Unit 2 Week 2

The Solar SystemStory: The Night of the

Pomegranate

STRATEGY

• You must generate questions in order to understand what you are reading better. By generating questions you will begin to make inferences about the characters and the plot.

SKILL: MAKE INFERENCES

• You can use story clues and prior knowledge to make logical connections that are not directly stated by the author. You should be able to mak inferences about story events and the main characters’ actions by the end of the story.

Spicy(adj)

Seasoned with a spice

such as pepper or cinnamon.

I love spicy food.

Broadcast: (noun)

Information or entertainment sent out by

radio or television.The broadcast came over the

news of a large meteorite coming to earth.

Unsatisfactory (adj)

not good enough

The student turned in an assignment that was Unsatisfactory, and she received a bad grade.

Calculations:(verb)

the process of figuring out

something using mathematics.

Through the astronomer’s calculations, he located a new

star.

Undone(verb)

Unfastened, untied, open

The girls string art became undone and she had to

start all over.

VigilVigil: (verb)

The act or period of remaining awake to guard or

observe.Mary was very vigil, when she

stayed at her little brothersside as he battled his illness.

Ravaged: (verb)

Laid waste to, destroyed.

The meteorite ravaged the planet.

Marveled: (verb)

To become filled with wonder or astonishment.

Henry marveled at our beautiful Solar System.

STORY WORDS

• Bristol board: cardboard with a smooth surface

• Prickly ash: a shrub or small tree with yellowish flowers

• Juniper: and evergreen shrub or tree or the cypress family

• Taurus, Pleiades, Hyades: Taurus is a constellation that contains the star clusters Pleides and Hyades. It is represented by bull’s forequarters.