Transcript LOST CITY The Discovery of Machu Picchu

LOST CITY
The Discovery of
Machu Picchu
By Ted Lewin
Compiled by:
 Terry Sams PES
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Summary
Professor Hiram Bingham goes on
a journey to Peru to find the lost
city of Machu Picchu. With the
help of a farmer named Arteaga
and a Quechua boy, Bingham
finds something unexpected -- the
beautiful city of Machu Picchu
sitting among the clouds.
Question of the Week
What
surprises can
happen on an
expedition?
Review Questions
1. Why might so few people have known
about the ruins?
2. What might have happened before the
boy had a dream about the stranger?
3. What did Bingham see after he found the
sun temple?
4. Make a generalization about the Incas
from what you have learned in this story.
5. Why did the author include the boy’s
thoughts?
Review Questions
1. What did the boy call the camera? Why?
2. What is the main idea of the selection?
3. How was the author’s search for the
ruins different from Bingham’s?
4. How would you describe the journey to
Machu Picchu?
5. How are Cusco and the first capital of the
Inca alike? Different?
Vocabulary - Say It
curiosity thickets
glorious torrent
ruins
granite
terraced
torrent

a violent, rushing
stream of water
thickets
bushes
or
small trees
growing
close
together
curiosity
an
eager desire
to know or learn
terraced
•formed into a flat, level
land with steep sides;
terraces are often made in
hilly areas to create more
space for farming
glorious
magnificent;
splendid
ruins
what
is left after a
building, wall, etc.,
has fallen to pieces
granite
a
very hard gray or pink rock
that is formed when lava cools
slowly underground
Archeologists have
curiosity about
people who lived long
ago.
Archeologists have
curiosity about
people who lived long
ago.
They had to cut their
way through jungles
with thickets full of
dangerous animals.
They had to cut their
way through jungles
with thickets
full of
dangerous
animals.
Professor Bingham
discovered the lost
ruins of Machu
Picchu.
Professor Bingham
discovered the lost
ruins of Machu
Picchu.
What looks like
rocks to us might
be a glorious
sight to
a scientist.
What looks like
rocks to us might
be a glorious
sight to
a scientist.
The terraced fields
on the side of the
mountain were for
growing crops.
The terraced fields on
the side of the
mountain were
for growing
crops.
Granite cliffs rose
thousands of feet
above the
river.
Granite cliffs rose
thousands of feet
above the
river.
They had to cross
mountain rivers
that fall in a raging
torrent.
They had to cross
mountain rivers
that fall in
a raging
torrent.
Spelling Words
Syllable Patterns v/cv and vc/v
When the vowel sound in the first
syllable is long, divide after the vowel.
basic
local
secret
beware
locust
emotion
vacant
tiger
tripod
donate
Spelling Words
Syllable Patterns v/cv and vc/v
When the vowel sound in the first syllable is
short, divide after the consonant.
honor
second
lizard
habit
spinach
olive
novel
cabin
tribute
dragon