the california gold rush by elizabeth van steenwyk open court reading unit 6 lesson 6 word knowledge...
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The California Gold Rush
By Elizabeth Van SteenwykOpen Court Reading
Unit 6 Lesson 6Word Knowledge and Vocabulary
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Word KnowledgeGrade 4, Unit 6 – Lesson 6
These words have the suffix –er.Line 1: trapper settler owner rancherThe suffix –er means “a person or thing that performs the action of”
All of these words contain short vowel soundsLine 2: established citizenship product unimpressede, a, i, o, u
Root wordsLine 3: applied frenzied copies discoveriesThe root words end with y and the y was changed to i
All these words contain the comparative and superlative endings –er and -estLine 4: noisier curlier speediest liveliestWhat adjectives were these endings added to ?
Sentence 1: The owner of the Star was an enterprising man.
Sentence 2: They had followed trails established by trappers.
Sentence 3: Sutter applied for Mexican citizenship.
Sentence 4: Even the speediest boat trip to California took months.
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settler
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citizenship
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frenzy
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lively
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Story VocabularyStory Vocabulary
• Em-i-grants
• Per-se-cu-tion
• A-ban-don
• Pros-pec-ting
• Ver-i-fied
Use a variety of skills in the following slides like context clues, apposition, and word structure to determinethe meaning of each word.
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em-i-grants
• Meanwhile, overland emigrants from the United States were starting to arrive in the valley.
• The emigrants wrote to relatives they left in their homeland.
emigrants- people who have left their homeland to settle in a new one
Use context clues, apposition, or word structure
emigrants
Context clues? Prediction ?
Definition ?Part of speech ?
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per-se-cu-tion
• They had sailed around Cape Horn hoping to escape from the religious persecution they had experienced in the East.
• The Pilgrims left England to escape persecution.
Use context clues, apposition, or word structure
persecution
Word Structure? Prediction ?
Definition ?Part of speech ?
persecution- the mistreatment or harassment of a person orgroup of people
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a-ban-don
• They discovered enough to abandon their regular work and begin mining in earnest.
• Settlers would often abandon their houses when they moved westward.
Use context clues, apposition, or word structure
abandon
Context Clues?
Definition ?
synonyms?
Part of speech ?
abandon- to give up something; to stop working on something
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pros-pec-ting
• Those who had already been prospecting displayed their pouches of gold dust as they prepared to dig for more.
• After two weeks of prospecting we still hadn’t found any gold.
Use context clues, apposition, or word structure
prospecting- searching for gold or some other valuable productprospecting
Context clues? Prediction ?
Definition ?Part of speech ?
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ver-i-fied
• He said that the news of California’s gold discovery had been verified.
• I called Grandma and verified that she had received the package I sent.
Use context clues, apposition, or word structure
verified
You create your own Circle Map. Use the skills that you’ve been taught this week.
verified- declared real, authentic, or true
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