Unit 2 Week 4
"Good-Bye to the Moon"
Reading:compare: to show how two or more things are alike; clue words such as "like" or "as" show similarities
contrast: to hightlight the differences between two or more things; clue words such as "however" or "yet" show differences story structure: the way in which a story is organized, such as events in the plot that lead up to a climax, characters that develop and change, or a theme that gradually unfolds flashback: an interruption in the chronological order of a story to show an event that happened earlier; flashbacks may give background, show how something in the past influences a character's actions or feelings in the present, or explain how a past event brought about the present one |
Vocabulary:combustion: act or process of burning
dingy: lacking brightness or freshness; dirty-looking negotiate: to talk over and arrange terms traversed: passed across, over, or through waft: a breath or puff of air, wind, scent waning: becoming gradually smaller or less visible, as the moon does regularly |
Conventions: |
Spelling:the Schwa sound
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