Unit 5 - Adventures!
In
the fifth reading unit for the year we will be discussing the Big Idea question, Who goes seeking an adventure and why?
We will discuss various adventurers and explorers and the tools that
they used along their travels. Students will also contemplate how
technology can be used to help adventurers reach new places, learn
about an astronaut's journey, and learn about the westward expansion of
the United States during the gold rush! Wow! What a
tremendous amount of interesting information this unit. :)
| Week | Story | Genre | Skill | Vocabulary |
| 1 | The Three-Century Woman | Humorous Fiction | Character and Plot | eerie intersection pondered severe spectacles withered |
| 2 | The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic | Narrative Nonfiction | Graphic Sources | cramped debris intereior ooze robotic sediment sonar |
| 3 | Talk with an Astronaut | Interview | Author's Purpose | accomplishments focus gravity monitors role specific |
| 4 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Science Fiction | Cause and Effect | armor encases extinct hideous plunged serpent |
| 5 | Ghost Towns of the American West | Expository Nonfiction | Generalize | economic independence overrun scrawled vacant |
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