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Unit : 2 Week:5 Theme: Sled dogs as heroes. STORY: THE GREAT SERUM RACE. Genre. Nonfiction Nonfiction is a detailed account of real people or situations using v erifiable facts. Strategy.
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Unit : 2 Week:5 Theme: Sled dogs as heroes. STORY: THE GREAT SERUM RACE
Genre • Nonfiction • Nonfiction is a detailed account of real people or situations using verifiable facts.
Strategy • Summarize- Summarizing helps you identify what a selection is about, remember to select the most important ideas, and restate them in your own words.
Skill • Sequence of Events- Remember to look for clue words and phrases to understand the chronological order of events and organize your summaries.
Unbearable (adj.) • That which cannot be endured or tolerated • Trying not to cry was almost unbearable while looking at the peas. Blah!!!
Rendezvous (noun) To meet at a fix place or time The rendezvous point for the members of the sewing club was set for the local café.
PEDESTRIAN (noun) • A person who travels on foot; walkers. • The pedestrian walked 10 miles within an hour!
outskirts (noun) The regions or sections surrounding, or at the edge of an area , as in a city. We discovered a beautiful pond on the outskirts of town.
intercept (verb) • To stop on the way, to stop the course or progress of. The defensive back managed to intercept the quarterback’s pass
Quarantine (verb) • The isolation of persons , animals, ships, or goods exposed to infectious disease, to prevent the spread of the disease. • The doctors put the family under quarantine, when influenza broke out.
epidemic (noun) The rapid spread of a disease among people at the same time. The elementary school experienced an epidemic of chicken pox.
Plight (adj.) A bad situation or condition. The drought created a terrible plight for farmers.
Story Words • caribou- any of a group of large deer that live in the northern regions of the world • antitoxin- an antibody, or protein, formed in the body that provides protection against a specific poison • diphtheria- a serious bacterial disease that is highly contagious, characterized by high fever and difficulty in breathing • malamutes- wolf-like dogs of a breed native to northwestern Alaska having a thick, coarse coat • mukluks- sealskin or reindeer-skin boot worn by the Inuit