| 4th Period - SEI : English Language Arts |
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This Week's Unit: "How Many Days to America?" by Eve Bunting |
This is a story about refugees from a Caribbean island that escape to America.
The story begins when the police come and a family is forced to flee their Caribbean island and set sail for America in a small fishing boat. Other refugees crowd the boat and the voyage is a long one, but when the family finally arrives they discover it's a special day in more ways than one.
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4th Period SEI will be learning English through oral discussions, listening, basic English grammar rules, vocabulary, reading, and writing.
Remember to practice your English everyday!!
And read, read, read!
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Vocabulary: PowerPoint Vocabulary Quiz is on Friday |
Vocabulary:
1. immigrant - someone moving to a new country
2. restless - impatient
3. bobbed -to move up and down
4. quay - boat landing made of stone
5. bundle - a package
6. harbor - waterfront
7. shore - beach
8. celebrate - rejoice and have fun
9. cliffs - high steep mountain side
10. huddled - to get close together
11. gripped - hold tightly
12. anxious – worried
1.veteran - a person who has served in the military and fought in a war
2.perform - carries out, act on
3.combat - to fight or to battle
4.enforce - insist on, to make sure it happens
5.assist - to help
6.sergeant - an officer in the Army
7.searchlights - large lights that look in the sky
8.shatter - to break into small pieces
9.cushion - verb) to soften, (noun) like a pillow
10.sprain - to hurt a muscle by twisting it
11.incredible - hard to believe
1. towering - high
2. settle - to set up house
3.trading post - a store where someone can change one thing for another
4. herd - a group of cows, buffalo, ...
5. quench - to satisfy your thirst by drinking
6. settler - pioneer
7. pause - stop
8. thirst - need for liquids
9. wilderness - wild country
10. migration - movement to a new place
11. creatures - animals
12. conquer - take over
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Daily Oral Language Test on FRIDAY! |
D.O.L. = Daily Oral Language - Find the mistakes in punctuation and grammar.
1.it was nice in our village. Till the night in october when the soldiers come
2.my mother hided my little sister and i under the bed
3.when i peered out i could see my mothers feet in there black slippers and the great muddy boots of the soldiers
4.why i asked because we do not think the way they think my son my father said
See corrections below:
1.It was nice in our village until the night in October when the soldiers came.
2.My mother hid my little sister and me under the bed.
3.When i peered out, I could see my mother’s feet in their black slippers and the great, muddy boots of the soldiers.
4.“Why?” I asked.
“Because we do not think the way they think, my son,” my father said.
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Reading Comprehension and Grammar Practice |
*Vocabulary and definitions
*Vocabulary practice
*Practicing proper grammatical sentence writing.
*Finding the main idea of paragraphs.
*Finding details to support the main ideas.
**Using prediction.
*Using pronouns and possessives.
*Finding problems and solutions in the story and sequencing them.
*Writing a thank you letter. The students will assume a character in the story and write a thank you letter to one of the Americans
*Studying routes taken by immigrants to the U.S.
*Studying and answering questions to charts
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