4.1 Reading- Day 3
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, review definitions for vocabulary. Use each new word in a sentence.
- alignment
- calamity
- eclipse
- generated
- inconvenience
- periodic
- prolonged
- tenacity
Read: In the large Wonders book (or online), find the story, "Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl" on page 256.
- We will be reading about how changes in the environment can cause disasters.
- Predict how the selection will help them answer the Essential Question.
- As you listen to the story, think of details that would help you find what the author's point of view is.