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Ten Mile DayBy Mary Ann FraserWeek 1.5

+Day 1 – What challenges do immigrants encounter?

What are the immigrants in this picture doing? What does the Statue of Liberty stand for? What do you think these immigrants are thinking about? Arrival at Ellis Island - http://www.history.com/topics/ellis-island/videos/arrival-at-ellis-island

+ Concept MapRead Aloud: Journey to Ellis Island

Amazing Words:immigrationEllis Islandbelongingsanxiously

In “Journey to Ellis Island,” we read about immigration officials. What context clues tell me the meaning of this word?

Discuss with a partner:Why might people seek immigration to a new country? What do you think immigration officials do at Ellis Island?

+Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect Comprehension Strategy: Text Structure

+Vocabulary

Plants and trees could not grow in the barren field. What do you think a barren field looks like?

+Vocabularybarren deafening lurched

unable to produce much or any plant life

stunningly loud

leaned or rolled suddenly

loudunproductive stagger

+Spelling – Take your Pretest on Spelling City!

Then write down your words in your spiral.

Conventions – Finish working on Grammar pg 5 after your guided reading group time.

handwriting – complete the next two pages in your cursive packet.

+Day 2 – Content KnowledgeOral Language

9 Facts you might not know about Ellis Island - http://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-ellis-island

“There were rows and rows of wooden benches crowded with men, women, and children and their bundles of belongings.” –”Journey to Ellis Island”

What does belongings mean? What belongings would

immigrants bring with them? What words could be used

in place of belongings?

+Concept MapAmazing Words:allegianceemblem

Is the Statue of Liberty an emblem of the freedom found in America?

What do you think emblem means?

Brainstorm and write: With a partner think of emblems you see at school, or at a sporting event. Create a list in your reading spiral.

+Vocabulary previous prying

coming or being before

moving or forcing open; searching too curiously

inquisitivepreceding

surveying

looking over or viewing

observe

+Word Analysis: Suffix -ing The Old English suffix –ing can be added to a verb. It signals that an action is

happening and is continuing to happen. Words with the suffix –ing can also be used as adjectives, or words that describe (the

baking cookies) Create a chart in your reading spiral like the one below. Determine the meaning of words with the –ing suffix by using the words as verbs and

adjectives. Some words are typically used as verbs, while others are normally used as adjectives.

+Literary Terms: Sensory Details Sensory details are words that help the reader experience the

way things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel Find some sensory details in this quote:

“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.” – “Journey to Ellis Island”

What sensory details did you notice? Is there other sensory details in the following paragraph?

+Vocabulary Skill: Multiple-Meaning Words

After you have read “A New Place To Live” pretend you are a construction worker building a skyscraper. Create your own journal entry describing what you see and hear as you work. Use the words from the Words to Know list.

Words to know: barren, deafening, prying, lurched, previous, surveying.

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Expository text tells about real people and events. An exposition is an explanation.

Expository texts explain the nature of people, events, or things in the real world.

Look at the title and illustrations. What do you predict will happen?

+Spelling – Practice your spelling words by playing a game on Spelling City!

Vocabulary – Worksheet 90

News-o-matic – Read a news article of your choosing from News-o-matic. Fill in the News-O-Matic summary sheet!

+Day 3 – Content KnowledgeOral Language Transcontinental Railroad http

://www.history.com/topics/inventions/transcontinental-railroad “As the supply train was unloaded, three men rushed to the

end of the rails, what they called the end o’ track. The three pioneers scrambled ahead to the first loose ties. Then they began lifting, prying, and shoving to the center the bare tires on the grade.” –Ten Mile Day p. 150

Why does the author call the men “the three pioneers”? What are the ties that the author is referring to? What are the men doing when they are “lifting, prying, and

shoving to center the ties”?

+Concept MapAmazing Words:sustenance adversity

Yesterday we read about how hard the laborers worked to lay ten miles of track in a day. They will need food for sustenance to help them work.

What do you think sustenance means?What are some examples?

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Expository text tells about real people and events.

Why did the three men rush to the end of the rails as the supply train was unloaded? What is the effect of their actions?

Once the supplies were unloaded and put into place, what was the order of the groups of workers?

+Spelling – Quietly practice writing your spelling words on a dry erase board with a partner.

Conventions – Finish Common, Proper, and Collective Nouns WS 42

Type to Learn – Work on type to learn for 10 minutes.

+Day 4 – Content KnowledgeOral Vocabulary Coming to America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

LfvRxpPlYC0 “With the completion of another two miles of track, the

second supply train pulled back to the siding and the third train steamed forward, belching thick clouds of black smoke.” –The Ten Mile Day p. 154

This sentence says “the third train steamed forward.” What other words can we use in place of steamed?

Train engines ran on wood or coal, which when burned produced ash, smoke, and steam. Sometimes we use the idiom run out of steam. What do you think this idiom means?

+Concept MapAmazing Word:established homeland

In the reading Ten Mile Day, you can tell that the workers have established a good routine for laying the tracks What is the meaning of the word established?

How would you know if a routine had been established?

+21st Century Skills Technology is all around us. What types of technology do

we use every day? What is e-mail? How does it work? What are ways we can keep in touch with a friend who

moved away? Let’s compare e-mail and regular mail. Copy the Venn

diagram below in your reading spiral.

+Vocab and Listening Adage An adage is a short but

memorable saying that expresses a meaningful idea. For example, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” means that eating healthy foods will keep you healthy.

Practice It! Read through Ten Mile Day with

a partner and try to find several adages. Explain the meaning and how they apply to the story.

Job Advertisement A job advertisement is a

public notice that gives information about a job.

With a partner create a descriptive, detailed ad for a job with the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Discuss where to place your ad – newspaper, radio, TV or the Internet – and explain why. use information from Ten Mile Day to help you create your job advertisement.

+Spelling – Get on Spelling City and practice your words with a spelling game.

Conventions – WS 94

Vocabulary - Center

+Day 5 – Content KnowledgeOral Language

This week you have learned ten Amazing Words related to challenges encountered by immigrants.

immigration, Ellis Island, belongings, anxiously, allegiance, emblem, sustenance, adversity, established, homeland.

Use the concept map and what you have learned from this week’s discussions and reading selections to form and AMAZING IDEA – a realization or big idea about challenges immigrants encounter.

In your spiral write down a few sentences about your AMAZING IDEA beginning with, “This week I learned…”

+REVIEW Comprehension Skill – Cause and Effect

A cause is what makes something happen. An effect is what happens as the result of the cause.

Look back through Ten Mile Day. Find an example of cause and effect with a partner.

Make sure you identify whether the cause or the effect is listed first in the text.

Extra Practice – WS 44

+REVIEW Vocabulary Skill – Multiple-Meaning Words Multiple-meaning words are words that have the same

spelling but different meanings. Use context clues to help determine which meaning is being

used. Use a drill to make a hole in this board.

Our teacher will drill us on multiplication tables over and over again.

What does drill mean in each of these sentences? What context clues are there in each sentence?

+REVIEW Word Analysis – Suffix –ing The old English suffix –ing can be used to signal a

continuous action. It can also be used to describe. Create a chart like the one below in your spiral. Write the

meaning of each of the –ing words.

Word Meaningembracingforbiddingfollowingachingdeafening

+REVIEW Literary Terms – Sensory Details Sensory details help the read experience the way things look,

sound, smell, taste, or feel. Create the chart below in your spiral. As I reread “Journey to

Ellis Island” listen and write down sensory details in the correct column.

See Hear Smell Taste Feel

+Spelling – Take your post test on Spelling City!

Type to learn – Work on your typing for 15 minutes.