Ghost Towns of the American West

Day 1

Concept Talk

What adventures helped drive westward

expansion?

PARTNER SHARE• Think about what you know about

westward expansion.

• What selections or books have you read about westward expansion?

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Anchored Talk• Turn to page 284-285• What are the man and girl doing with

the pans?• How did the people get around?• The open country could only be

traveled by horse. Possessions were packed in covered wagons.

• What did the towns of the Old West look like?

Listen:• “By the Great Horn Spoon!” is about

two men who went out west looking for gold. As I read, listen for the following words:

• Claim• Exuberance• Miners• Sluice box

AMAZING WORDS• Claim- a piece of land allotted to or

taken by someone• The miners made of claim of the

mountain in hopes of finding gold.• Exuberance- very happy• The teacher danced to show her

exuberance over the test scores.

AMAZING WORDS• Miners-someone who works in a

mine• After several years of digging, the

miners struck gold. • Sluice box- a long trough from

which water, gravel, and sand run• The miners found several ounces of

gold in the sluice box.

GENERALIZING• Generalize- means to make a broad

statement that applies to several examples. How do we decide which examples to make a generalization about?

• Authors sometimes make generalizations by using clue words. Why would an author want to make generalization?

GENERALIZING• As we read “The Gold Rush,” let’s

look for generalizations. Please read the paragraph one.

• What generalization did Abraham Lincoln make about the West?

• What examples support his generalization?

• Would you consider his generalization valid? Why or why not?

QUESTIONING• When I read “The Gold Rush” I ask myself

evaluative questions to help me understand the passage better.

• Was it smart for eighty thousand people to move to the area where Sutter and Marshall were?

• When I look back at the paragraph, I see that people who found gold and silver got rich, so I can judge this to be a smart decision.

Spelling• Greek Parts:• Tele• Photo• Graph• Meter• Your words this week will include

these Greek parts

Vocabulary• Economic- relating to income, goods,

and services• The men argued over the economic

conditions of the nation. • Independence- freedom from control• Our fore fathers fought for

independence from Britain. • Teach your partner these words.

Vocabulary• Overrun- spread over• Her milk had overrun all over the

countertop. • Scrawled- wrote carelessly• He scrawled on the wall with the

crayon.

• Teach your partner these words.

Vocabulary• Vacant- unoccupied• The apartment was vacant so they

decided to rent it.

• Teach your partner this word.

Adverbs• Adverbs answer how, when and

where something happens. What are the adverbs in these sentences?

• I ran slowly.• Maria wrote the word carefully.• The package arrived yesterday.• He always tries his best.

Morphemes• The smallest unit of language that

carries meaning. • Morphemes can include base words,

roots, prefixes, and suffixes• You can combine two or three

morphemes to build words

MorphemesCombine the parts to make words

Prefixes Base Words SuffixesIm-

In-

Settle

Migrants

Scrawl

depend

-ence

-ed

-ment

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