Essential Question: How can learning about natural disasters help make us safer?
Week 1
Holes
Reading Skill: Text structures and writing poetry
Grammar Skill: Direct and indirect objects
Generative vocabulary: Greek roots graph and gram; Latin roots rupt and fer
Reading Skill: Text structures and writing poetry
Grammar Skill: Direct and indirect objects
Generative vocabulary: Greek roots graph and gram; Latin roots rupt and fer
Week 2
Quaking Earth, Racing Waves
Reading Skill: Summarize and central idea
Grammar Skill: Review of conjunctions and compound sentences
Generative vocabulary: Suffixes -logy and -logist
Reading Skill: Summarize and central idea
Grammar Skill: Review of conjunctions and compound sentences
Generative vocabulary: Suffixes -logy and -logist
Week 3
Hurricanes: The Science Behind Killer Storms
Reading Skill: Review text structure, text features, and main idea
Grammar Skill: Complex Sentences
Generative vocabulary: Prefixes inter-, con-, com-, cor-
Reading Skill: Review text structure, text features, and main idea
Grammar Skill: Complex Sentences
Generative vocabulary: Prefixes inter-, con-, com-, cor-