Unit 3 Week 1
"Hatchet"
Reading:
sequence: the order of a story's events; clue words include, "first," "next," "then," "last," and "finally"
background knowledge: what you already know about a topic from your reading or you own real-life experiences personification: a figure of speech in which human traits are given to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas; the tree danced in the breeze |
Vocabulary:hatchet: a small axe with a short handle, for use with one hand
ignite: to set on fire painstaking: very careful; particular; diligent quill: a stiff, sharp hair or spine, like the pointed end of a feather registered: to have had some effect; to have made an impression smoldered: burned and smoke without flame stiffened: to have been made or have become rigid; fixed |
Conventions:Principal Parts of Regular Verbs
Remember the simple verb tenses... past tense: usually ends in "-ed" (walked), but there are MANY irregular ones (ran, ate, sang) present tense: I walk, she walks future tene: I will walk Present Participle: linking verb + verb ending in "-ing" I am walking. She was walking. *Linking Verbs *= is, am, was, were, are, be, being, been Past Participle: has/have/had + verb ending in "-ed" I had walked. She has walked. We have walked. |
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