Unit 2 Week 1: Reaching a Compromise
Essential Question: What do good problem solvers do?
Vocabulary
- committees, convention, debate, proposal, representatives, resolve, situation, union
- Use context clues to understand the meaning of a word
Spelling: Variant Vowel / Dipthongs
joint foul coil hoist stout
dawdle mouthful counter brought bawl
fountain sprawls douse clause sprouts
cautious turmoil scrawny foundation turquoise
Challenge: buoyant, renown
Review: year, thirst, squirm
Play: Unit 2 Week 1 Spelling City
dawdle mouthful counter brought bawl
fountain sprawls douse clause sprouts
cautious turmoil scrawny foundation turquoise
Challenge: buoyant, renown
Review: year, thirst, squirm
Play: Unit 2 Week 1 Spelling City
Reading
Strategy: Reread Skills: Text Structure; Problem and Solution Genre: Expository Text
Read Aloud: The Mayflower Compact
Main Selection: Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution? (LA)
Paired Reading: Parchment and Ink (LA)
Shared Reading: Creating a Nation (RWW)
Read Aloud: The Mayflower Compact
Main Selection: Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution? (LA)
Paired Reading: Parchment and Ink (LA)
Shared Reading: Creating a Nation (RWW)
Writing
Informative Trait: Ideas
Write to Sources
- Draw evidence from informational text
- Write an informative text
- Conduct extended research on solar energy
- Prewrite an invitation with directions
Grammar
Kinds of Nouns
