FROM THE BOOK SING DOWN THE MOON BY: SCOTT O’DELL The Coming of Long Knives Patti Burroughs,...

FROM THE BOOK SING DOWN THE MOONBY: SCOTT O’DELL

The Coming of Long Knives

Patti Burroughs, Greensboro West Elementary

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Objectives:

Students will recognize antonyms to help them determine the meaning and increase vocabulary.

Students will recognize and read words , demonstrating knowledge of levels of specificity among words from a variety of categories.


Students will recognize and read words that change f or fe to v in their plural forms.

Students will recognize and spell words with the ending –tion.

Students will understand the selection vocabulary before reading the story for the first time. Patti Burroughs, Greensboro West Elementary

Genre: Historical Fiction

The story is set in the past.

The plot includes events or problems from that time.

Characters act the way people of that time would have acted.


Details relating to clothing, homes, speech, modes of transportation, or tools are correct for that time and place and help make the story more realistic.

Though the story is made up, the characters may include real people, and the plot may include actual events.


Read the following words and tell me what they have

in common.

harm help

strength weakness

fast slowThese words are antonym pairs.


What is an antonym?

An antonym is a word whose meaning is the opposite or nearly the opposite of another word.



in common.peopleAmericansNavahovegetableplantscorn

The first three words demonstrate levels of specificity. Americans and Navaho are both specific kinds of people.


Look at the next three words again….

VegetablePlantscorn

Who can name a word that would come next in the level of specificity.

kernelPatti Burroughs, Greensboro West Elementary

Read the following words and tell me what they have in

common.

knife kniveslife livesleaf leaves

The first word in each pair is singular. The second word in each set is plural. You had to change the f or fe to v before making it plural.



in common.

directiondestructionstarvationduration

These words review the word ending –tion.


Read the following sentence:

I worked to help homeless animals.What would happen to the sentence if I replaced help with harm?The meaning of the sentence changes because help and harm are antonyms.



Bright Morning, a fourteen-year-old Navaho girl, lives with her family in what is now Arizona.

Using the word Arizona, what other words can we use in the sentence that is less specific or maybe more specific.

United States

Phoenix Patti Burroughs, Greensboro

West Elementary


The leaves are gone from the trees.

What are the two plural words in this sentence?leave

s

treesHow were these plurals formed?


Name some other words that end in f or fe that we have to change to a v to

make plural.

half / halves

shelf / shelveswife /

wivesPatti Burroughs, Greensboro West Elementary

Read the following words and tell me what they have in

common.

I lost my sense of direction while in the woods.

Who can identify the word in this sentence that contains the suffix –tion?Who remembers the

meaning of this word?

direction


Use your context clues.

hogan

The Navajo family lives in a hogan on the reservation.

“We will build new homes,” he said. “When the Long Knives leave we will go into the forest and cut timber. We will build hogans that are better than those the soldiers burned.”


a traditional Navaho house

noun: hogan

(p. 447)

abandon

When the gold mines dried up, many people abandoned the towns that no longer had a reason to exist in that location.

I would have gone with them if I had thought that in a few days the Long Knives would leave and we would come back to our village. I would never have abandoned them.


to leave something behind forever (p. 449)

abandonverb

deserted

The tall weeds in the yard, the broken windows, and the hole in the roof was a sign to us that the building was deserted.

Once they got off their horses and two of them climbed up to Rainbow Cave where cliff dwellers had lived long ago. But they found the houses deserted.


not lived in, abandoned (p. 450)deserted adjecti

ve

secure

Our liberty is secure because many brave people have fought to defend our civil rights.

The white soldiers had searched the canyon and found no trace of us. We felt secure.


secure

safe from harm or danger (p. 452)

adjective

captivity

Douglas Wood, an engineer who lives in California with his American wife, is being held in captivity by terrorists in Iraq where he has been working.

With the Long Knives at their backs…all the Navahos were marching into captivity.


noun captivitythe state of being held as a prisoner (p. 449)

Fort Sumner 1864 - 1868

Websites of interest:

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/native_american3.html

http://www.citizensalliance.org/links/pages/articles/Expose_Part_1.html


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