Ten Mile Day

Day 2

Concept talk

What challenges do immigrants encounter?

PARTNER SHARE• Why might people wait anxiously

during the process of immigration?• What are some of the things that

happen on Ellis Island?• What do you think immigrants pack

with their belongings? What would you take with you to a new country?

Amazing Words

o Emblem- a visual representation of an idea, place or person

o The Statue of Liberty an emblem of the freedom found in America

o allegiance- means loyalty or faithfulnesso We recite the Pledge of Allegiance every

morning before school starts.o Teach your partner what this amazing word means.

FluencyWith your partner read the story “Coming to the United States.”

Don’t stop until I tell you to.

Read aloud either together or one at a time.

Make sure to use good pacing and correct voice inflection

A New Place to Live

• As you read the story “A New Place to Live” on page 145 think about the allegiances the workers feel to their employer, family, or country and the emblems that add to those feelings of allegiance.

Word AnalysisWe can add the suffix –ing to a verb

It signals that an action is happening and continuing to happen

I am laughing at the funny dog. Words with suffix –ing can also be used as

adjectivesShe looked at me with laughing eyes.

Literary TermsWe are going to need our books now. 1-56-1011-1516-2021-26

Literary TermsSensory DetailsThese are words that help a reader

experience the way things:LookFeelSmellTastesound

Literary Terms• Let’s look back to yesterday’s read

aloud “Journey to Ellis Island”.• Listen for sensory details as I read

this sentence :• The hall was hot and stuffy, and it

echoed with noise-babies crying, people talking anxiously to each other in many different languages, and officials calling out names.

Literary Terms• What sensory details did you notice?• Let’s read paragraph 2 on page 149. • Let’s read it together.• Who can find sensory details?• How did they help you imagine the

scene?

Vocabulary• Multiple Meaning Words• Words that have the same spelling

but different meanings• Using context clues-the words and

sentences around the word• You can clarify which meaning is

being used

• Let’s look at page W-10• The first sound was the prying open

of the bulldozer door.• The word prying can mean moving or

forcing open• Let’s reread the sentence, the word

prying means moving or forcing open• I can substitute the word forcing in

the sentence and see that it works.• So, now I can see that prying means

forcing.

Transcontinental RailroadWhat was the transcontinental railroad?Why was it built?How did the immigrants help build it?What challenges do you think they faced?Word Splash—I am going to give you 1 minute

to write all the words you can think of that relate to the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental Railroad• Share with your partner all the words you wrote and look at the words they wrote about the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental RailroadThe transcontinental railroad was the first railroad to go across the United States from the east coast to the west coast.It was built so people could travel all the way across the United States. Many of the workers who built the tracks for the railroad were Chinese and Irish immigrants.

Transcontinental RailroadThe faced mistreatment and discrimination.They all had to put in long days of hard labor. Imagine what it must have been like to blast through a mountain to build the tracks.

These are the trains that met at Promontory Point.

Some mistakes were made and the tracks didn’t line up.

The map shows the route each railroad company took across the United States.

This sign is in the museum marking this amazing day.

The day the two rail companies met at Promontory Point.

The golden spike.

Nailing in the golden spike.

Chinese workers

Immigrant railroad workers

Text Features• Maps:• Maps can help us get an overview of

the subject.• A map shows where something is or

where something happened. • There are many different types of

maps:• Road maps• Historical maps

Text Features• The map on page 147 is a historical

map• I can see where the railroad tracks

were laid and where the ten-mile day began and ended.

• I can find the mountains and Promontory Summit

• This map helps me really see this story.

Vocabulary• Barren- unable to produce fruit• The farmer’s trees were barren and

looked empty in the field.

• Deafening- very loud• The jet roared over the house with a

deafening roar.

• TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Vocabulary• Lurched- rolled suddenly• The car lurched forward in the garage.

• Previous- occurs before in time• She enjoyed the previous show better.

• TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Vocabulary• Prying- to look at closely• The girl looked into the closet with

prying eyes.

• Surveying- looking carefully at• He was surveying the hill for his cat.

• TEACH YOUR PARTNER THESE WORDS

Ten Mile DayThe story “Ten Mile Day” is an expository text.Expository text tells about real people and

events.Let’s preview the title, photographs and map

in the story to help get an overview of the story.

I want to you to think about challenges that the immigrants might encounter.

Ten Mile DayLets start reading the story

Ten Mile DayReread the the last two paragraphs

on page 148. What are the effects of Crocker’s

belief?The effect is that the President of the

Union Pacific offered $10,000 to the team that could lay ten miles of track in one day.

Ten Mile Day• Let’s keep reading…Read paragraph 2 on page 149.What are the effects of Crocker’s arm

rising and falling.The hogger made the whistle blow

and the race began.

Ten Mile Day• Looking at the picture on page 150,

do you think the rails are heavy?• Why• What was laid first? The wooden

boards or the metal rails?

It took 3 workers to move it into place.

Ten Mile Day• Which man is the boss?

• Why is he in the back yelling?

• From the picture do you think these men are working in unison?

Ten Mile Day• Ok, now let’s read on to page 153

• What does the word mammoth mean ?

• I can reread the part of the sentence where I see the word mammoth.

• I think about the different meanins fo the word mammoth.

Ten Mile Day• I know it can mean both “huge” and

and extinct mammal.• I restate the sentence using both

meanings .• “Like a large extinct mammal

machine with hundreds…”• “Like a huge machine with hundreds

of well oiled parts”• YES!

Nouns• Please tell me what kind of noun each

example is: proper, common or collective:

BookCommon!TeamCollective!Aunt TessProper!

Spelling Contractions

This week we will use words that are a shortened form of

two words. They contain apostrophes that show where

letters have been left out.

SpellingPlease make a contraction from

these wordsMust notMustn’t

Could haveCould’ve

SpellingWill notWon’tThere wouldThere’dYou areYou’re

Daily Fix itLets take a look at

our Daily Fix it

WRITINGThis week you will write an

expository composition. An expository composition is a nonfiction writing that informs readers about a topic.

WRITINGAn expository composition tells

about:Real peopleReal eventsGives readers a description about

somethingGives readers an explanation about

something

WRITINGExpository compositions contain:

An introduction with a topic sentenceBody with main idea and supporting

detailsconclusion

WRITINGMany people thought that building the transcontinental railroad was impossible.Think of another American achievement that seemed impossible. Now write an expository composition about it.