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our changing eather is the result of a continuous battle between large

bodies of air called air masses masses of cold air and masses of warm air

push each other back and forth across the land.

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PyramidsFrom Kids Discover

Team Cooperation Goal

Explain Your Ideas/Tell Why

Title: PyramidsReading Goal: Main Idea and Supporting DetailsTeam Cooperation Goal: Explain Your Ideas/Tell WhyGenre: ExpositoryAuthor: From Kids Discover

concealed: hidThe baby concealed himself from his

mother, he hid from her under his bed.

massive: enormousJoanna reserved the massive ballroom for her wedding reception, it was enormous!

security: safetyThe police officer’s job was to make sure there was security

during the game, he ensured safety for all the fans.

inspired: encouragedRhea explained that she loved reading the poems about nature

because they inspired her to write her own poems, she felt encouraged by other peoples’ writing.

valuable: of great worthJudy took special care of her valuable

jewelry, it was of great worth.

connected: joinedThe railroad connected the two cities, it

joined them together.

Review Vocabulary with Partner

Can you say it?Can you define it?Can you say it in a sentence?

Vocabulary Vault

Let’s continue to read this book and try to listen if there are clues as to what the text structures are

so far in this book.

•Living in the troposphere, we feel the weather in the temperature of the air•Tropo means change•Weather is what's happening at the bottom of the atmosphere.

Living on planet Earth there are different types of weather

happening

WeatherThe sun not warming

the Earth evenly

•The atmosphere lets the sunlight pass through.•Sunlight heats the ground•The heat warms the surface that dissipates toward the atmosphere•This is called the greenhouse effect

How do we know that the Earth is actually getting hotter due to the Greenhouse Effect?

•At the equator, it is hotter since it is closest to the sun•The unequal heating of the earth sets the atmosphere in motion•Exchange of the warm and cold air between the equator creates the atmospheric patterns

Earth’s atmosphere is driven by the Sun’s

heat

Nothing in the earth is simple

•Earth spins rapidly from East to West•The irregular spin of the Earth, differing amounts of water and air create the wind patterns.•They create the jet streams

•Forests and trees absorb most of the sun’s energy that falls on them•Water warms up and cools off much more slowly than does land•Oceans and other large bodies of water store heat from sunlight and release it slowly

Many other things affect air temperature and weather

conditions Weather

•Cold fronts move more rapidly •When a cold front nears, cold air forms a wedge and pushes the warm air up•Clouds form and rain or snow falls

How do we know that the Earth is actually getting hotter due to the Greenhouse Effect?

The weather of a region changes

sharply every time a front and air mass

pass over.

Pyramids

Text Structures• Pyramids is also divided into sections and

headings that help you as a reader figure out main ideas and supporting details.

• Usually texts in this format are expository. • There are many pictures• There are captions attached to pictures

Presidents

Where exactly in the world are the pyramids located?

The Pyramids of Egypt How the pyramids started

•Early Egytians buried under piles of rocks•Mastabas were tombs made of sunbaked mud•Imhotep created the stone pyramid•Around 2500 B.C. the greate pyramid at Giza was erected

Only in EgyptMaster Builders

•The oldest stone building in the world.•The biggest pyramids is taller than a 40 story building.•More than 80 pyramids still stand today.

•The tools they used included chisels, mallets, saws and drills

•The Nile was used to transport the stone to the pyramid sites•They used limestone, sandstone and granite to build the pyramids•The Nile served as a “barrier” to invaders

What a good question to ask a “friendly” who just happened to

walk in?

How did the master builders build the pyramids?

Team Talk Questions

1. Why did the tomb robbers want to figure out the tricks of the pyramids? (Write)

2. What did the Egyptians do to the bodies of dead pharaohs? Why did they do this? (Write)

3. Why do people study mummies from ancient Egypt?

Partner Read- 15 minutesWrite 2 unfamiliar words in your journalRead and restate pages 316-319Discuss with team words you clarified Find vocabulary wordsIf done early with your reading, work on filling

in your tree map

Tree Map

• Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section

• Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea

Team Discussion-15minutes

• Discuss answers to team talk questions• Team Talk procedures will be up!• Write answers to question 2 and 3

#2Reads the Question

#3Answers the

Question

#4Agrees or disagrees with evidence from

the text

#1Summarizes what

the groups discussed

Class Discussion

• What words did your group clarify?• How were the words clarified?

Writing Adventures- 15 min

Pretend that you are a scientist studying mummies and pyramids. What 3 questions do

you have about ancient Egypt? How do you think you can get the answers to these

questions? What discoveries would you have to make to answer your questions?

Scoring Guide

You answer the question 25 pointsYour answer explains or describeswith at least two details 25 pointsYour answer makes sense and hasPart of the question in it 20 pointsYour answer is written in complete,correct sentences 20 pointsYour writing has correct capitalizationand punctuation 10 points

Vocabulary Practice-10 min

• Divide your words with partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

Fluency – 5 min

• Page 309 or 315 or 318

Fluency Rubric

100 points ExpressivenessSmoothnessRate and correctness

90 points SmoothnessRate and correctness

80 points Rate and correctness70 points Correctness