grandfathers_journey_fix-it.pdf |
These are the webpages for the Reading Powerpoints we watch in class.
the_man_who_went_to_the_far_side_of_the_moon.ppt |
literature_group_notes.doc |
Vocabulary Words
Unit 1
Because of Winn-Dixie
grand, memorial, peculiar, positive, prideful, recalls, selecting
Lewis and Clark and Me
docks, migrating, scan, scent, wharf, yearned
Grandfather's Journey
amazed, bewildered, homeland, longed, sculptures, still, towering
The Horned Toad Prince
bargain, favor, lassoed, offended, prairie, riverbed, shrieked
Letters From Yosemite
glacier, impressive, naturalist, preserve, slopes, species, wilderness
Vocabulary Words
Unit 2
What Jo Did
foulded, hoop, jersey, marveled, rim, speechless, swatted
Coyote School News
bawling, coyote, dudes, roundup, spurs
Grace and the Time Machine
aboard, atlas, awkward, capable, chant, mechanical, miracle, reseats, vehicle
Marven of the Great North Woods
cord, dismay, grizzly, immense, payroll
So You Want to Be President
Constitution, howling, humble, politics, responsibility, solemnly, vain
Unit 3
The Stranger
draft, etched, fascinated, frost, parlor, terror, timid
Adelina's Whales
biologist, bluff, lagoon, massive, rumbling, tropical
Unit 3
The Houdini Box
appeared, bustling, crumbled, escape, magician, monument, vanished
Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
acquarium, dolphins, enchanted, flexible, glimpses, pulses, surface
The King in the Kitchen
duke, dungeon, furiously, genius, majesty, noble
Seeker of Knowledge
ancient, link, scholars, seeker, temple, translate, triumph, uncover
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander
amphibians, crime, exhibit, lizards, reference, reptitles, salamanders, stumped
Unit 5
Sailing Home
bow, cargo, celestial, conducted, dignified, navigation, quivered, stern
Lost City
curiosity, glorious, granite, ruins, terraced, thickets, torrent
Amelia and Eleanor
aviator, brisk, cockpit, daring, elegant, outspoken, solo
Antarctic Journal
anticipation, continent, convergence, depart, forbidding, heaves, icebergs
Moonwalk
loomed, rille, runt, staggered, summoning, taunted, trench, trudged
Unit 6
My Brother Martin
ancestors, avoided, generations, minister, numerous, pulpit, shielding
Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
boarding school, dormitory, endurance, manual, reservation, society
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon
astronauts, capsule, hatch, horizon, lunar, module, quarantine