Transcript The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

Country Life
Unit 6 Lesson 1
From Aesop‘s Fables
By Heidi Holder
Word Knowledge Unit 6,
Lesson
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tortured scurried endured feared
What do these word have in common?
Vivid verbs which paint a mental picture.
sensible credible collection
What do these words have in common?
Suffix –ble which means inclined to
Word Knowledge Unit 6,
Lesson 1
dullness richness daintiness shabbiness
plainness
What do these word have in common? What
happened in daintiness and shabbiness?
Words end in suffix –ness which means state
of being. Change the y to i.
Word Knowledge Unit 6,
Lesson 1
mice
lives
deer
sheep wolves
What do these words have in common?
Plurals, some irregular and f or fe to ves.
Which words changed f or fe to ves?
Life to lives and wolf to wolves.
Fluency
You can’t really prefer these
empty fields to streets teeming with carriages
and men!
Sentence 2:
An honest, plain, sensible
Country Mouse invited her city friend for a visit.
Sentence 3: How can you endure the fullness
of your life here, with nothing but woods and
meadows, mountains and brooks about?
Identify the vivid verbs?
Teeming, endure
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Fluency
You can’t really prefer these
empty fields to streets teeming with carriages
and men!
Sentence 2:
An honest, plain, sensible
Country Mouse invited her city friend for a visit.
Sentence 3: How can you endure the fullness
of your life here, with nothing but woods and
meadows, mountains and brooks about?
Identify the words with a suffix.
Sensible, dullness
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Fluency
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Farm sheep can lose
their lives to predators like wolves.
Which word is an irregular plural?
Sheep
Which words change f or fe to ves?
Lives, wolves
Vocabulary
Sensible
• An honest, plain, sensible country mouse
invited her city friend for a visit.
• The sensible girl had packed lightly but
was prepared for all types of weather.
• Sensible adjective
• Having or showing good sense
• Synonym: wise, rational
• Antonym: foolish, absurd, insensible
Morsel
• There was not a morsel that she did not
bring forth out of her larder.
• The bird pecked at a morsel of bread that
was lying on the sidewalk.
Morsel
• Tiny bit; a small portion
noun
• Synonym: snack, bite, crumb, scrap
• Antonym: whole,
quantity
• She hoped by quantity to make up for
what she feared was wanting in quality,
eating nothing herself, lest her guest
should not have enough.
• The display case featured a large quantity
of hand made desserts.
quantity
• A number or amount. Noun page 198
• Synonym: scad, heap, multitude
• Antonym: few, handful
condescending
• The City Mouse, condescending to pick a
bit here and a bit there at length
exclaimed, “My dear, please let me speak
freely to you.”
• The sister treated her brother in a
condescending way by acting as if she
knew more than he did.
condescending
• With an attitude of superiority, acting so
proud of oneself that others may get their
feelings hurt.
• Adjective page 199
• Synonym: stoop, high horse
• Antonym: polite, friendly
splendid
• Here were couches of crimson, velvet,
ivory carvings, and on the table were the
remains of a splendid banquet.
• The princess wore a splendid crown
decorated with lots of colored jewels.
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Magnificent, glorious
Adjective, page 200
Synonym: extraordinary, superb, glorious
Antonym: unimpressive, common ordinary
Scurried
• The frightened friends scurried for the first
corner they could find.
• The spider scurried quickly across the
windowpane.
scurried
• Moved quickly as if in a great hurry;
moved all in a flutter
• Verb, page 201
• Synonym: run, scuttle, dart
• Antonym: walk, ramble, stroll
spelling
• Take out white boards pre test
• Deer, geese, fish, wolves, leaves, loaves,
scarves, selves, shelves, calves, sheep,
shrimp, wives, mice, lives.
Commas in a Series
• A comma is used to separate items in a
series when there are at least three items.
• Example: My favorite colors are blue,
green, and yellow.
• He should have had fish, fresh vegetables,
whole wheat bread, fresh fruit, and milk.
• Let’s practice.
Practice
• 1. For lunch Clyde had a hamburger
potato chips and a coke.
• 2. As soon as I get out of bed I shower
brush my teeth and comb my hair.
• 3. the lost boy was cold hungry and
afraid.
• 4. On our vacation we traveled through
Oregon Washington Idaho and Wyoming.
Test
• 1. Stuffed animals dolls trains and games
lined the shelves of the toy shop.
• 2. Each morning before school Clyde has
to take out the garbage feed his dog and
clean up his room.
• 3. The book contained stories about
ghosts goblins werewolves and mummies.
Commas in a Letter
• Use commas after the greeting and the
closing.
• Use commas between day and year.
• Use commas between city and state.
• Example: Feb. 21,2009
• Dear Mike, Ceres, California Sincerely,
Add commas where needed in the
letter.
• Modesto California
• March 6 2009
• Dear Chris
• It’s hard to believe that a week of my
vacation has already gone by. Everyday
we go sailing.
• Sincerely
• Mike