LOST CITY The Discovery of Machu Picchu

1. LOST CITY The Discovery of Machu Picchu By Ted Lewin Day 1Day 4 Day 2 Day 5 Day 3 Vocabulary Definitions Vocabulary Sentences Additional Resources

4. Study Skills • Genre: Narrative Nonfiction • Comprehension Skill: Compare Contrast • Comprehension Strategy: Visualize • Comprehension Review Skill: Sequence • Vocabulary: Word Structure – Greek and Latin Roots

5. Genre: Narrative Nonfiction Narrative nonfiction can tell the story of a real event such as the discovery of a lost city. The details of the event are presented in sequence so that readers can understand the cause-and-effect relationships.

6. Summary Professor Hiram Bingham goes on a journey to Peru to find the lost city of Machu Picchu. With the help of a farmer named Arteaga and a Quechua boy, Bingham finds something unexpected -- the beautiful city of Machu Picchu sitting among the clouds.

7. Comprehension Skill Review: Compare and Contrast • A Comparison tells how two or more things are alike. • A Contrast tells how they are different • Clue words such as like, same or as show similarities. • Clue words such as • or unlike show differences.

8. Day 1 - Question of the Week • What surprises can happen on an expedition?

9. Vocabulary - Say It • thickets • torrent • terraced • curiosity • glorious • ruins • granite

10. More Words to Know remote rugged ventured adobe highland terraces

11. Comprehension Strategy Visualize • Good readers visualize as they read. • This means they create pictures in their minds. • Sensory words such as sticky and cracklecan help you experience what you are reading.

13. Listen to the Story

14. Comprehension Skill- Sequence Pg. 551 • Sequencemeans the order in which things happen. • Dates, times, and clue words such as first, then, next,and last can help you understand the order of events. • Sometimes two or more events happen at the same time. Words such as meanwhile and during can show this.

16. Compare and Contrast PB 213 3. Rome was a huge empire. 2. They both produced great poets and artists. 4. Rome had more advanced building methods 5. _____________________________________________________________

17. A locul farm boy guided Hiram Bingham to Machu picchu. 2. The cityies location had been a secrit to most people until then.

18. Comparatives & Superlatives

19. What’s your function? • A comparative compares two items. • nicer, cooler, meaner • A superlative compares three items. • nicest, coolest, meanest • They can be used as adjectives.

20. Grammar Warm-up • Write one comparative sentenceandone superlative sentence for each adjective listed below:

21. What is the comparative form of the adjective slow? • What is the superlative form of the adjective slow?

22. Did You Know… • Adjectives that have two or more syllablessometime require more or most to make the comparative and superlative forms.

23. What is the comparative form of the adjective ferocious? • What is the superlative form of the adjective ferocious?

26. Day 2 - Question of the Day • Why do you think Hiram Bingham was willing to go on such a difficult expedition?

27. Vocabulary Strategy – Greek and Latin Roots • Many English words have Latin or Greek roots. • For example, the Latin word terra means “earth, land.” Part of it appears in words such as terrain and territory. • The Latin word gloria means “praise”; part of it appears in words such as glorify, meaning “to praise.” • You might be able to use Latin and Greek roots to help you figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

28. 1. What is the Latin word for terraced? terra – it has to do with land 2. How does the root in glorious… it means “praise” 3. What do you think terrain means?... refers to ground you walk on – “land” 4. It does not make sense . . . it refers to something worth of praise 5.Write a sentence. . . ________________________________ Practice Word Structure

29. curiosity an eager desire to know or learn

30. glorious magnificent; splendid

31. ruins what is left after a building, wall, etc., has fallen to pieces

32. granite a very hard gray or pink rock that is formed when lava cools slowly underground

33. thickets bushes or small trees growing close together

34. torrent a violent, rushing stream of water

35. formed into a flat, level land with steep sides; terraces are often made in hilly areas to create more space for farming terraced

36. remote • out of the way; secluded

37. rugged covered with rough edges; rough and uneven

38. ventured dared to come or go (to a new or unknown place)

39. adobe built with bricks made from clay baked in the sun

40. highland related to a region that is higher and hillier than the neighboring countryside

41. terraces flat raised levelsof land with straight or sloping sides. Terraces are often made one above the other in hilly areas to create more space for raising crops.

42. Weekly Fluency Check -Phrasing • Grouping words that go together and making corrections if you make mistakes helps listeners to understand a selection better. • Break up long sentences by grouping related words into meaningful phrases. • Echo read the last paragraph on p. 544.

43. 3. After an long climb Bingham came across the city. 4. The ruins were the better he had ever seed.

44. SOME RULES ABOUT FORMING COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES • One syllable adjectives generally form the comparative by adding -er and the superlative by adding -est, e.g.:

45. SPELLING RULES • Note that if a one syllable adjective ends in a single vowel letter followed by a single consonant letter, the consonant letter is doubled, e.g.: thin → thinner, big → biggest. • If an adjective ends in -e, this is removed when adding -er/-est, e.g.: wide → wider/widest. • If an adjective ends in a consonant followed by -y, -y is replaced by -i when adding -er/-est, e.g.: dry → drier/driest.

46. TWO SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES • two syllable adjectives which end in -y usually form the comparative by adding -er and the superlative by adding -est, (note the change of -y to -i in the comparative/superlative) e.g.:

47. TWO SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES • two syllable adjectives ending in -ed, -ing, -ful, or -less always form the comparative with more and the superlative with the most, e.g.:

48. THREE SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES • Adjectives which have three or more syllables always form the comparative and superlative with MORE and THE MOST, e.g.: • The only exceptions are some three syllable adjectives which have been formed by adding the prefix -un to another adjective, especially those formed from an adjective ending in -y. These adjectives can form comparatives and superlatives by using more/most or adding -er/-est, e.g.:unhappy – unhappier – the unhappiest/ the most unhappy

49. Group WOrk • Readers & WB 214 • Spelling Day 2 • Language Arts WB 85 • Tri-fold Section 2 • SmartBoard- Vocabulary