Transcript We, the People of the United States

Open Court - Fifth Grade
Unit 4 - Making a New Nation
Lesson 5
We, the People
of the United
States
from The American Revolutionaries; A History in Their Own
Words 1750-1800
by Milton
Meltzer Vocabulary
Word Knowledge
and Selection
A presentation by Claire Stoermer- Fruitvale
School - Oakland
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Word Knowledge
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• sovereignty autocracy
domestic
foreign
old new
antonym pairs
words that mean the thing
same or nearly the same
•His foreign policy was excellent; however, his
domestic policy was lacking.
Can you think of more antonym pairs?
• needed
weeks
speeches
fleets
long e sound spelled ee
•They needed weeks to write their
speeches.
Can you think of more words that use this
spelling for the long e sound?
• presided
create
approaching
obstruction
consonant -r blends
in a blend, you can still hear BOTH sounds
•The approaching car created a lot of
noise.
List more words that
contain
consonant
-r
blends.
Remember the blend doesn’t have to be
at the beginning of the word.
• presiding
prepared
derived
securing
urging
drop the final -e before
adding a word ending
•The presiding judge is urging the defense
layer to keep her defense short.
Can you identify the root words?
Can you list more words where the final -e is
dropped before adding a word ending?
Selection
Vocabulary
preamble
diplomacy
ratification
despotism
constituent
preamble
•Here is the preamble which consists of two
brief parts.
Jan’s report began with a long preamble.
the section of text at the
beginning of a law
document that states why
the document was written
diplomacy
•But on the floor and off, he stressed the need
for compassion and humility with that homely
charm and wit that had made him so great an
asset in diplomacy.
The former president, who was known for his
diplomacy, united the warring countries.
the handling of
relations between
nations
ratification
•When the delegate reached a final draft,
Franklin spoke to them, urging all to sign it.
They would exert the most decisive influence
during the ratification debate in the states.
The ratification of the new law reduced our
taxes.
the formal approval
of law or laws
despotism
•...I believe further that this is likely to be well
administered for a course of years, and can only
end in despotism, as other forms have done before
it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to
need despotic government, being incapable of any
Iother.
cannot imagine living under despotism because
I have lived under a democratic government all
my life.
a system of
government in which
one ruler has all the
power
constituent
•If every one of us in returning to our constituents
were to report the objections he has had to it, and
use his influence to gain partisans in support of
them, we might prevent its being generally
The
local government polled thousands of
received...
constituents to gather information about the hopes
and thoughts of people.
a voter in a particular
area
Vocabulary Quiz
1.__________ a voter in a particular area
2.__________ the formal approval of
law or laws
3.__________ the section of text at the
beginning of a law document that states why
the document was written
4.__________ the handling of relations
between nations
5.__________ a system of government in which
one ruler has all of the power