: Author: Fred Gipson : Genre: Historical Fiction Big Question: How can we help protect those we love? Story Sort Vocabulary Words: Arcade Games Arcade Games Study Stack Study Stack Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling City: Vocabulary Spelling City: Spelling Words Spelling City: Spelling Words answered answering traveled traveling chopped chopping qualified qualifying panicked panicking interfered interfering omitted omitting magnified magnifying patrolled patrolling skied skiing mimicked mimicking dignified dignifying staggered staggering K (What do you know?) W (What would you like to learn?) L (What did you learn?) lunging moving forward suddenly; thrusting nub a lump or a small piece romping playing roughly in a boisterous wayromping rowdy rough; disorderly; quarrelsome slung thrown, cast, or hurled; threw speckled spotted; marked with many small spotsspeckled chaparral a dense thicket of low busheschaparral poultice a soft moist mass of mustard, herbs, and other substances applied to the bodypoultice squawling crying; bawling (Next Slide) (Next Slide) romping speckled nub slung lunging rowdy chaparral poultice answered answering traveled traveling chopped chopping qualified qualifying panicked panicking interfered interfering omitted omitting magnified magnifying patrolled patrolling skied skiing mimicked mimicking dignified dignifying staggered staggering Turn to page 32, first two paragraphs. Read these paragraphs three times with a partner. Be sure to read with proper emotion. Offer each other feedback. The setting is very important to the events in some stories, while it may be unimportant in other stories. In general, the more a setting is described and the more the characters interact with the setting, the more important the setting is to the plot. Point of view is the perspective from which an author presents the actions and characters in a story. The two main points of view are first person (the narrator is a character in the story) and third person (the narrator is not a character in the story). In first-person point of view, the narrator refers to himself or herself as I. In third-person point of view, the narrator refers to all the characters, including himself or herself, as he, she, or they. You can use base words and word endings to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Identify the base word and ending of each italicized word in the chart. They use context clues, and if necessary, a dictionary to determine each words meaning. Graphic organizers have many uses. A KWL chart is a three-column chart in which you list what you know, what you want to know, and what you learned about a topic. A web diagram is a group of connected circles or ovals. It is used to highlight a central concept and connect it to related details. A Venn diagram consists of two overlapping circles or ovals. It is used to compare and contrast topics. A time line shows a series of dates and events in chronological order. Dates Events A T-chart is an open, two-column chart. It is often used to explore or compare two topics.