Southwest Landscapes: A Modern Fairy Tale

1. Author: Jackie Mims Hopkins Genre: Modern Fairy Tale Big Question: What is unique about the landscape of the Southwest?

2. Review Games Story Sort Vocabulary Words: • Arcade Games • Study Stack • Spelling City: Vocabulary • Spelling City: Spelling Words

3. Small Group Timer

4. Spelling Words Long e

5. breezy jury balcony steady alley trolley misty frequency parsley journey chimney attorney prairie calorie honey valley money finally movie country empty city rookie hockey collie

6. Vocabulary Words • bargain • favor • lassoed • offended • prairie • riverbed • shrieked • sassy • suspiciously • twang • corral • frontier • rodeo Vocabulary Words More Words to Know

7. Big Question: What is unique about the landscape of the Southwest? • Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

8. Monday

9. Today we will learn about: • Build Concepts • Author’s Purpose • Story Structure • Build Background • Vocabulary • Fluency: Model Volume • Grammar: Compound Sentences • Spelling: Long e • The Southwest

10. FluencyModelVolume

11. Fluency: Volume • Listen as I read “Growing Up in the Old West.” • As I read, notice how I use a volume suited to the size of the room and the distance of the farthest listener. • Be ready to answer questions after I finish.

12. Fluency: Volume • What was the author’s purpose for writing “Growing Up in the Old West?” • What does the author think about the life of frontier children in the Old West?

13. Concept Vocabulary • corral– pen for horses and cattle • frontier– the farthest part of a settled country, where the wilds begin • rodeo– a contest or exhibition of skill in roping cattle and riding horses and bulls • Next Slide

14. corral

15. frontier

16. rodeo

17. Concept Vocabulary (To add information to the graphic organizer, click on end show, type in your new information, and save your changes.)

18. Build Concept Vocabulary corral, frontier, rodeo The Southwest

19. Author’s Purpose & Story StructureTurn to page 88-89.

20. Prior KnowledgeThink of as many things are you can about typical settings, characters, story events, or lessons learned from familiar fairy tales.

21. Vocabulary Words

22. Vocabulary Words • bargain – an agreement to trade or exchange; deal • favor – act of kindness • lassoed – roped; caught with a long rope with a loop on the end • offended – hurt the feelings of someone; made angry

23. Vocabulary Words • prairie – large area of level or rolling land with grass but few or no trees • riverbed – channel in which a river flows or used to flow • shrieked – made a loud, sharp, shrill sound

24. More Words to Know • sassy – rude; lively; spirited • suspiciously – without trust; doubtfully • twang – to make a sharp, ringing sound • (Next Slide)

25. lassoed

26. prairie

27. riverbed

28. bargain

29. favor

30. lassoed

31. offended

32. prairie

33. riverbed

34. shrieked

35. sassy

36. suspiciously

37. twang

38. Grammar • Compound Sentences

39. she wanted to explore the vally but her father had warned her to be carefull • She wanted to explore the valley, but her father had warned her to be careful. • yesterday she rodes at a steady pace for haf a hour • Yesterday she rode at a steady pace for half an hour.

40. Compound Sentences • Reba Jo made a promise, but she tried to break it. • This is a compound sentence. When two simple sentences are joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or, or when they are connected with a semicolon and no connecting words, they make a compound sentence.

41. Compound Sentences • A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and a connecting word such as and, but, or or. • The two sentences in a compound sentence must have ideas that make sense together.

42. Compound Sentences • Simple Sentences: The horned toad looks like a toad. It is really a lizard. • Compound Sentence: The horned toad looks like a toad, but it is really a lizard.

43. Compound SentencesIs the sentence a simple or compound sentence? • Reba Jo loved to ride and play her guitar. • simple sentence • The wind blew her hat away, and she rode after it. • compound sentence

44. Compound SentencesIs the sentence a simple or compound sentence? • Reba Jo wanted her hat, but she was frightened. • compound sentence • The horned toad spoke to her and found her hat. • simple sentence

45. Compound SentencesIs the sentence a simple or compound sentence? • Give me some chili, or I will tell your father. • compound sentence

46. Compound SentencesJoin each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or. • The horned toad knocked on the door. Reba Jo’s father let him in. • The horned toad knocked on the door, and Reba Jo’s father let him in.

47. Compound SentencesJoin each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or. • Reba Jo had made a promise. She did not want to keep it. • Reba Jo had made a promise, but she did not want to keep it. • She gave the horned toad some chili. He gobbled it up. • She gave the horned toad some chili, and he gobbled it up.

48. Compound SentencesJoin each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or. • The toad asked Reba Jo to kiss him. At first she refused. • The toad asked Reba Jo to kiss him, but at first she refused.

49. Compound SentencesJoin each pair of simple sentences to make a compound sentence. Use the word and, but, or or. • A cowgirl had to kiss the horned toad. He would never become a prince. • A cowgirl had to kiss the horned toad, or he would never become a prince.

50. Spelling Words Long e