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Unit 6 Week 1
Essential Question:How do you decide what's important?
Comprehension Strategy: make, confirm and revise predictions
Comprehension Skill: theme
Vocabulary Strategy: root words
Writing Traits: sentence fluency
Grammar: adjectives and articles a, an, the
Other Skills: commas in dates and in a series
Genre: myth/drama
This weeks stories!
Carlos's Gift
King Mida and the Golden Touch
Athena and Arachne
Vocab Words
wealth: a great amount of money or valuable things
alarmed: afraid or frightened
anguish: agony, or a great suffering of the mind
necessary: required or needs to be done
obsessed: to think about one thing all the time and nothing else
possess: to have or own something
reward: something given or received in return for something done
treasure: money, jewels, or other things that are valuable
Unit 6 Week 1
Essential Question:How do you decide what's important?
Comprehension Strategy: make, confirm and revise predictions
Comprehension Skill: theme
Vocabulary Strategy: root words
Writing Traits: sentence fluency
Grammar: adjectives and articles a, an, the
Other Skills: commas in dates and in a series
Genre: myth/drama
This weeks stories!
Carlos's Gift
King Mida and the Golden Touch
Athena and Arachne
Vocab Words
wealth: a great amount of money or valuable things
alarmed: afraid or frightened
anguish: agony, or a great suffering of the mind
necessary: required or needs to be done
obsessed: to think about one thing all the time and nothing else
possess: to have or own something
reward: something given or received in return for something done
treasure: money, jewels, or other things that are valuable