4.1 Reading- Day 1

Weekly Concept: Changing Environments
Essential Question: How do people meet environmental challenges?
Objective: You will be able cite textual evidence and use evidence to help you make inferences. 
Vocabulary Words: this week for each vocabulary word, we will define the word, draw a picture representation, find synonyms and use it in our own sentence. 
Today, we will review the word and define it as a class.
  • alignment
  • calamity
  • eclipse
  • generated
  • inconvenience
  • periodic
  • prolonged
  • tenacity

Essential Question- 

Have you read any articles or watched any news stories that talk about the changes we are seeing in our environment?

Listening Comprehension- 4.1 Assessing the Great Lakes.pdf Download 4.1 Assessing the Great Lakes.pdf 

People often make changes in the environment in order to live successfully in an area. We will be reading aloud a passage that explains how people in the 1800s changed the environment by building canals to link the Great Lakes to ocean-bound rivers.