about Lewis and Clark before. I think this chapter will tell about their exploration of the West.

• After previewing the selection, I am very curious about what the chapter title “Seeing the Elephant” means. I would also like to learn more about Lewis and Clark’s expedition and how the prospect of finding gold influenced people to move west.

Read Togetherpp 258-263

The first section of Chapter 1 explains the chapter title immediately. Seeing the elephant was a saying that referred to traveling west. I don’t understand why the author included a photograph of a lizard, though. I will keep reading to find out.

Read Togetherpp 258-259

How did Lewis and Clark’s journey affect the growth of the United States?

PP 260-261Look at the map on these pages. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States?

PP 262-263: What are two important reasons that people risked their lives to travel to the West? What specific event greatly increased the number of people who moved to the west?

Respond

• What did you think you would learn from pp 258-263? How did your ideas change as you read the text?

• How did text features, photographs, and illustrations help you better understand the selection?

• What was your purpose for reading? Did the reading answer any questions you had? Did the reading create new questions in your mind?

Spelling and Phonics• Global• Channel• Angle• Whistle• Bicycle• Angel• Needle• Quarrel• Local• Legal• Puzzle• Stumble• Struggle• Article• Central• normal

Review Words17. Theater18. Genuine

Frequently Misspelled Words19. Enough20. tomorrow

Final Schwa + l sound

• Several different spellings can make the schwa + l sound.

• global channel angle

Underline the letters that spell each schwa + l sound.The schwa sound can be found in an unstressed

syllable of a word. In this week’s words, the final syllable is unstressed.

Practice/apply

• Fill in a 3-column chart with the column headings –al, -el, and –le.

-al -el -le

Fluency

• Open to Practice Companion p. 6. This week’s fluency selection is called “on the Path of Pioneers.”

• Throughout the week you will practice reading this passage to become fluent readers.

• What do you know about pioneers’ lives on the westward trails?

• What motivated pioneers to journey west?• What questions would you ask if you could

talk to a pioneer who made this difficult journey?

Become familiar with these words:

• Original• Globe• Landmark• Scenic• Location• Carbonated

This is a procedural text. See the numbers? A procedural text shares step-by-step directions on how to do something.

Listen as I read the selection aloud.

• Pay attention to my phrasing, pacing, and expression.

• Let’s complete an echo reading of the article and then a choral reading.

Day 1 Wrap-up

• What additional things did you learn while reading about Lewis and Clark and westward expansion?

• Use theme and other vocabulary as you discuss.

• Let’s make sure that students from all the groups have a chance to share.

• Share your thoughts on how what you’ve read connects to your personal experiences.

Daily Writing

• Write a paragraph explaining why you would or wouldn’t have enjoyed being a part of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

• When you’re using the Lead 21 Website this week, you can add to the Story Starter and the Theme Wall.