Reading Story - "SpaceShipOne" pages 112-121

Vocabulary Terms for story:

1. ignite - to set fire, cause to burn; to heat to a great degree

2. hybrid - made up of two or more different things

3. synthetic - item is artificial rather than natural

4. exhaust - the gas that comes out of an engine as a waste product

5. physics - the scientific study of matter and energy

6. institution - an organization that has a particular focus or goal

7. expedition - a trip that has a purpose, such as exploring or research

8. incredible - so amazing that it's hard to believe

9. progress - to improve or to complete steps toward reaching a goal

10. chronology - the time and order of a series of events

Vocabulary terms are located on www.quizlet.com/_86kr2c?x=1qqt&i=2ba2it

Spelling Words:

Basic Words:

storage                   olive                   service                   relative

cabbage                 courage            native                     passage

voyage                   knowledge       image                     creative

average                 justice              detective                 postage

cowardice            adjective          village                       language

Review Words:

future              curtain           surgeon           measure

Challenge Words:

heritage          prejudice         cooperative            apprentice

ReadWorks passages--www.readworks.org

5-A Classcode    S2FAC4

5-B Classcode    A644DN

Passages to read and answer questions:

Trouble is Brewing:  A Tax on Tea

Gray Wolves:  Predator and Prey

IXL Skills

Fifth grade skills:  Language Arts

Reading Strategies:

EE  Context clues    1, 2, 3, 4

C   Author's purpose   1, 2

2nd Grade Skills:  Mrs. Audrey Stroehlein 's students    E and D (first name of students)

A  Syllables   1, 2

B  Rhyming   1, 2, 3, 4, 5

3rd Grade Skills:   Mrs. Audrey Stroehlein's students     L and G (first name of students) and Mrs. Angela Lester's students

C   Author's Purpose  1, 2

FF   Context Clues    1, 2

Writing Strategies:  Fifth grade skills

P     Introductions  1, 2

2nd Grade Skills:  Mrs. A. Stroehlein's students      E and D (first name of students)

X   Organizing Writing   1

3rd Grade Skills:  Mrs. A. Stroehlein's students     L and G (first name of students)  and Mrs. A. Lester's students

O    Organizing Writing   1, 2, 3

Grammar and Mechanics:  Fifth grade skills

OO    Conjunctions     1, 2, 3, 4

PP   Contractions   1,2

2nd grade skills:  Mrs. A. Stroehlein's students    E and D  (first name of students)

UU   Articles    1,2

XX    Contractions     1, 2, 3

3rd grade skills:  Mrs. A. Stroehlein's students    L and G  (first name of students) and Mrs. A. Lester's students

QQ    Conjunctions     1, 2

RR    Contractions     1, 2

Virginia Studies:

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Vocabulary for chapter 8:

1. reconstruction - the period after the Civil War in which the U.S. Congress passed laws to rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into the Union

2. racist - a person who believes that one race is superior to the others

3. sharecropper - a farmer who pays for renting a piece of land by paying with a portion of the crop grown on that land

4. amendment - a change or addition to an existing law

5. discrimination - an unfair difference in the treatment of people

6. segregation - the separation of people, usually based on race, religion, or gender

7. foundries - places where iron and steel are turned into usable items

8. textiles - cloth made by weaving

Study Guides for all Virginia Studies' sols located at www.solpass.org   (all Virginia Studies sols)

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Password:  cobra

study all sols for upcoming sols test

Quizzis site--topics for sites on Fifth grade level  www.quizzis.com  (all 5th grade sols)

Language Arts:  main ideas; figurative language; commas; prepositions

VA Studies:  Virginia segregation; reconstruction of Virginia; 13th, 14th, and 15the amendments